Single-Photon Detection with a Josephson Junction Coupled to a Resonator

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2021-07-09

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Physical Review Applied, Volume 16, issue 1

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We use a semiclassical formalism to optimize a microwave single-photon detector based on switching events of a current-biased Josephson junction coupled to a resonator. To detect very rare events, the average time between dark counts τdark should be maximized taking into account that the switching time τsw should be sufficiently small. We demonstrate that these times can be tuned in a wide range by changing the junction parameters, and τdark/τsw∼109 can be achieved. Therefore, a junction-resonator arrangement can be used to detect extremely low photon fluxes (e.g., for searching for galactic axions).

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| openaire: EC/H2020/863313/EU//SUPERGALAX Funding Information: This work was supported by the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence program (Project No. 312057) and by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 863313 (SUPERGALAX). It was also partly supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (Grant No. FSUN-2020-0007) and by the Russian Science Foundation (Project No. 19-79-10170). Publisher Copyright: © 2021 American Physical Society.

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Golubev, D S, Il'Ichev, E V & Kuzmin, L S 2021, ' Single-Photon Detection with a Josephson Junction Coupled to a Resonator ', Physical Review Applied, vol. 16, no. 1, 014025 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.16.014025