Nonlocal Superconducting Single-Photon Detector
Federico Paolucci
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.20.014003 · Physical Review Applied
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Abstract
We present and theoretically analyze the performance of a nonlocal superconducting single-photon detector. The device operates due to the energy-to-phase conversion mechanism, where the energy of the absorbed single photon is transformed in a variation of the superconducting phase. Within this scope, the detector is designed in the form of a double-loop superconductor–normal-metal–superconductor (S-N-S) Josephson interferometer, where the detection occurs in a long S-N-S junction and the readout is operated by a short S-N-S junction. The variation of the superconducting phase across the readout junction is measured by recording the quasiparticle current flowing through a tunnel-coupled superconducting probe. By exploiting realistic geometry and materials, the detector is able to reveal single photons of frequency down to 10 GHz when operated at 10 mK. Furthermore, the device provides a value of the signal-to-noise ratio of up 104 in the range from 10 GHz to 10 THz by selection of the magnetic flux and the bias voltage. This device will hopefully find direct application as a single-photon detector in both basic science and quantum technology, while the energy-to-phase conversion mechanism could be the basis of nonlocal readout and memory architectures for superconducting qubits.
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