Non-equilibrium quasiparticles in superconducting circuits: photons vs. phonons

We study the effect of non-equilibrium quasiparticles on the operation of a superconducting device (a qubit or a resonator), including heating of the quasiparticles by the device operation. Focusing on the competition between heating via low-frequency photon absorption and cooling via photon and pho...

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Main Author: Gianluigi Catelani, Denis M. Basko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SciPost 2019-01-01
Series:SciPost Physics
Online Access:https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.6.1.013