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Coulomb blockade (CB) arises in nanoscale systems with ultra-small capacitance, where discrete charging effects dictate electron transport, enabling wide-ranging applications based on single-electron transistors. Despite established…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Junho Bang , Byeongin Lee , Hankyu Lee , Jian-Feng Ge , Doohee Cho

We investigate a ballistic InSb nanoflag-based Josephson junction with Nb superconducting contacts. The high transparency of the superconductor-semiconductor interfaces enables the exploration of quantum transport with parallel short and…

We experimentally investigate the stochastic phase dynamics of planar Josephson junctions (JJs) and superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) defined in epitaxial InAs/Al heterostructures, and characterized by a large ratio of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-27 D. Z. Haxell , E. Cheah , F. Křížek , R. Schott , M. F. Ritter , M. Hinderling , W. Belzig , C. Bruder , W. Wegscheider , H. Riel , F. Nichele

We consider a Josephson contact mediated by 1D chiral modes on a surface of a 3D topological insulator with superimposed superconducting and magnetic layers. The system represents an interferometer in which 1D chiral Majorana modes on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-06 Dmitriy S. Shapiro , Alexander D. Mirlin , Alexander Shnirman

Power generation and synchronisation in Josephson junction arrays have attracted attention for a long time. This stems from fundamental interest in nonlinear coupled systems as well as from potential in practical applications. In this paper…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Hassel , L. Gronberg , P. Helisto , H. Seppa

We realized a time-domain simulator based on the electrodynamics of Cooper pairs and quasiparticles in Josephson junctions. The tool, based on the charge carriers' densities of states described by the Werthamer and Harris formalisms of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-03 Lucas Iwanikow , Pascal Febvre

Charge transfer in a tunnel junction is studied under dc and ac voltage bias using quantum shot noise. Under dc voltage bias $V$, spectral density of noise measured within a very large bandwidth enables to deduce the current-current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-16 Julien Gabelli , Karl Thibault , Gabriel Gasse , Christian Lupien , Bertrand Reulet

Superconducting tunnel junctions constitute the units of superconducting quantum circuits and are massively used both for quantum sensing and quantum computation. In previous works, we predicted the existence of a nonlinear thermoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 G. Marchegiani , A. Braggio , F. Giazotto

In a semiconductor superlattice with long scattering times, damping of Bloch oscillations due to scattering is so small that nonlinearities may compensate it and Bloch oscillations persist even in the hydrodynamic regime. To demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 L. L. Bonilla , M. Álvaro , M. Carretero

We present a detailed study of photonic heat transport across a Josephson junction coupled to two arbitrary linear circuits having different temperatures. First, we consider the linear approximation, in which a nonlinear Josephson potential…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-11 George Thomas , Jukka P. Pekola , Dmitry S. Golubev

The non-linear dependence on applied $ac$ field ($b_{\omega}$) or current ($% i_{\omega}$) of the microwave (ac) impedance $R_{\omega}+iX_{\omega}$ of both short and long Josephson junctions is calculated under a variety of excitation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Z. Zhai , Patanjali V. Parimi , S. Sridhar

The quantum Josephson voltage standard is well established across the metrology community for many years. It relies on the synchronisation of the flux tunneling in the S/I/S Josepson junctions (JJ) with the microwave radiation (MW). The…

The Bloch oscillating transistor (BOT) is a device, where single electron current through a normal tunnel junction can be used to enhance Cooper pair current in a mesoscopic Josephson junction leading to signal amplification. In this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Hassel , H. Seppa

We present theoretical results for the equilibrium Josephson current through an Anderson dot tuned into the magnetic regime, using Hirsch-Fye Monte Carlo simulations covering the complete crossover from Kondo-dominated physics to $\pi$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Siano , R. Egger

We present simulation results on the structure and dynamics of micromagnetic point singularities with atomistic resolution. This is achieved by embedding an atomistic computational region into a standard micromagnetic algorithm. Several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-09 Christian Andreas , Attila Kákay , Riccardo Hertel

A resonantly driven bosonic Josephson junction supports stable collective excitations, or quasiparticles, which constitute analogs of the Trojan wave packets previously explored with Rydberg atoms in strong microwave fields. We predict a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-11-25 Bettina Gertjerenken , Martin Holthaus

We have observed photon-assisted Cooper-pair tunneling in an atomic-scale Josephson junction formed between a superconducting Nb tip and a superconducting Nb sample in a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) at 30 mK. High-resolution…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-23 A. Roychowdhury , M. Dreyer , J. R. Anderson , C. J. Lobb , F. C. Wellstood

Superconductor digital electronics using Josephson junctions as ultrafast switches and magnetic-flux encoding of information was proposed over 30 years ago as a sub-terahertz clock frequency alternative to semiconductor electronics based on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-03 Sergey K. Tolpygo

The weak quantum signal amplification is an essential task in quantum computing. In this study, a recently introduced structure of Josephson junctions array called Blochnium (N series Quarton structure) is utilized as a parametric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 A. Salmanogli , H. Zandi , M. Akbari

We present a non-equilibrium quasiclassical formalism suitable for studying linear response ac properties of Josephson junctions. The non-equilibrium self-consistency equations are satisfied, to very good accuracy, already in zeroth…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 M. H. S. Amin