Effect of an external alternating electric field on the efficiency of a superconducting single-photon detector

In this paper, model of a surface ion trap for a scalable quantum computer with an RF electrode and a superconducting single-photon detector was studied with an operating temperature of 4 K. The amplitude range of the radio frequency signal varied from 10 to 800 mV at frequencies from 5 to 20 MHz. The effect of the induced external RF field of the trap on the dark and bright count rate of a single-photon detector is studied. The results of this work are important in the design of surface ion traps with planar single-photon detectors.