Improving Josephson junction reproducibility for superconducting quantum circuits: junction area fluctuation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.15293v1
• Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 10:00:24 GMT
• Title: Improving Josephson junction reproducibility for superconducting quantum circuits: junction area fluctuation
• Authors: A.A. Pishchimova, N.S. Smirnov, D.A. Ezenkova, E.A. Krivko, E.V. Zikiy, D.O. Moskalev, A.I. Ivanov, N.D. Korshakov, I.A. Rodionov
• Abstract summary: Josephson superconducting qubits and parametric amplifiers are prominent examples of superconducting quantum circuits. critical current $I_c$ variation of the Josephson junction, as the most important electrical parameter, needs to be minimized. We optimized Josephson junctions fabrication process and demonstrate resistance variation of $9.8-4.4%$ and $4.8-2.3%$ across $22times22$ $mm2$ and $5times10$ $mm2$ chip areas.
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• Abstract: Josephson superconducting qubits and parametric amplifiers are prominent examples of superconducting quantum circuits that have shown rapid progress in recent years. With the growing complexity of such devices, the requirements for reproducibility of their electrical properties across a chip have become stricter. Thus, the critical current $I_c$ variation of the Josephson junction, as the most important electrical parameter, needs to be minimized. Critical current, in turn, is related to normal-state resistance the Ambegaokar-Baratoff formula, which can be measured at room temperature. Here, we focus on the dominant source of Josephson junction critical current non-uniformity junction area variation. We optimized Josephson junctions fabrication process and demonstrate resistance variation of $9.8-4.4\%$ and $4.8-2.3\%$ across $22{\times}22$ $mm^2$ and $5{\times}10$ $mm^2$ chip areas, respectively. For a wide range of junction areas from $0.008$ ${\mu}m^2$ to $0.12$ ${\mu}m^2$ we ensure a small linewidth standard deviation of $4$ $nm$ measured over 4500 junctions with linear dimensions from $80$ to $680$ $nm$. The developed process was tested on superconducting highly coherent transmon qubits $(T_1 > 100\:{\mu}s)$ and a nonlinear asymmetric inductive element parametric amplifier.

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