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Recent experimental demonstrations of quantum coherence of the charge and flux states of Josephson junctions show that the quantum Josephson dynamics can be used to develop scalable quantum logic circuits. In this work, I review the basic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 D. V. Averin

The Josephson current between d-wave superconductors is investigated in the framework of tight-binding lattice model. The junction is modelled by a small number of connecting bonds. It is obtained that the Josephson current through one bond…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Bobkov

Phonon lasers, as the counterpart of photonic lasers, have been intensively studied in a large variety of systems, however, (all) most of them are based on the directly coherent pumping. Intuitively, dissipation is an unfavorable factor for…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-26 Qiankun Zhang , Cheng Yang , Jiteng Sheng , Haibin Wu

The coupling of Josephson oscillations in layered superconductors is studied with help of a tunneling Hamiltonian formalism. The general form of the current density across the barriers between the superconducting layers is derived. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 Ch. Preis , Ch. Helm , J. Keller , A. Sergeev , R. Kleiner

We consider the Josephson vortex motion in a long one--dimensional Josephson junction in a thin film. We show that this Josephson vortex is similar to a mesoscopic capacitor. We demonstrate that a single Cooper pair tunneling results in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 R. G. Mints , I. B. Snapiro

We theoretically investigate heat transport in temperature-biased Josephson tunnel junctions in the presence of an in-plane magnetic field. In full analogy with the Josephson critical current, the phase-dependent component of the heat flux…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-12 F. Giazotto , M. J. Martinez-Perez , P. Solinas

Currently, there is a growing interest in studying the coherent interaction between magnetic systems and electromagnetic radiation in a cavity, prompted partly by possible applications in hybrid quantum systems. We propose a multimode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 T. S. Parvini , V. A. S. V. Bittencourt , Silvia Viola Kusminskiy

A Josephson junction embedded in a dissipative circuit can be externally driven to induce nonlinear dynamics of its phase. Classically, under sufficiently strong driving and weak damping, dynamic multi-stability emerges associated with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Jennifer Gosner , Björn Kubala , Joachim Ankerhold

Theory of self induced resonances in asymmetric two-junction interferometer device is presented. In real devices it is impossible to have an ideal interferometer free of imperfections. Thus, we extended previous theoretical approaches…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 T. P. Polak , E. Sarnelli

We tune the barrier of a Josephson junction through a zero-temperature metal-insulator transition and study the thermodynamic behavior of the junction in the proximity of the quantum-critical point. We examine a short-coherence-length…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 J. K. Freericks , B. K. Nikolic , P. Miller

Ultralight bosons sourced by macroscopic objects can generate long-range spin-independent and spin-dependent potentials that are accessible to precision interferometry. Such potentials induce phase shifts in Josephson junctions, detectable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-28 Djuna Croon , Tanmay Kumar Poddar

Motivated by recent experiments, where a voltage biased Josephson junction is placed in series with a resonator, the classical dynamics of the circuit is studied in various domains of parameter space. This problem can be mapped onto the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 S. Meister , M. Mecklenburg , V. Gramich , J. T. Stockburger , J. Ankerhold , B. Kubala

We propose a many-body mechanism for a strong Josephson diode effect (JDE) in an interacting nanoscale SQUID formed by two parallel quantum dots coupled to superconducting leads. Unlike conventional diode behavior, where nonreciprocity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-02 Zelei Zhang , Jianxiong Zhai , Yi Zhang , Jiawei Yan

The sensitivity of superconducting qubits allows for spectroscopy and coherence measurements on individual two-level systems present in the disordered tunnel barrier of an $\mathrm{Al/AlO_x/Al}$ Josephson junction. We report experimental…

We propose theoretically a Josephson diode consisting of the conventional superconductors with the plain s-wave pairing and a chiral quantum dot. When an external magnetic field is exerted on the quantum dot, the critical current of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Qiang Cheng , Qing-Feng Sun

We experimentally study a driven-dissipative Josephson junction array, realized with a weakly interacting Bose Einstein condensate residing in a one-dimensional optical lattice. Engineered losses on one site act as a local dissipative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-24 Ralf Labouvie , Bodhaditya Santra , Simon Heun , Herwig Ott

We propose to dynamically control the conductivity of a Josephson junction composed of two weakly coupled one dimensional condensates of ultracold atoms. A current is induced by a periodically modulated potential difference between the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-10 Beilei Zhu , Vijay Pal Singh , Junichi Okamoto , Ludwig Mathey

Technological advances allow for tunable lateral confinement of cold dipolar excitons in coupled quantum wells. We consider theoretically the Josephson effect between exciton condensates in two traps separated by a weak link. The flow of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-28 Massimo Rontani , L. J. Sham

Quantum interferometry methods exploit quantum resources, such as photonic entanglement, to enhance phase estimation beyond classical limits. Nonlinear optics has served as a workhorse for the generation of entangled photon pairs, ensuring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Romain Dalidet , Anthony Martin , Grégory Sauder , Laurent Labonté , Sébastien Tanzilli

Based on a tunneling Hamiltonian description, we calculate the Josephson, normal and interference currents between two Bose-Einstein condensates described by the Bogoliubov theory. The dominant Josephson term is of first order in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Meier , W. Zwerger