Self-Oscillations in a superconducting stripline Resonator integrated with a DC-Squid


  Eran Segev  ,  Oren Suchoi  ,  Oleg Shtempluck  ,  Eyal Buks  
Quantum Engineering Lab., Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Israel

We study self-sustained oscillations (SO) in a Nb superconducting stripline resonators (SSR) integrated with a DC superconducting quantum interface device (SQUID). We find that both the power threshold where these oscillations start and the oscillation frequency are periodic in the applied magnetic flux threading the SQUID loop. A theoretical model which attributes the SO to a thermal instability in the DC-SQUID yields a good agreement with the experimental results. This flux dependant nonlinearity may be used for quantum state reading of a qubit-SSR integrated device.