Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Applications of a superconducting device that mixes surface acoustic waves and microwave signals
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Application No.: US16048979Application Date: 2018-07-30
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Publication No.: US10320331B1Publication Date: 2019-06-11
- Inventor: Baleegh Abdo
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Amin, Turocy & Watson, LLP
- Main IPC: G06N99/00
- IPC: G06N99/00 ; H01L39/02 ; H03D7/00 ; H03H9/24 ; H03F19/00 ; H03H9/25 ; H01L39/22 ; H01L39/12 ; G06N10/00 ; H03H9/02

Abstract:
Superconducting device applications implemented with a surface acoustic wave resonator and a superconducting microwave resonator coupled to a Josephson ring modulator are provided. A method can comprise receiving, by a microwave Josephson mixer, and from a superconducting surface acoustic wave resonator of a superconducting device, a surface acoustic wave signal that comprises one or more phonons that resonate at a first frequency. The method can also comprise receiving, by the microwave Josephson mixer and from a superconducting microwave resonator of the superconducting device, a microwave signal that comprises one or more photons that can resonate at a second frequency. Further, the method can also comprise mixing, by the microwave Josephson mixer, the surface acoustic wave signal and the microwave signal based on a microwave control signal received from a microwave source operatively coupled to the microwave Josephson mixer.
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