Superconducting Josephson junction devices rank among the best candidates for realizing a quantum computer. While the coherent control of quantum dynamics has been demonstrated in these solid-state, macroscopic quantum systems, a major challenge has been to increase the coherence times for these qubits. With an objective to reduce the level of readout-induced decoherence, this thesis work focus...

Anyone who have designed a capacitively tuned VFO/VCO with the wide tuning range (>1.5-2x) has noticed that the oscillation threshold changes substantially with the tuning frequency. The usual solution to the problem is a combination of: 1. the AGC circuit, most frequently via the amplifier bias that changes the amplifier conduction angle; 2. shunting the LC circuit with a damping resistor or b...

In this paper a modified form of the most efficient resonant LLC series parallel converter configuration is proposed. The proposed system comprises of an additional LC circuit synchronized with the existing resonant tank of LLC configuration (LLC-LC configuration). With the development of power electronics devices, resonant converters have been proved to be more efficient than conventional conv...

The small-signal modeling technique based on the extended describing function concept is applied to LCC resonant converters. The analytical model developed includes both frequency control and phase-shift control. The small-signal equivalent circuit models are also derived and implemented in PSPICE. The models are in good agreement with the measurement data. 1. INTRODUCTION An LCC resonant conve...

Many semiconductor quantum devices utilize a novel tunneling transport mechanism that allows picosecond device switching speeds. The negative differential resistance characteristic of these devices, achieved due to resonant tunneling, is also ideally suited for the design of highly compact, self-latching logic circuits. As a result, quantum device technology is a promising emerging alternative ...

A new phase-controlled series resonant dddc converter is described, analyzed, and experimentally verified. The circuit comprises a phase-controlled inverter and a Class D current-driven rectifier. The phase-controlled inverter consists of two switching legs, two resonant inductors, and a single resonant capacitor connected in series with an ac load. The phase shift between the voltages that dri...

Superradiance of nuclear spins is considered, when the nuclei interact via hyperfine forces with electrons of a ferromagnet. The consideration is based on a microscopic model. If the sample, coupled with a resonant electric circuit, possesses electronic magnetization, then the electron subsystem plays the role of an additional effective resonator, by enhancing the coupling between nuclear spins...

We consider the measurement of higher current moments with a dissipative resonant circuit, which is coupled inductively to a mesoscopic device in the coherent regime. Information about the higher current moments is coded in the histograms of the charge on the capacitor plates of the resonant circuit. The role of dissipation is shown to be essential for the measured noise to remain finite. We al...

G. Haack,1 F. Helmer,2 M. Mariantoni,3 F. Marquardt,4 and E. Solano5,6 1Département de Physique Théorique, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland 2Department of Physics, ASC and CeNS, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Theresienstrasse 37, 80333 München, Germany 3Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA 4Institut für Theoretische Physik, Un...