11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

The effect of pinholes on Josephson transport in AlOx tunnel junctions

15 Dec 2022, 11:30
15m
Hall C (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Hall C

Adelaide Convention Centre

Talk (preferred) AIP: Condensed Matter, Materials and Surface Physics AIP: Condensed Matter, Materials and Surface Physics

Speaker

Karen Bayros (RMIT University)

Description

Josephson junctions are the key components of quantum computers based on superconducting qubits. We develop an atomistic model to study the effect of microscopic defects called "pinholes", which could cause energy dissipation in Al/AlO$_\textrm{x}$/Al Josephson junctions.

Author

Karen Bayros (RMIT University)

Co-authors

Jackson Smith (RMIT University) Jared Cole (RMIT University) Martin Cyster (RMIT University)

Presentation materials