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Title: Three-Dimensional Superconducting Resonators at T < 20 mK with Photon Lifetimes up to τ = 2 s

Abstract

Very-high-quality-factor superconducting radio-frequency cavities developed for accelerators can enable fundamental physics searches with orders of magnitude higher sensitivity, and they can also offer a path to a 1000-fold increase in the achievable coherence times for cavity-stored quantum states in three-dimensional circuit QED architecture. Here we report measurements of multiple accelerator cavities of resonant frequencies of f 0 =1.3 , 2.6, 5 GHz down to temperatures of about 10 mK and field levels down to a few photons, which reveal very long photon lifetimes up to 2 s, while also further exposing the role of the two-level systems (TLS) in niobium oxide. We also demonstrate how the TLS contribution can be greatly suppressed by vacuum heat treatments at 340–450 ° C .

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Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1604491
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1615370
Report Number(s):
arXiv:1810.03703; FERMILAB-PUB-18-809-TD
Journal ID: ISSN 2331-7019; PRAHB2; 034032
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review Applied
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review Applied Journal Volume: 13 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Cavity quantum electrodynamics; Quantum information with solid state qubits; Quantum memories; Quantum sensing; Superconducting RF; Superconducting quantum optics; Superconducting qubits; Microwave techniques

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Romanenko, A., Pilipenko, R., Zorzetti, S., Frolov, D., Awida, M., Belomestnykh, S., Posen, S., and Grassellino, A. Three-Dimensional Superconducting Resonators at T < 20 mK with Photon Lifetimes up to τ = 2 s. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.034032.
Romanenko, A., Pilipenko, R., Zorzetti, S., Frolov, D., Awida, M., Belomestnykh, S., Posen, S., & Grassellino, A. Three-Dimensional Superconducting Resonators at T < 20 mK with Photon Lifetimes up to τ = 2 s. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.034032
Romanenko, A., Pilipenko, R., Zorzetti, S., Frolov, D., Awida, M., Belomestnykh, S., Posen, S., and Grassellino, A. Thu . "Three-Dimensional Superconducting Resonators at T < 20 mK with Photon Lifetimes up to τ = 2 s". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.034032.
@article{osti_1604491,
title = {Three-Dimensional Superconducting Resonators at T < 20 mK with Photon Lifetimes up to τ = 2 s},
author = {Romanenko, A. and Pilipenko, R. and Zorzetti, S. and Frolov, D. and Awida, M. and Belomestnykh, S. and Posen, S. and Grassellino, A.},
abstractNote = {Very-high-quality-factor superconducting radio-frequency cavities developed for accelerators can enable fundamental physics searches with orders of magnitude higher sensitivity, and they can also offer a path to a 1000-fold increase in the achievable coherence times for cavity-stored quantum states in three-dimensional circuit QED architecture. Here we report measurements of multiple accelerator cavities of resonant frequencies of f0=1.3, 2.6, 5 GHz down to temperatures of about 10 mK and field levels down to a few photons, which reveal very long photon lifetimes up to 2 s, while also further exposing the role of the two-level systems (TLS) in niobium oxide. We also demonstrate how the TLS contribution can be greatly suppressed by vacuum heat treatments at 340–450 °C.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.034032},
journal = {Physical Review Applied},
number = 3,
volume = 13,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Mar 12 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Thu Mar 12 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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