Chiral cavity control of flat band Josephson Diode

ORAL

Abstract

Flat band systems have opened opportunities to access on-demand unconventional phenomena. Here, we demonstrate chiral cavity control of Josephson diodes at microwave frequencies. We show chirality-controlled diode response in gate-defined twisted bilayer graphene Josephson junctions (JJs), where cavity-induced time-reversal symmetry breaking, analogous to the Haldane model, enables a topological diode tunable by mode chirality and coupling strength. Focusing on SNS JJs, we show that long-wavelength microwaves break time-reversal symmetry in both superconducting and weak-link regions, extending control beyond spontaneously broken phases and enabling diode response unique to non-trivial flat bands. We find that the interplay of phase accumulation and non-trivial transmission across the junction leads to large diode efficiencies, nearly 30%. We further demonstrate chiral mode controlled 0-π transitions, enabling on-demand 0-π qubits.

*This work was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Quantum Science Center (a National Quantum Information Science Center of the U.S. Department of Energy), Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Grant Numbers GBMF8048 and GBMF12976 ), and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (Guggenheim Fellowship).

Presenters

  • Dilip Kusuma

    • University of California, Los Angeles

Authors

  • Dilip Kusuma

    • University of California, Los Angeles
  • Arpit Arora

    • University of California, Los Angeles
  • Jacob F Steiner

    • Caltech
  • Gil Refael

    • Caltech
  • Prineha Narang

    • University of California, Los Angeles