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We show that Josephson junctions made of multiband semiconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling carry a critical supercurrent $I_c$ that contains information about the non-trivial topology of the system. In particular, we find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-22 Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada , Ramón Aguado

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

An odd-occupied quantum dot in a Josephson junction can flip transmission phase, creating a {\pi}-junction. When the junction couples topological superconductors, no phase flip is expected. We investigate this and related effects in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 D. Razmadze , E. C. T. O'Farrell , P. Krogstrup , C. M. Marcus

Topological superconductivity holds promise for fault-tolerant quantum computing. While planar Josephson junctions are attractive candidates to realize this exotic state, direct phase-measurements as the fingerprint of the topological…

Josephson junctions with three or more superconducting leads have been predicted to exhibit topological effects in the presence of few conducting modes within the interstitial normal material. Such behavior, of relevance for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Gino V. Graziano , Joon Sue Lee , Mihir Pendharkar , Chris Palmstrøm , Vlad S. Pribiag

We study the onset of dissipation in an atomic Josephson junction between Fermi superfluids in the molecular Bose-Einstein condensation limit of strong attraction. Our simulations identify the critical population imbalance and the maximum…

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 study the effect of dissipation on quantum phase fluctuations in d-wave superconductors. Dissipation, arising from a nonzero low frequency optical conductivity which has been measured in experiments below $T_c$, has two effects: (1) a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Benfatto , S. Caprara , C. Castellani , A. Paramekanti , M. Randeria

We study the behavior of a topological Josephson junction in which two topological superconductors are coupled through a quantum dot. We focus on the case with the bulk superconducting gap being the largest energy scale. Two parameter…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-05-11 Yu-Li Lee , Yu-Wen Lee

The Josephson junction is the fundamental nonlinear building block of superconducting quantum technologies. Its macroscopic quantum tunneling physics underpins superconducting quantum computing, sensing, and communication, but scaling these…

We numerically demonstrate and characterize the emergence of distinct dynamical regimes of a finite temperature bosonic superfluid in an elongated Josephson junction generated by a thin Gaussian barrier over the entire temperature range…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-18 Klejdja Xhani , Nikolaos P. Proukakis

Fractional Josephson effect is a unique character of Majorana Fermions in topological superconductor system. This effect is very difficult to detect experimentally because of the disturbance of quasiparticle poisoning and unwanted couplings…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-10 Zhen-Tao Zhang , Zheng-Yuan Xue , Yang Yu

Recent experimental advancements in dissipation control have yielded significant insights into non-hermitian Hamiltonians for open quantum systems. Of particular interest are the topological characteristics exhibited by these non-hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 David Christian Ohnmacht , Valentin Wilhelm , Hannes Weisbrich , Wolfgang Belzig

Josephson junctions made of conventional superconductors display Fraunhofer-like oscillations of the critical current as a function of the threaded magnetic flux. When the superconductors are deposited on the surface of a three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Omri Lesser , Joon Young Park , Yuval Ronen , Thomas Werkmeister , Philip Kim , Yuval Oreg

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

Equations describing the resistive state of a layered superconductor with anisotropic pairing are derived. The similarity with a stack of Josephson junctions is found at small voltages only, when current density in the direction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 S. N. Artemenko , A. G. Kobelkov

We study a superconducting artificial atom which is represented by a single Josephson junction or a Josephson junction chain, capacitively coupled to a coherently driven transmission line, and which contains exactly one residual…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-12-29 D. V. Nguyen , G. Catelani , D. M. Basko

Josephson junctions supply the nonlinear inductance element in superconducting qubits. In the widely used transmon configuration, where the junction is shunted by a large capacitor, the low charging energy minimizes the sensitivity of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Maxwell Wisne , Yanpei Deng , Hilal Cansizoglu , Cameron Kopas , Josh Mutus , Venkat Chandrasekhar

We theoretically investigate the escape rate occurring via quantum tunneling in a system affected by tailored dissipation. Specifically, we study the environmental assisted quantum tunneling of the superconducting phase in a current-biased…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Dominik Maile , Joachim Ankerhold , Sabine Andergassen , Wolfgang Belzig , Gianluca Rastelli

Conventional superconductor/insulator/superconductor (SIS) Josephson junctions, devices where two superconductors are separated by a tunnel barrier are technologically important as elements in quantum circuits, particularly with their key…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-19 Venkat Chandrasekhar