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A stress-induced source of phonon bursts and quasiparticle poisoning

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  • Robin Anthony-Petersen

    (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Andreas Biekert

    (University of California, Berkeley
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Raymond Bunker

    (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

  • Clarence L. Chang

    (Argonne National Laboratory
    University of Chicago
    University of Chicago)

  • Yen-Yung Chang

    (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Luke Chaplinsky

    (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

  • Eleanor Fascione

    (Queen’s University
    TRIUMF)

  • Caleb W. Fink

    (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Maurice Garcia-Sciveres

    (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Richard Germond

    (Queen’s University
    TRIUMF)

  • Wei Guo

    (Florida State University
    National High Magnetic Field Laboratory)

  • Scott A. Hertel

    (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

  • Ziqing Hong

    (University of Toronto)

  • Noah Kurinsky

    (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

  • Xinran Li

    (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Junsong Lin

    (University of California, Berkeley
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Marharyta Lisovenko

    (Argonne National Laboratory)

  • Rupak Mahapatra

    (Texas A&M University)

  • Adam Mayer

    (TRIUMF)

  • Daniel N. McKinsey

    (University of California, Berkeley
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Siddhant Mehrotra

    (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Nader Mirabolfathi

    (Texas A&M University)

  • Brian Neblosky

    (Northwestern University)

  • William A. Page

    (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Pratyush K. Patel

    (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

  • Bjoern Penning

    (University of Zurich)

  • H. Douglas Pinckney

    (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

  • Mark Platt

    (Texas A&M University)

  • Matt Pyle

    (University of California, Berkeley
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Maggie Reed

    (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Roger K. Romani

    (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Hadley Santana Queiroz

    (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Bernard Sadoulet

    (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Bruno Serfass

    (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Ryan Smith

    (University of California, Berkeley
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Peter Sorensen

    (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Burkhant Suerfu

    (University of California, Berkeley
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))

  • Aritoki Suzuki

    (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Ryan Underwood

    (Queen’s University)

  • Vetri Velan

    (University of California, Berkeley
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Gensheng Wang

    (Argonne National Laboratory)

  • Yue Wang

    (University of California, Berkeley
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Samuel L. Watkins

    (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Michael R. Williams

    (University of Michigan)

  • Volodymyr Yefremenko

    (Argonne National Laboratory)

  • Jianjie Zhang

    (Argonne National Laboratory)

Abstract

The performance of superconducting qubits is degraded by a poorly characterized set of energy sources breaking the Cooper pairs responsible for superconductivity, creating a condition often called “quasiparticle poisoning”. Both superconducting qubits and low threshold dark matter calorimeters have observed excess bursts of quasiparticles or phonons that decrease in rate with time. Here, we show that a silicon crystal glued to its holder exhibits a rate of low-energy phonon events that is more than two orders of magnitude larger than in a functionally identical crystal suspended from its holder in a low-stress state. The excess phonon event rate in the glued crystal decreases with time since cooldown, consistent with a source of phonon bursts which contributes to quasiparticle poisoning in quantum circuits and the low-energy events observed in cryogenic calorimeters. We argue that relaxation of thermally induced stress between the glue and crystal is the source of these events.

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  • Robin Anthony-Petersen & Andreas Biekert & Raymond Bunker & Clarence L. Chang & Yen-Yung Chang & Luke Chaplinsky & Eleanor Fascione & Caleb W. Fink & Maurice Garcia-Sciveres & Richard Germond & Wei Gu, 2024. "A stress-induced source of phonon bursts and quasiparticle poisoning," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-8, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-024-50173-8
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50173-8
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