{"id":203325,"date":"2025-01-08T02:37:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T08:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/fabricating-single-photon-detectors-from-superconducting-aluminum-nanostrips"},"modified":"2025-01-08T02:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T08:37:28","slug":"fabricating-single-photon-detectors-from-superconducting-aluminum-nanostrips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/fabricating-single-photon-detectors-from-superconducting-aluminum-nanostrips","title":{"rendered":"Fabricating single-photon detectors from superconducting aluminum nanostrips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fabricating-single-photon-detectors-from-superconducting-aluminum-nanostrips3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In quantum computers, information is often carried by single photons and picked up by structures named superconducting nanostrip single-photon detectors (SNSPDs). In principle, traditional type-I superconductors would be easier to integrate into existing quantum computing architectures than the type-II materials more widely used today. So far, however, this possibility hasn\u2019t been widely explored.<\/p>\n<p>New research <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2772830724000139\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Superconductivity<\/i> shows how Lixing You and colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China have for the first time successfully fabricated an SNSPD using thin films of the type-I superconductor, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/aluminum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">aluminum<\/a>, and used the structure to detect single photons of visible light with extremely high efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with the type-II superconductors more commonly used in SNSPDs so far, aluminum is more compatible with the latest quantum computing architectures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In quantum computers, information is often carried by single photons and picked up by structures named superconducting nanostrip single-photon detectors (SNSPDs). In principle, traditional type-I superconductors would be easier to integrate into existing quantum computing architectures than the type-II materials more widely used today. So far, however, this possibility hasn\u2019t been widely explored. New research [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}