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We show that spatial variation and correlation of superconductivity fluctuations in a two-band model are scaled by two characteristic lengths. This results in substantially more complicated picture compared to one-band systems. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-11-26 T. Örd , A. Vargunin , K. Rägo

The hole-doped cuprate high temperature superconductors enter the pseudogap regime as their superconducting critical temperature, $T_c$, falls with decreasing hole density. Experiments have probed this regime for over two decades, but we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-03-24 Lauren E. Hayward , David G. Hawthorn , Roger G. Melko , Subir Sachdev

In addition to their central role in quantum information processing, qubits have proven to be useful tools in a range of other applications such as enhanced quantum sensing and as spectrometers of quantum noise. Here we show that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Maxime Boissonneault , A. C. Doherty , F. R. Ong , P. Bertet , D. Vion , D. Esteve , A. Blais

We derive analytically the spatial correlation functions for gap fluctuations in two-band scenario with intra- and interband pair-transfer interactions. These functions demonstrate the changes in spatial functionality due to the presence of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-09-21 Artjom Vargunin , Teet Örd

Fluctuations are important near phase transitions, where they can be difficult to describe quantitatively. Superconductivity in mesoscopic rings is particularly intriguing because the critical temperature is an oscillatory function of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-01-06 Nicholas C. Koshnick , Hendrik Bluhm , Martin E. Huber , Kathryn A. Moler

Improving the coherence of superconducting qubits is essential for advancing quantum technologies. While superconductors are theoretically perfect conductors, they consistently exhibit residual energy dissipation when driven by microwave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Thibault Charpentier , Anton Khvalyuk , Lev Ioffe , Mikhail Feigel'man , Nicolas Roch , Benjamin Sacépé

Superconducting transitions are driven by thermal fluctuations close to the transition temperature, Tc. These fluctuations are averaged out in global measurements, leaving imprints on susceptibility and resistance measurements. Here, we use…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-29 Shai Wissberg , Aviad Frydman , Beena Kalisky

We study mesoscopic fluctuations in the supercurrent of a Josephson junction consisting of a topological insulator microbridge between two conventional superconductors. In the model, we account for the strong proximity effect when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-02 Marcus Marinho , Guilherme Vieira , Tobias Micklitz , Georg Schwiete , Alex Levchenko

We present a theoretical and experimental study of superconducting ring resonators as an initial step toward their implementation in superconducting electronics and quantum technologies, with promising applications including superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-16 Zhenyuan Sun , Stafford Withington , Christopher Thomas , Songyuan Zhao

Properties of superfluid states of two-dimensional electron systems with critical antiferromagnetic fluctuations are investigated. These correlations are found to result in the emergence of rapidly varying in the momentum space terms in all…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 V. A. Khodel , V. M. Yakovenko

In this paper, we investigate wave scattering by a pair of closely spaced inclusions embedded in a homogeneous medium, characterized by a high contrast physical parameters. The system is modeled by the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Hongjie Dong , Hongjie Li , Longjuan Xu

Superconducting fluctuations have proved to be an irreplaceable source of information about microscopic and macroscopic material parameters that could be inferred from the experiment. According to common wisdom, the effect of thermodynamic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-02 Alexey Galda , A. S. Mel'nikov , V. M. Vinokur

The accuracy of microwave measurements is not only critical for applications in telecommunication and radar, but also for future quantum computers. Qubit technologies such as superconducting qubits or spin qubits require detecting minuscule…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 N. Crescini , E. G. Kelly , G. Salis , A. Fuhrer

We discuss decoherence due to electromagnetic fluctuations in charge qubits formed by two lateral quantum dots. We use an effective circuit model to evaluate correlations of voltage fluctuations in the qubit setup. These correlations allows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Diego C. B. Valente , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , F. K. Wilhelm

We study the order parameter phase fluctuation effects in cuprate superconductors near T=0, using a quasi-two-dimensional d-wave BCS model. An effective phason theory is obtained which is used to estimate the strength of the fluctuations,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Hyok-Jon Kwon , Alan T. Dorsey , P. J. Hirschfeld

We propose and demonstrate a spatial partition method for the high-frequency photo-response of superconducting devices correlated with inductive and resistive changes in microwave impedance. Using a laser scanning microscope, we show that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-14 Alexander P. Zhuravel , Steven M. Anlage , Alexey V. Ustinov

Losses in superconducting planar resonators are presently assumed to predominantly arise from surface-oxide dissipation, due to experimental losses varying with choice of materials. We model and simulate the magnitude of the loss from…

We demonstrate ultra-sensitive measurement of fluctuations in a surface-acoustic-wave~(SAW) resonator using a hybrid quantum system consisting of the SAW resonator, a microwave (MW) resonator and a superconducting qubit. The nonlinearity of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Atsushi Noguchi , Rekishu Yamazaki , Yutaka Tabuchi , Yasunobu Nakamura

Magnetic field fluctuations are inevitable in practical applications of superconductors and it is often necessary to estimate the AC losses these fluctuations induce. If the fluctuation wavelength is greater than the size of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-07-04 Leonid Prigozhin , Vladimir Sokolovsky

We consider the fluctuation conductivity in the critical region of a disorder induced quantum phase transition in layered d-wave superconductors. We specifically address the fluctuation contribution to the system's conductivity in the limit…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Tifrea , D. Bodea , I. Grosu , M. Crisan