Nature Communications (May 2017)

Quantum-circuit refrigerator

  • Kuan Yen Tan,
  • Matti Partanen,
  • Russell E. Lake,
  • Joonas Govenius,
  • Shumpei Masuda,
  • Mikko Möttönen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15189
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Efficient on-demand cooling of the functional degrees of freedom in solid-state implementations of quantum information processing devices remains a challenge. Here the authors demonstrate direct cooling of a photonic mode of a superconducting resonator using voltage-controllable electron tunnelling.