prof. dr. Rok Žitko participated in the study of a new type of superconducting device with theoretical support

The quantum devices group has participated with theoretical support in a study of a new type of superconducting devices where the transmon qubit is extended with a quantum dot in one of the Josephson junctions. The research was carried out in collaboration with QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), Center for Quantum Devices, Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Leiden Institute of Physics at Leiden University (Netherlands), Institute of Materials Science in Madrid, CSIC (Spain), Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” (Italy), and Department of Physics and Frederick Seitz  Materials Research Laboratory, at University of Illinois  Urbana-Champaign (USA). When there is one electron trapped in the quantum dot, the spin provides an additional degree of freedom. This results in a new type of qubit, Andreev spin qubit, which combines advantages of superconducting qubits and semiconductor spin qubits. The Ljubljana group contributed with numerical calculations of qubit Josephson potentials, theory of spin-flip tunneling terms resulting from spin-orbit coupling, and theory of impurity Knight shift.

 

Singlet-Doublet Transitions of a Quantum Dot Josephson Junction Detected in a Transmon Circuit
Direct manipulation of a superconducting spin qubit strongly coupled to a transmon qubit
Spectroscopy of Spin-Split Andreev Levels in a Quantum Dot with Superconducting Leads
Impurity Knight shift in quantum dot Josephson junctions