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We investigate the transient dynamics of a short overdamped Josephson junction with a periodic driving signal in the presence of colored noise. We analyze noise induced henomena, specifically resonant activation and noise enhanced…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-10-07 G. Augello , D. Valenti , B. Spagnolo

Current flow in electronic devices can be asymmetric with bias direction, a phenomenon underlying the utility of diodes and known as non-reciprocal charge transport. The promise of dissipationless electronics has recently stimulated the…

We study a multi-terminal Josephson junction based on an interacting quantum dot coupled to $n$ superconducting BCS leads. Using an Anderson type model of a local level with an arbitrary onsite Coulomb repulsion, we uncover its surprising…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Peter Zalom , Martin Žonda , T. Novotný

We investigate spin transport in voltage-biased spin-active Josephson junctions. The interplay of spin filtering, spin mixing, and multiple Andreev reflection leads to nonlinear voltage dependence of the dc and ac spin current. We compute…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Erhai Zhao , J. A. Sauls

We explore the self-sustained Josephson junction dynamics in dipolar supersolids, predicting the possibility of self-trapping alongside the experimentally observed Josephson oscillations [Biagioni, G. et al., Nature 629, 773 (2024)]. Using…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-04-30 Aitor Alaña , Michele Modugno , Pablo Capuzzi , D. M. Jezek

The Josephson equations predict remarkable effects concerning the phase state of a superconducting junction with an oscillating current induced by a static voltage. Whether the paradigm can be twisted by yielding an oscillating voltage…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-05 Claudio Guarcello , Luca Chirolli , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Francesco Giazotto , Mario Cuoco

Josephson junctions (JJs) are by nature neuromorphic hardware devices capable of mimicking excitability and spiking dynamics. When coupled together or combined with other superconducting elements, they can emulate additional behaviors found…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-12 G. Baxevanis , J. Hizanidis

In typical Josephson junctions, the Josephson current is an odd function of the superconducting phase difference. Recently, diode effect in Josephson junctions is observed in experiments wherein the maximum and the minimum values of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-08 Abhiram Soori

We reinvestigate a paradigmatic model of nonequilibrium statistical physics consisting of an inertial Brownian particle in a symmetric periodic potential subjected to both a time--periodic force and a static bias. In doing so we focus on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-21 Mateusz Wiśniewski , Jakub Spiechowicz

We study overdamped stochastic dynamics confined by hard reflecting boundaries and show that the combination of boundary geometry and an anisotropic diffusion tensor generically generates directed motion. At the level of individual…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-14 Meitar Goldfarb , Stanislav Burov

We investigate dynamical transport aspects of a combined nanomechanical-superconducting device in which Cooper pair tunneling interfere with the mechanical motion of a vibrating molecular quantum dot embedded in a Josephson junction. Six…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-22 J. Fransson , A. V. Balatsky , J. -X. Zhu

Josephson junctions enable dissipation-less electrical current through metals and insulators below a critical current. Despite being central to quantum technology based on superconducting quantum bits and fundamental research into…

We discuss the resonant activation phenomenon on a Josephson junction due to the coupling of the Josephson system with axions. We show how such an effect can be exploited for axion detection. A nonmonotonic behavior, with a minimum, of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-14 Roberto Grimaudo , Davide Valenti , Bernardo Spagnolo , Giovanni Filatrella , Claudio Guarcello

We have probed the switching dynamics of the Josephson critical current of a superconducting weak link by measuring its voltage/current characteristics while applying an ac current bias in the range 1-200 MHz. The weak link between two Nb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Kevin Spahr , Jonathan Graveline , Chrustian Lupien , Marco Aprili , Bertrand Reulet

Periodically driven systems exhibit resonance when the difference between an excited state energy and the ground state energy is an integer multiple of $\hbar$ times the driving frequency. On the other hand, when a superconducting phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Abhiram Soori , M. Sivakumar

Complex fluids in shear flow and biased dynamics in crowded environments exhibit counterintuitive features which are difficult to address both at theoretical level and by molecular dynamic simulations. To understand some of these features…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-09-19 Francesco Turci , Estelle Pitard , Mauro Sellitto

The coupling of the charge carriers passing through a molecule bridging two bulky conductors with local vibrational modes of the molecule, gives rise to distinct features in the electronic transport properties on one hand, and to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 A. Ueda , Y. Utsumi , Y. Tokura , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony

We theoretically explore the low-energy behavior of a Josephson tunnel junction coupled to a finite-length, charge-biased transmission line and compare it to its flux-biased counterpart. For transmission lines of increasing length, we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Luca Giacomelli , Michel H. Devoret , Cristiano Ciuti

We describe resistive states of the system combining two types of orderings - superconducting and ferromagnetic one. It is shown that in the presence of magnetization dynamics such systems become inherently dissipative and in principle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-19 D. S. Rabinovich , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , M. A. Silaev

We consider a simple model of particle transport on the line defined by a dynamical map F satisfying F(x+1) = 1 + F(x) for all x in R and F(x) = ax + b for |x| < 0.5. Its two parameters a (`slope') and b (`bias') are respectively symmetric…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 J. Groeneveld , R. Klages