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Josephson junctions with an intrinsic phase shift of pi, so-called pi Josephson junctions, can be realized by a weak link of a d-wave superconductor with an appropriate boundary geometry. A model for the pairing potential of an according…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Gumann , C. Iniotakis , N. Schopohl

Josephson junctions form the essential non-linearity for almost all superconducting qubits. The junction is formed when two superconducting electrodes come within $\sim$1 nm of each other. Although the capacitance of these electrodes is a…

The generation of travelling sine-Gordon breathers is achieved through the nonlinear supratransmission effect in a magnetically driven long Josephson junction, in the presence of losses, a current bias, and a thermal noise source. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Duilio De Santis , Claudio Guarcello , Bernardo Spagnolo , Angelo Carollo , Davide Valenti

A Josephson junction laser is realised when a microwave cavity is driven by a voltage-biased Josephson junction. Through the ac Josephson effect, a dc voltage generates a periodic drive that acts on the cavity and generates interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Ben Lang , Grace F. Morley , Andrew D. Armour

The twist angle {\gamma} dependence of the Josephson critical current of d-wave superconductors in one junction and a granular system is considered. Our results show that the twist angle {\gamma} dependence of the d-wave Josephson critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-13 E. Afsaneh , H. Yavari

We present a mechanism for emission of electromagnetic terahertz waves by simulation. High $T_{c}$ superconductors form naturally stacked Josephson junctions. When an external current and a magnetic field are applied to the sample, fluxon…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Masashi Tachiki , Mikio Iizuka , Kazuo Minami , Syogo Tejima , Hisashi Nakamura

The Josephson current in a diffusive superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor junction with precessing magnetization is calculated within the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity. When the junction is phase-biased, a stationary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-31 M. Houzet

Recent studies find that even drives far below the superconducting gap frequency may cause drive-induced quasiparticle generation (QPG) across Josephson junctions (JJs) of superconducting qubits (SCQs), posing a serious concern for…

The optical frequency comb has become an indispensable tool for high precision spectroscopy. Also experiments in the field of ultrafast physics rely on the frequency comb technique to generate precisely controlled attosecond optical pulses…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-07 Katarzyna Krajewska , Jerzy Z. Kamiński

The Compton and Thomson radiation spectra, generated in collisions of an electron beam with a powerful laser beam, are studied in the framework of quantum and classical electrodynamics, respectively. We show that there are frequency regimes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 K. Krajewska , M. Twardy , J. Z. Kamiński

We have fabricated and measured a high-Q Josephson junction resonator with a tunable resonance frequency. A dc magnetic flux allows the resonance frequency to be changed by over 10 %. Weak coupling to the environment allows a quality factor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 K. D. Osborn , J. A. Strong , A. J. Sirois , R. W. Simmonds

An extended Josephson junction consists of two superconducting electrodes that are separated by an insulator and it is therefore also a microwave cavity. The superconducting phase difference across the junction determines the supercurrent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-03 V. Humbert , M. Aprili , J. Hammer

We develop an analytic theory for the recently demonstrated Josephson Junction laser (Science 355, p. 939, 2017). By working in the time-domain representation (rather than the frequency-domain) a single non-linear equation is obtained for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-07-18 Steven H. Simon , Nigel R. Cooper

We report that spin supercurrents can be induced in diffusive SFS Josephson junctions without any magnetic misalignment or intrinsic spin orbit coupling. Instead, the pathway to spin triplet generation is provided via geometric curvature,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-25 Tancredi Salamone , Mathias B. M. Svendsen , Morten Amundsen , Sol Jacobsen

The magnetic field dependent critical current $I_{\text{c}}(B)$ of a Josephson junction is determined by the screening currents in its electrodes. In macroscopic junctions, a local vector potential drives the currents, however, in thin film…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-13 Remko Fermin , Bob de Wit and , Jan Aarts

We theoretically investigate the phase-dependent heat transport of a temperature-biased granular Josephson junction in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. We illustrate the influence of geometry of the junction on the thermal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-13 Elaheh Afsaneha , Heshmatolah Yavari

We investigate electromagnetic radiation emitted by a small voltage-biased Josephson junction connected to a superconducting transmission line. At frequencies below the well known emission peak at the Josephson frequency (2eV/h), extra…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 Juha Leppäkangas , Göran Johansson , Michael Marthaler , Mikael Fogelström

We use microwave excitation to elucidate the dynamics of long superconductor / normal metal / superconductor Josephson junctions. By varying the excitation frequency in the range 10 MHz - 40 GHz, we observe that the critical and retrapping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-08 F. Chiodi , M. Aprili , B. Reulet

The response of superconductor-normal-metal-superconductor junctions to magnetic field is complicated and non-universal because all trajectories contributing to supercurrent have a different effective area, and therefore acquire arbitrary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-11 Muhammad Irfan , Anton R. Akhmerov

We report on quantum dot based Josephson junctions designed specifically for measuring the supercurrent. From high-accuracy fitting of the current-voltage characteristics we determine the full magnitude of the supercurrent (critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-09-19 H. Ingerslev Jørgensen , T. Novotný , K. Grove-Rasmussen , K. Flensberg , P. E. Lindelof