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An aluminium superinductor

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Granular aluminium — a superconductor with high kinetic inductance — has been used to create a superinductor for a fluxonium superconducting qubit.

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Fig. 1: Schematic of a high-impedance granular aluminium superconducting circuit.

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  2. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    William D. Oliver

  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, USA

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Wang, J.IJ., Oliver, W.D. An aluminium superinductor. Nat. Mater. 18, 775–776 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-019-0401-9

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