Multifunctional Superconducting Nanowire Quantum Sensors

Lawrie, Benjamin; Marvinney, Claire; Pai, Yun-Yi; Feldman, Matthew; Zhang, Jie; Miller, Aaron; Hua, Chengyun; Dumitrescu, Eugene; Halasz, Gabor

doi:10.1103/physrevapplied.16.064059

Title: Multifunctional Superconducting Nanowire Quantum Sensors

Journal Article · 22 December 2021 · Physical Review Applied

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.16.064059 · OSTI ID:1837875

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Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Quantum Opus, LLC, Novi, MI (United States)

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) offer high-quantum-efficiency and low-dark-count-rate single-photon detection. In a growing number of cases, large magnetic fields are being incorporated into quantum microscopes, nanophotonic devices, and sensors for nuclear and high-energy physics that rely on SNSPDs, but superconducting devices generally perform poorly in large magnetic fields. Here, we demonstrate robust performance of amorphous SNSPDs in magnetic fields of up to ±6 T with a negligible dark-count rate and unchanged quantum efficiency at typical bias currents. Critically, we also show that the SNSPD can be used as a magnetometer with a sensitivity of better than 100μT/√Hz and as a thermometer with a sensitivity of 20μK/√Hz at 1 K. Thus, a single-photon detector integrated into a quantum device can be used as a multifunctional quantum sensor capable of describing the temperature and magnetic field on chip simply by varying the bias current to change the operating modality from single-photon detection to thermometry or magnetometry.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1837875

Journal Information:: Physical Review Applied, Journal Name: Physical Review Applied Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 16; ISSN 2331-7019

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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