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Amplifiers are crucial in every experiment carrying out a very sensitive measurement. However, they always degrade the information by adding noise. Quantum mechanics puts a limit on how small this degradation can be. Theoretically, the minimum noise energy added by a phase preserving amplifier to the signal it processes amounts at least to half a photon at the signal frequency. In this article, we show that we can build a practical microwave device that fulfills the minimal requirements to reach the quantum limit. This is of importance for the readout of solid state qubits, and more generally, for the measurement of very weak signals in various areas of science. We also discuss how this device can be the basic building block for a variety of practical applications such as amplification, noiseless frequency conversion, dynamic cooling and production of entangled signal pairs.
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Josephson-junction based parametric amplifiers have become a ubiquitous component in superconducting quantum machines. Although parametric amplifiers regularly achieve near-quantum limited performance, they have many limitations, including low saturation powers, lack of directionality, and narrow bandwidth. The first is believed to stem from the higher order Hamiltonian terms endemic to Josephson junction circuits, and the latter two are direct consequences of the nature of the parametric interactions which power them. In this work, we attack both of these issues. First, we have designed a new, linearly shunted Josephson Ring Modulator (JRM) which nearly nulls all 4th-order terms at a single flux bias point. Next, we achieve gain through a pair of balanced parametric drives. When applied separately, these drives produce phase-preserving gain (G) and gainless photon conversion (C), when applied together, the resultant amplifier (which we term GC) is a bi-directional, phase-sensitive transmission-only amplifier with a large, gain-independent bandwidth. Finally, we have also demonstrated the practical utility of the GC amplifier, as well as its quantum efficiency, by using it to read out a superconducting transmon qubit.
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