Graphene-Based Josephson-Junction Single-Photon Detector
Abstract
In this work, we propose to use graphene-based Josephson junctions (GJJs) to detect single photons in a wide electromagnetic spectrum from visible to radio frequencies. Our approach takes advantage of the exceptionally low electronic heat capacity of monolayer graphene and its constricted thermal conductance to its phonon degrees of freedom. Such a system could provide high-sensitivity photon detection required for research areas including quantum information processing and radio astronomy. As an example, we present our device concepts for GJJ single-photon detectors in both the microwave and infrared regimes. The dark count rate and intrinsic quantum efficiency are computed based on parameters from a measured GJJ, demonstrating feasibility within existing technologies.
- Authors:
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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) (Spain). ICFO-Inst. de Ciencies Fotoniques
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States); Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology (POSTECH) (Korea, Republic of)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Raytheon BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); US Office of Naval Research (ONR); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1535767
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1376922
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0001088; N00014-14-1-0349; DMR-1231319
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Applied
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2331-7019
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; electron thermal conductivity; hybrid quantum systems; photonics; quantum measurements; thermal conductivity; graphene; Josephson junctions; photon counting
Citation Formats
Walsh, Evan D., Efetov, Dmitri K., Lee, Gil-Ho, Heuck, Mikkel, Crossno, Jesse, Ohki, Thomas A., Kim, Philip, Englund, Dirk, and Fong, Kin Chung. Graphene-Based Josephson-Junction Single-Photon Detector. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevapplied.8.024022.
Walsh, Evan D., Efetov, Dmitri K., Lee, Gil-Ho, Heuck, Mikkel, Crossno, Jesse, Ohki, Thomas A., Kim, Philip, Englund, Dirk, & Fong, Kin Chung. Graphene-Based Josephson-Junction Single-Photon Detector. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.8.024022
Walsh, Evan D., Efetov, Dmitri K., Lee, Gil-Ho, Heuck, Mikkel, Crossno, Jesse, Ohki, Thomas A., Kim, Philip, Englund, Dirk, and Fong, Kin Chung. Thu .
"Graphene-Based Josephson-Junction Single-Photon Detector". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.8.024022. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1535767.
@article{osti_1535767,
title = {Graphene-Based Josephson-Junction Single-Photon Detector},
author = {Walsh, Evan D. and Efetov, Dmitri K. and Lee, Gil-Ho and Heuck, Mikkel and Crossno, Jesse and Ohki, Thomas A. and Kim, Philip and Englund, Dirk and Fong, Kin Chung},
abstractNote = {In this work, we propose to use graphene-based Josephson junctions (GJJs) to detect single photons in a wide electromagnetic spectrum from visible to radio frequencies. Our approach takes advantage of the exceptionally low electronic heat capacity of monolayer graphene and its constricted thermal conductance to its phonon degrees of freedom. Such a system could provide high-sensitivity photon detection required for research areas including quantum information processing and radio astronomy. As an example, we present our device concepts for GJJ single-photon detectors in both the microwave and infrared regimes. The dark count rate and intrinsic quantum efficiency are computed based on parameters from a measured GJJ, demonstrating feasibility within existing technologies.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevapplied.8.024022},
journal = {Physical Review Applied},
number = 2,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Aug 24 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Thu Aug 24 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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