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author Anthony-Petersen, Robin
Biekert, Andreas
Bunker, Raymond
Chang, Clarence L.
Chang, Yen-Yung
Chaplinsky, Luke
Fascione, Eleanor
Fink, Caleb W.
Garcia-Sciveres, Maurice
Germond, Richard
Guo, Wei
Hertel, Scott A.
Hong, Ziqing
Kurinsky, Noah
Li, Xinran
Lin, Junsong
Lisovenko, Marharyta
Mahapatra, Rupak
Mayer, Adam
McKinsey, Daniel N.
Mehrotra, Siddhant
Mirabolfathi, Nader
Neblosky, Brian
Page, William A.
Patel, Pratyush K.
Penning, Bjoern
Pinckney, H. Douglas
Platt, Mark
Pyle, Matt
Reed, Maggie
Romani, Roger K.
Queiroz, Hadley Santana
Sadoulet, Bernard
Serfass, Bruno
Smith, Ryan
Sorensen, Peter F.
Suerfu, Burkhant
Suzuki, Aritoki
Underwood, Ryan
Velan, Vetri
Wang, Gensheng
Wang, Yue
Watkins, Samuel L.
Williams, Michael R.
Yefremenko, Volodymyr
Zhang, Jianjie
author_facet Anthony-Petersen, Robin
Biekert, Andreas
Bunker, Raymond
Chang, Clarence L.
Chang, Yen-Yung
Chaplinsky, Luke
Fascione, Eleanor
Fink, Caleb W.
Garcia-Sciveres, Maurice
Germond, Richard
Guo, Wei
Hertel, Scott A.
Hong, Ziqing
Kurinsky, Noah
Li, Xinran
Lin, Junsong
Lisovenko, Marharyta
Mahapatra, Rupak
Mayer, Adam
McKinsey, Daniel N.
Mehrotra, Siddhant
Mirabolfathi, Nader
Neblosky, Brian
Page, William A.
Patel, Pratyush K.
Penning, Bjoern
Pinckney, H. Douglas
Platt, Mark
Pyle, Matt
Reed, Maggie
Romani, Roger K.
Queiroz, Hadley Santana
Sadoulet, Bernard
Serfass, Bruno
Smith, Ryan
Sorensen, Peter F.
Suerfu, Burkhant
Suzuki, Aritoki
Underwood, Ryan
Velan, Vetri
Wang, Gensheng
Wang, Yue
Watkins, Samuel L.
Williams, Michael R.
Yefremenko, Volodymyr
Zhang, Jianjie
contents 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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spellingShingle A Stress Induced Source of Phonon Bursts and Quasiparticle Poisoning
Anthony-Petersen, Robin
Biekert, Andreas
Bunker, Raymond
Chang, Clarence L.
Chang, Yen-Yung
Chaplinsky, Luke
Fascione, Eleanor
Fink, Caleb W.
Garcia-Sciveres, Maurice
Germond, Richard
Guo, Wei
Hertel, Scott A.
Hong, Ziqing
Kurinsky, Noah
Li, Xinran
Lin, Junsong
Lisovenko, Marharyta
Mahapatra, Rupak
Mayer, Adam
McKinsey, Daniel N.
Mehrotra, Siddhant
Mirabolfathi, Nader
Neblosky, Brian
Page, William A.
Patel, Pratyush K.
Penning, Bjoern
Pinckney, H. Douglas
Platt, Mark
Pyle, Matt
Reed, Maggie
Romani, Roger K.
Queiroz, Hadley Santana
Sadoulet, Bernard
Serfass, Bruno
Smith, Ryan
Sorensen, Peter F.
Suerfu, Burkhant
Suzuki, Aritoki
Underwood, Ryan
Velan, Vetri
Wang, Gensheng
Wang, Yue
Watkins, Samuel L.
Williams, Michael R.
Yefremenko, Volodymyr
Zhang, Jianjie
Instrumentation and Detectors
Superconductivity
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.
title A Stress Induced Source of Phonon Bursts and Quasiparticle Poisoning
topic Instrumentation and Detectors
Superconductivity
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.02790