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

A. Romanenko, R. Pilipenko, S. Zorzetti, D. Frolov, M. Awida, S. Belomestnykh, S. Posen, A. Grassellino

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.034032 · Physical Review Applied

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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 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.

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