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We review experiments on small-capacitance Josephson junctions. When the Josephson junction is fabricated in the configuration of dc superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), the Josephson coupling can be tuned IN SITU with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michio Watanabe , David B. Haviland

Short ballistic graphene Josephson junctions sustain superconducting current with a non-sinusoidal current-phase relation up to a critical current threshold. The current-phase relation, arising from proximitized superconductivity, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-09 Francesco M. D. Pellegrino , Giuseppe Falci , Elisabetta Paladino

We present measurements on one-dimensional Josephson junction arrays formed by a chain of SQUID loops in the regime where $E_J / E_c\simeq 1$. We observe a blockaded zero current branch for small bias voltages. Above a certain voltage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-17 Roland Schäfer , Wanyin Cui , Kai Grube , Hannes Rotzinger , Alexey V. Ustinov

We replace the Josephson junction defining a three-junction flux qubit's properties with a tunable direct current superconducting quantum interference devices (DC-SQUID) in order to tune the qubit gap during the experiment. We observe…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 Xiaobo Zhu , Alexander Kemp , Shiro Saito , Kouichi Semba

I review anomalous single and multi-fluxon properties of Stacked Josephson junctions (SJJ's). Throughout the paper I compare analytical, numerical and experimental results both for intrinsic HTSC and artificial low-$T_c$ SJJ's. Table of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Krasnov

We investigated, at temperature $4.2\,\mathrm{K}$, electric transport, flux noise and resulting spin sensitivity of miniaturized Nb direct current superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) based on submicron Josephson junctions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 J. Nagel , O. F. Kieler , T. Weimann , R. Wölbing , J. Kohlmann , A. B. Zorin , R. Kleiner , D. Koelle , M. Kemmler

A new type of a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) based on a single superconducting loop without Josephson junctions and with asymmetric link-up of current leads is proposed. This SQUID offers advantages in simplicity of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-19 A. A. Burlakov , V. L. Gurtovoi , A. I. Ilin , A. V. Nikulov , V. A. Tulin

Due to the structure of the underlying SO(3) $\mathbf d$-vector order parameter, spin triplet superconductors exhibit a bulk-edge correspondence linking the circulation of supercurrent to the bulk magnetic skyrmion density, giving rise to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Chau Dao , Eric Kleinherbers , Bjørnulf Brekke , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Micron-sized superconducting interference devices ($\mu$-SQUIDs) based on constrictions optimized for minimizing thermal runaway are shown to exhibit voltage oscillations with applied magnetic flux despite their hysteretic behavior. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-28 Sourav Biswas , Clemens B. Winkelmann , Hervé Courtois , Anjan K. Gupta

New modes of the magnetic flux penetration in SQUIDs with ferromagnetic junctions are predicted theoretically. Characteristic multinode anharmonicity of the current-phase relation implies the coexistence of stable and metastable 0 and $\pi$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Radovic , L. Dobrosavljevic-Grujic , B. Vujicic

We present transport measurements of unshunted dc superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) consisting of 30 nm wide aluminum nanobridges of varying length L contacted with two and three dimensional banks. 3D nanobridge SQUIDs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Vijay , E. M. Levenson-Falk , D. H. Slichter , I. Siddiqi

We investigate the transient dynamics of a lumped-element oscillator based on a dc superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). The SQUID is shunted with a capacitor forming a nonlinear oscillator with resonance frequency in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-16 P. Bhupathi , Peter Groszkowski , M. P. DeFeo , Matthew Ware , Frank K. Wilhelm , B. L. T. Plourde

In the customary mode of operation of a SQUID, the electromagnetic field in the SQUID is an oscillatory function of time. In this situation, electromagnetic radiation is emitted, and couples to the sample. This is a back-action that can…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-06 Jorge Berger

We consider a one-dimensional Josephson junction array, in the regime where the junction charging energy is much greater than the charging energy of the superconducting islands. In this regime we critically reexamine the continuum limit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Gurarie , A. M. Tsvelik

We present a theoretical model for 2D SQUID and SQIF arrays with over-damped Josephson junctions for uniform bias current injection at 77 K. Our simulations demonstrate the importance of including Johnson thermal noise and reveal that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-15 Marc A. Gali Labarias , Karl-H. Muller , Emma E. Mitchell

We show analytically that the dynamical equations for an underdamped ladder of coupled small Josephson junctions can be approximately reduced to the discrete sine-Gordon equation. As numerical confirmation, we solve the coupled Josephson…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Seungoh Ryu , Wenbin Yu , D. Stroud

We investigate numerically the critical current of two-dimensional fully frustrated arrays of resistively shunted Josephson junctions at zero temperature. It is shown that a domino-type mechanism is responsible for the existence of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Beom Jun Kim , Petter Minnhagen

We investigate the occurrence of direct and dual Shapiro steps for a Josephson junction coupled to a finite-size transmission line resonator. We treat both problems through a circuit QED approach with a large, but finite number of photon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 Federico Borletto , Luca Giacomelli , Cristiano Ciuti

Modern Superconducting QUantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) are commonly fabricated from either Al or Nb electrodes, with an in-situ oxidation process to create a weak link between them. However, common problems of such planar nano- and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-18 Liam S. Farrar , Aimee Nevill , Zhen Jieh Lim , Geetha Balakrishnan , Sara Dale , Simon J. Bending

We evaluate the dispersion relation for massless fermions, described by the Dirac equation, and for zero-spin bosons, described by the Klein-Gordon equation, moving in two dimensions and in the presence of a one-dimensional periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 M. Barbier , F. M. Peeters , P. Vasilopoulos , J. Milton Pereira