A Superconducting-Nanowire 3-Terminal Electronic Device by McCaughan, Adam N., Berggren, Karl K.

“…We have additionally applied it both as a digital logic element in a half-adder circuit, and as a digital amplifier for superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors pulses. The nanocryotron has immediate applications in classical and quantum communications, photon sensing, and astronomy, and its input characteristics are suitable for integration with existing superconducting technologies.…”
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Pyroelectric influence on lithium niobate during the thermal transition for cryogenic integrated photonics by Frederik Thiele, Thomas Hummel, Nina Amelie Lange, Felix Dreher, Maximilian Protte, Felix vom Bruch, Sebastian Lengeling, Harald Herrmann, Christof Eigner, Christine Silberhorn, Tim J Bartley

“…However, integrating single-photon detectors requires cryogenic operating temperatures, since the best performing detectors are based on narrow superconducting wires. …”
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Fabrication of superconducting nanowires from ultrathin MgB2 films via focused ion beam milling by Chen Zhang, Da Wang, Zheng-Hao Liu, Yan Zhang, Ping Ma, Qing-Rong Feng, Yue Wang, Zi-Zhao Gan

“…The high Tc, narrow ΔTc, and high Jc of the nanowires offered the possibility of making MgB2-based nano-devices such as hot-electron bolometers and superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors with high operating temperatures at 15-20 K.…”
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Computational 3D and reflectivity imaging with high photon efficiency by Shin, Dongeek, Kirmani, Ahmed, Shapiro, Jeffrey H., Goyal, Vivek K.

“…Conventionally, even with single-photon detectors, hundreds of photon detections are needed at each pixel to mitigate Poisson noise. …”
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A scalable multi-photon coincidence detector based on superconducting nanowires by Zhu, Di, Zhao, Qing-Yuan, Choi, Hyeongrak, Lu, Tsung-Ju, Dane, Andrew E, Englund, Dirk, Berggren, Karl K

“…Coincidence detection of single photons is crucial in numerous quantum technologies and usually requires multiple time-resolved single-photon detectors. However, the electronic readout becomes a major challenge when the measurement basis scales to large numbers of spatial modes. …”
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Quantum dynamics of single-photon detection using functionalized quantum transport electronic channels by Catalin D. Spataru, François Léonard

“…Single-photon detectors have historically consisted of macroscopic-sized materials but recent experimental and theoretical progress suggests new approaches based on nanoscale and molecular electronics. …”
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Nondestructive photon counting in waveguide QED by Daniel Malz, J. Ignacio Cirac

“…Number-resolving single-photon detectors represent a key technology for a host of quantum optics protocols, but despite significant efforts, state-of-the-art devices are limited to few photons. …”
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Single photon detection and manipulation in photonic integrated circuits by Yanikgonul, Salih

“…To date, reports of waveguide-coupled single-photon detectors have been limited to operation at infrared telecommunication wavelengths. …”
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High-Quality Ferromagnetic Josephson Junctions Based on Aluminum Electrodes by Antonio Vettoliere, Roberta Satariano, Raffaella Ferraiuolo, Luigi Di Palma, Halima Giovanna Ahmad, Giovanni Ausanio, Giovanni Piero Pepe, Francesco Tafuri, Davide Massarotti, Domenico Montemurro, Carmine Granata, Loredana Parlato

“…Attention has been also paid to hybrid ferromagnetic Josephson junctions, which allow switching between different magnetic states, making them interesting for applications such as cryogenic memories, single-photon detectors, and spintronics. In this paper, we report on the fabrication and characterization of high-quality ferromagnetic Josephson junctions based on aluminum technology. …”
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Observation of Quantum Fingerprinting Beating the Classical Limit by Guan, Jian-Yu, Xu, Feihu, Yin, Hua-Lei, Li, Yuan, Zhang, Wei-Jun, Chen, Si-Jing, Yang, Xiao-Yan, Li, Li, You, Li-Xing, Chen, Teng-Yun, Wang, Zhen, Zhang, Qiang, Pan, Jian-Wei

“…Ultralow noise superconducting single-photon detectors and a stable fiber-based Sagnac interferometer are used to implement a quantum fingerprinting system that is capable of transmitting less information than the classical proven lower bound over 20 km standard telecom fiber for input sizes of up to 2 Gbits. …”
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Geometry-dependent critical currents in superconducting nanocircuits by Clem, John R., Berggren, Karl K.

