Superinductor-based ultrastrong coupling in a superconducting circuit

  1. Alba Torras-Coloma,
  2. Luca Cozzolino,
  3. Ariadna Gómez-del-Pulgar-Martínez,
  4. Elia Bertoldo,
  5. and P. Forn-Díaz
We present an ultrastrong superinductor-based coupling consisting of a flux qubit galvanically coupled to a resonator. The coupling inductor is fabricated in granular Aluminum, a superinductor
material able to provide large surface inductances. Spectroscopy measurements on the qubit-resonator system reveal a Bloch-Siegert shift of \SI{23}{\mega\hertz} and a coupling fraction of g/ωr≃0.13, entering the perturbative ultrastrong coupling (USC) regime. We estimate the inductance of the coupler independently by low-temperature resistance measurements providing Lc=(0.74±0.14)nH, which is compatible with g/ω≳0.1. Our results show that superinductors are a promising tool to study USC physics in high-coherence circuits using flux qubits with small loop areas and low persistent currents.