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Even in the absence of Coulomb interactions phase fluctuations induced by quantum size effects become increasingly important in superconducting nano-structures as the mean level spacing becomes comparable with the bulk superconducting gap.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-03-05 Pedro Ribeiro , Antonio M. García-García

We present a model to describe an underdamped long Josephson junction coupled to a singlemode electromagnetic cavity, and carry out numerical calculations using this model in various regimes. The coupling may occur through either the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Ivan Tornes , David Stroud

Spherical shaped Si quantum dots (QDs) embedded into the SiO2 substrate are considered in the single sub-band effective mass approach. Nonparabolicity of the Si conduction band is described by the energy dependence of electron effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 I. Filikhin , S. G. Matinyan , B. K. Schmid , B. Vlahovic

Using tunneling spectroscopy, we have measured the local electron energy distribution function in the normal part of a superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) Josephson junction containing an extra lead to a normal reservoir. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 M. S. Crosser , Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkilä , Norman O. Birge

Josephson tunnel junctions are essential elements of superconducting quantum circuits. The operability of these circuits presumes a $2\pi$-periodic sinusoidal potential of a tunnel junction, but higher-order corrections to this Josephson…

We consider voltage and current responses formation in DC SQUID with overdamped Josephson junctions in resistive and superconducting state in the frame of resistively shunted junction (RSJ) model. For simplicity we neglect the junction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-09 I. I. Soloviev , N. V. Klenov , A. E. Schegolev , S. V. Bakurskiy , M. Yu. Kupriyanov

We investigate the Josephson effects in the junction formed by \emph{DIII}-class topological and $s$-wave superconductors, by embedding a quantum dot in the junction. Three dot-superconductor coupling manners are considered, respectively.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Zhen Gao , Wan-Fei Shan , Wei-Jiang Gong

We show that a constriction-type Josephson junction realized by an epitactic thin film of a d-wave superconductor with an appropriate boundary geometry exhibits intrinsic phase differences between 0 and pi depending on geometric parameters…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Gumann , N. Schopohl

It was established experimentally that a critical value of the diamagnetic current, excited by an external magnetic field in a superconducting ring (with an inductance of about ~ 10^-6 H) with a Nb-Nb clamping point contact having the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-03-19 S. I. Bondarenko , V. P. Koverya , A. V. Krevsun , N. M. Levchenko

Deep-inelastic ep scattering data, taken with the H1 detector at HERA, are used to study the event shape variables thrust, jet broadening, jet mass, C parameter and two kinds of differential two-jet rate. The data cover a large range of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 H1 Collaboration , C. Adloff

The Josephson vortex formed in a superconductor-insulator-superconductor (SIS) junction can affect the quantum mechanics of quasiparticles by creating an effective adiabatic potential determined by the inhomogeneous distribution of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-31 Vadim Plastovets , A. S. Mel'nikov

We study the equilibrium dynamics of the relative phase in a superconducting Josephson link taking into account the quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic vacuum. The photons act as a superohmic heat bath on the relative Cooper pair…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Kohler , F. Guinea , F. Sols

The experimentally measured spectral density of current noise in Josephson junctions provides direct evidence for the existence of zero-point fluctuations. Assuming that the total vacuum energy associated with these fluctuations cannot…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Christian Beck , Michael C. Mackey

While Josephson junctions can be viewed as highly non-linear impedances for superconducting quantum technologies, they also possess internal dynamics that may strongly affect their behavior. Here, we construct a computational framework that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-29 Benoit Rossignol , Thomas Kloss , Xavier Waintal

We compare the entropy-energy inequality and the von Neumann entropic inequality for three level atom implemented on superconducting circuits with Josephson junction. The positivity of entropy and energy relations for the qutrit system are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-08 V. I. Man'ko , L. A. Markovich

We have measured the current-voltage characteristics of a single Josephson junction placed in a high impedance environment. The transfer of Cooper pairs through the junction is governed by overdamped quasicharge dynamics, leading to Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Corlevi , W. Guichard , F. W. J. Hekking , D. B. Haviland

The superconducting circuits involving Josephson junction offer macroscopic quantum two-level system (qubit) which are coupled to cavity resonators and are operated via microwave signals. In this work, we study the dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Prashant Shukla

When two separately contacted quantum Hall (QH) edge channels are brought into interaction, they can equilibrate their imbalance via scattering processes. In the present work we use a tunable QH circuit to implement a junction between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-24 Nicola Paradiso , Stefan Heun , Stefano Roddaro , Lucia Sorba , Fabio Beltram , Giorgio Biasiol

Scaling superconducting quantum processors to large qubit counts faces challenges in control signal delivery, thermal management, and hardware complexity, particularly in achieving microwave signal multiplexing and long-distance quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Mustafa Bakr

Identifying the microscopic origins of decoherence sources prevalent in Josephson junction based circuits is central to their use as functional quantum devices. Focussing on so called "strongly coupled" two-level defects, we construct a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-25 Timothy C. DuBois , Salvy P. Russo , Jared H. Cole