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2026
article
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James A. Sauls
The interior crust and much of the liquid core of neutron stars is believed to be a quantum liquid mixture of neutron and proton superfluids and a relativistic electron liquid. Quantized vortices in the neutron superfluid and quantized flux lines in the …
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2025
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Wei‐Ting Lin, James A. Sauls
Abstract We develop a field theory formulation for the interaction of an ensemble of two-level tunneling systems (TLSs) with the electronic states of a superconductor. Predictions for the impact of two-level tunneling systems on superconductivity are presented, including Tc and the spectrum …
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2025
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Hikaru Ueki, Mehdi Zarea, James A. Sauls
Abstract Niobium superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities for high-energy accelerator applications have been greatly improved in terms of the quality factor $Q$ by techniques such as Nitrogen doping. However, the mechanisms leading to improvement in $Q$ are still not fully understood. Quite recently …
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2025
article
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Abdulaziz Abogoda, W. A. Shelton, Ilya Vekhter, James A. Sauls
We use density functional methods to identify the atomic configurations of H and D atoms trapped by O impurities embedded in bulk Nb. The O atoms are located at the octahedral position in the Nb body-centered cubic (BCC) lattice, and H (D) …
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2024
article
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Hikaru Ueki, James A. Sauls
Abstract High-Q superconducting resonators have been proposed and developed as detectors of light-by-light scattering mediated by the hypothesized axion or virtual electron–positron pairs in quantum electrodynamics: the Euler–Heisenberg (EH) interaction. Photon frequency and mode conversion is central to the scheme for detecting …
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2024
preprint
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D. C. Chen, Dierk Rainer, James A. Sauls
The structure of the order parameter and the excitation spectrum are investigated for isolated impurities in d-wave superconductors. Atomic scale impurities, or defects, scatter quasiparticles and lead to local suppression (pair-breaking) near the impurity. The pair-breaking effect arises from the formation of …
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2024
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Dominic P. Goronzy, Anthony McFadden, David A. Garcia‐Wetten, Mitchell J. Walker et autres
While significant strides have been made to increase the coherence time of superconducting qubits, further advancements are essential for realizing scalable quantum computing. Decoherence is often a result of loss and noise stemming from two-level systems and excess quasiparticles, arising due to …
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2024
preprint
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Abdulaziz Abogoda, W. A. Shelton, Ilya Vekhter, James A. Sauls
We use density functional methods to identify the atomic configurations of H and D atoms trapped by O impurities and embedded in bulk Nb. We calculate the double-well potential for O-H and O-D impurities, wave functions, and tunnel splittings for H and …
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2024
editorial
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R. Prozorov, James A. Sauls, P. J. Hirschfeld, Nigel Edward Hussey et autres
Studying defects and imperfections in superconductors is paramount for fundamental and applied research. Defects play a multifaceted role, from decreasing quality and performance in some situations to enhancing desired properties in others. Disorder is also a unique probe to study the fundamental …
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2024
preprint
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Hikaru Ueki, James A. Sauls
High-Q superconducting resonators have been proposed and developed as detectors of light-by-light scattering mediated by the hypothesized axion or virtual electron-positron pairs in quantum electrodynamics - the Euler-Heisenberg (EH) interaction. Photon frequency and mode conversion is central to the scheme for detecting …
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2024
preprint
OpenAlex
Hikaru Ueki, James A. Sauls
High-Q superconducting resonators have been proposed and developed as detectors of light-by-light scattering mediated by the hypothesized axion or virtual electron-positron pairs in quantum electrodynamics - the Euler-Heisenberg (EH) interaction. Photon frequency and mode conversion is central to the scheme for detecting …
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2024
conference-paper
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Darin C. Mumma, Z. H. Sun, Alexis Mercenne, Kristina D. Launey et autres
Solving atomic nuclei from first principles places enormous demands on computational resources, which grow exponentially with increasing number of particles and the size of the space they occupy. We present first quantum simulations based on the variational quantum eigensolver for the low-lying …
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