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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 58: Poster Session Transport & Matter at Low Temperature

TT 58.30: Poster

Thursday, March 14, 2013, 15:00–19:00, Poster D

Probing the TLS Density of States in Thin a-SiO Films using Superconducting Lumped Element Resonators — •Sebastian T. Skacel^1,2, Christoph Kaiser², Stefan Wünsch^2,3, Hannes Rotzinger¹, Oleksandr Lukashenko¹, Markus Jerger¹, Georg Weiss^1,3, Michael Siegel^2,3, and Alexey V. Ustinov^1,3 — ¹Physikalisches Institut, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Wolfgang-Gaede-Straße 1, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany — ²Institut für Mikro- und Nanoelektronische Systeme, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Hertzstraße 16, D-76187 Karlsruhe, Germany — ³Center for Functional Nanostructures, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Wolfgang-Gaede-Straße 1a, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany

In the context of low-loss materials needed for superconducting qubits, we investigated the dielectric loss in the volume of a-SiO thin films at mK temperatures and single photon power levels. Our broadband measurement setup employs multiplexed lumped element resonators as well as suitable power combiner and low noise amplifier. This enables measurements on all resonators to be carried out in one cool down cycle. The results are in good agreement with the temperature and power dependence of the dielectric losses predicted for atomic two-level tunneling systems (TLSs). We find indication that the TLS density of states increases with frequency, which had not been seen in previous loss measurements.