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We study the synchronization in a one dimensional array of point Josephson junctions coupled to a common capacitor, which establishes a long-range interaction between junctions and synchronizes them. The stability diagram of synchronization…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-19 Shi-Zeng Lin , Xiao Hu , Lev Bulaevskii

New resonance steps are found in the experimental current-voltage characteristics of long, discrete, one-dimensional Josephson junction arrays with open boundaries and in an external magnetic field. The junctions are underdamped, connected…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 A. E. Duwel , S. Watanabe , E. Trias , T. P. Orlando , H. S. J. van der Zant , S. H. Strogatz

We have studied quantum phase-slip (QPS) phenomena in long one-dimensional Josephson junction series arrays with tunable Josephson coupling. These chains were fabricated with as many as 2888 junctions, where one sample had a tunable weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Adem Ergül , Jack Lidmar , Jan Johansson , Yağız Azizoğlu , David Schaeffer , David B. Haviland

We propose a threshold detector for L\'evy distributed fluctuations based on a Josephson junction. The L\'evy noise current added to a linearly ramped bias current results in clear changes in the distribution of switching currents out of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-25 Claudio Guarcello , Davide Valenti , Bernardo Spagnolo , Vincenzo Pierro , Giovanni Filatrella

We study occupation of certain regions of phase space of an asymmetric superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) driven by thermal noise, subjected to an external ac current and threaded by a constant magnetic flux. Thermally…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-25 Jakub Spiechowicz , Jerzy Łuczka

We explore the effect of noise on the ballistic graphene-based small Josephson junctions in the framework of the resistively and capacitively shunted model. We use the non-sinusoidal current-phase relation specific for graphene layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-07 Claudio Guarcello , Davide Valenti , Bernardo Spagnolo , Vincenzo Pierro , Giovanni Filatrella

The dissipative dynamics of a pointlike Josephson junction in binary Bose-condensed mixtures is analyzed within the framework of the model of a tunneling Hamiltonian. The transmission of unlike particles across a junction is described by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-27 S. N. Burmistrov

The noise spectra associated with correlations of the current through a single level quantum dot, and with the charge fluctuations on the dot, are calculated for a finite bias voltage. The results turn out to be sensitive to the asymmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. A. Rothstein , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony

The decrease of the barrier transparency in superconductor-insulator-superconductor (SIS) Josephson junctions leads to the deviations of the current-phase relation from the sinusoidal form. The sign of second harmonics is important for many…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-05-27 P. Kh. Atanasova , T. L. Boyadjiev , Yu. M. Shukrinov , E. V. Zemlyanaya

Spectral density of current fluctuations in a short ballistic superconducting quantum point contact is calculated for arbitrary bias voltages $V$. Contrary to a common opinion that the supercurrent flow in Josephson junctions is coherent…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Averin , H. Imam

We developed a weak-linked Josephson junction time-domain simulation tool based on the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory to account for the electrodynamics of Cooper pairs and quasiparticles in the presence of thermal noise. The model,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-16 Lucas Iwanikow , Pascal Febvre

We have measured the influence of shot noise on hysteretic Josephson junctions initially in macroscopic quantum tunnelling (MQT) regime. Escape threshold current into the resistive state decreases monotonically with increasing average…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. P. Pekola , T. E. Nieminen , M. Meschke , J. M. Kivioja , A. O. Niskanen , J. J. Vartiainen

We analyze phase interferometry realized with a bosonic Josephson junction made of trapped dilute and ultracold atoms. By using a suitable phase sensitivity indicator we study the zero temperature junction states useful to achieve sub…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-03-08 G. Mazzarella

We report on the switching current distributions in nano-hybrid Josephson junctions made of InAs semiconductor nanowires. Temperature dependence of the switching current distribution can be understood by motion of Josephson phase particle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-17 Bum-Kyu Kim , Yong-Joo Doh

We have investigated the influence of shot noise on the IV-curves of a single mesoscopic Josephson junction. We find that the blockade of the Cooper pair current is strongly suppressed in the presence of shot noise due to tunnelling in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Delahaye , R. Lindell , M. S. Sillanpää , M. A. Paalanen , E. B. Sonin , P. J. Hakonen

In this work we study by numerical methods the phase dynamics in ballistic graphene-based short Josephson junctions. The supercurrent through a graphene junction shows a non-sinusoidal phase-dependence, unlike a conventional junction ruled…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-12-09 Claudio Guarcello , Davide Valenti , Bernardo Spagnolo

We study the dynamics of multi-junction switching (MJS): several intrinsic Josephson junctions (IJJs) in an array switch to the finite voltage state simultaneously. The number of multi-switching junctions ($N$) was successfully tuned by…

We show a noise-induced transition in Josephson junction with fundamental as well as second harmonic. A periodically modulated multiplicative colored noise can stabilize an unstable configuration in such a system. The stabilization of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-06 Nivedita Bhadra

We study the emergence of dissipation in an atomic Josephson junction between weakly-coupled superfluid Fermi gases. We find that vortex-induced phase slippage is the dominant microscopic source of dissipation across the BEC-BCS crossover.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-01-17 A. Burchianti , F. Scazza , A. Amico , G. Valtolina , J. A. Seman , C. Fort , M. Zaccanti , M. Inguscio , G. Roati

Mesoscopic superconducting-normal-metal-superconducting (S-N-S) junctions with a large separation between the superconducting electrodes (i.e. wide junctions) exhibit nonequilibrium supercurrents, even at temperatures for which the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Nathan Argaman