“…These results are relevant to superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors, where they suggest a means of improving the bias conditions and reducing dark counts. …”
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High quantum-efficiency photon-number-resolving detector for photonic on-chip information processing. by Calkins, B, Mennea, P, Lita, A, Metcalf, B, Kolthammer, W, Lamas-Linares, A, Spring, J, Humphreys, P, Mirin, R, Gates, J, Smith, P, Walmsley, I, Gerrits, T, Nam, S

“…This waveguide and detector design therefore allows the placement of number-resolving single-photon detectors of predictable efficiency at arbitrary locations within a photonic circuit - a capability that offers great potential for many quantum optical applications.…”

Molecular Platform for Frequency Upconversion at the Single-Photon Level by Philippe Roelli, Diego Martin-Cano, Tobias J. Kippenberg, Christophe Galland

“…One promising approach is frequency upconversion into the visible (VIS) or near-infrared (NIR) domain, where single-photon detectors are readily available. Here, we propose a nanoscale solution based on a molecular optomechanical platform to up-convert photons from the far- and mid-infrared (covering part of the terahertz gap) into the VIS-NIR domain. …”
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Hexaborides: a review of structure, synthesis and processing by James T. Cahill, Olivia A. Graeve

“…Hexaborides are currently used or show promise for a variety of applications such as electron emitters, thermoelectric materials, coatings, single-photon detectors and superconductors. A shared crystal structure amongst all hexaborides permits them to readily form solid solutions, allowing for fine-tuning of electrical, optical and thermal properties with mixed-metal compounds. …”
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All-fiber device for single-photon detection by Yue Dai, Kunpeng Jia, Guanghao Zhu, Hui Li, Yue Fei, Yuqing Guo, Hang Yuan, Hao Wang, Xiaoqing Jia, Qingyuan Zhao, Lin Kang, Jian Chen, Shi-ning Zhu, Peiheng Wu, Zhenda Xie, Labao Zhang

“…For high-performance single-photon detection, superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SPDs) are typically fabricated on a silicon chip and fiber-coupled for easy handling and usage. …”
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Three-Dimensional Imaging via Time-Correlated Single-Photon Counting by Chengkun Fu, Huaibin Zheng, Gao Wang, Yu Zhou, Hui Chen, Yuchen He, Jianbin Liu, Jian Sun, Zhuo Xu

“…The 3D imaging scheme, which is composed of a pulsed laser, a scanning mirror, single-photon detectors, and a time-correlated single-photon counting module, employs time-correlated single-photon counting technology for 3D LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging). …”
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Quantum non-Gaussianity criteria based on vacuum probabilities of original and attenuated state by Jaromír Fiurášek, Lukáš Lachman, Radim Filip

“…We prove that the criteria hold for arbitrary multimode states, which is important for their applicability in experiments with broadband sources and single-photon detectors. Interestingly, our approach allows to detect quantum non-Gaussianity using only one photodetector instead of complex multiplexed photon detection schemes, at the cost of increased experimental time. …”
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A nanocryotron memory and logic family by Buzzi, Alessandro, Castellani, Matteo, Foster, Reed A., Medeiros, Owen, Colangelo, Marco, Berggren, Karl K.

“…These blocks may constitute a solid foundation for the development of nanocryotron logic circuits and finite-state machines with potential applications in the integrated processing and control of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors.…”
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Heralding efficiency and correlated-mode coupling of near-IR fiber-coupled photon pairs by Dixon, P. Ben, Rosenberg, Danna, Stelmakh, Veronika, Grein, Matthew E., Bennink, Ryan S., Dauler, Eric A., Kerman, Andrew J., Molnar, Richard J., Wong, Franco N. C.

“…The use of low-noise, high-efficiency superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors in this setup allowed us to explore focus configurations with low overall photon flux. …”
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Cyclic superconducting refrigerators using guided fluxon propagation by Tathagata Karmakar, Étienne Jussiau, Sreenath K. Manikandan, Andrew N. Jordan

“…Integrating the fluxon fridge to quantum circuits can enhance their coherence time by locally suppressing thermal fluctuations, and improve the efficiency of single photon detectors and charge sensors.…”
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