Tunable superconducting two-chip lumped element resonator

TL;DR

This paper presents a tunable superconducting two-chip resonator device with a comprehensive model predicting its behavior, demonstrating regimes for coupling and frequency tuning, and experimental validation of transmission characteristics.

Contribution

The work introduces a full model for a two-chip superconducting resonator system and experimentally validates its tunability and insensitivity regimes.

Findings

Device can be tuned for coupling and frequency without degrading quality factors.

Model accurately predicts transmission behavior across different configurations.

Resonator properties remain stable against small positional variations.

Abstract

We have fabricated and investigated a stacked two-chip device, consisting of a lumped element resonator on one chip, which is side-coupled to a coplanar waveguide transmission line on a second chip. We present a full model to predict the behavior of the device dependent on the position of the lumped element resonator with respect to the transmission line. We identify different regimes, in which the device can be operated. One of them can be used to tune the coupling between the two subsystems. Another regime enables frequency tunability of the device, without leaving the over-coupled limit for internal quality factors of about $10^4$, while in the last regime the resonator properties are insensitive against small variations of the position. Finally, we have measured the transmission characteristics of the resonator for different positions, demonstrating a good agreement with the model.