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We demonstrate a Josephson junction with a weak link containing two ferromagnets, with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and independent switching fields in which the critical current can be set by the mutual orientation of the two layers.…

We study the phenomenon of macroscopic quantum tunneling (MQT) in a finite size Josephson junction (JJ) with an externally applied magnetic field. As it is well known, the problem of MQT in a point-like JJ is reduced to the study of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-07-18 Yu. N. Ovchinnikov , A. Barone , A. A. Varlamov

We investigate, by experiments and numerical simulations, thermal activation processes of Josephson tunnel junctions in the presence of microwave radiation. When the applied signal resonates with the Josephson plasma frequency oscillations,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-08-28 N. Grønbech-Jensen , M. G. Castellano , F. Chiarello , M. Cirillo , C. Cosmelli , V. Merlo , R. Russo , G. Torrioli

We propose the phase dynamics induced by spin waves in a superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor (SC/FM/SC) Josephson junction. The resistively shunted junction (RSJ) model, which describes the dynamics of superconducting phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Hikino , M. Mori , S. Takahashi , S. Maekawa

We study the influence of external electric and Zeeman fields on the Josephson effect in a planar superconductor/altermagnet/superconductor junction. Remarkably, we find that the current-phase relation (CPR) can be forward or backward…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-09 Hai-Peng Sun , Song-Bo Zhang , Chang-An Li , Björn Trauzettel

We have constructed a new type of amplifier whose primary purpose is the readout of superconducting quantum bits. It is based on the transition of an RF-driven Josephson junction between two distinct oscillation states near a dynamical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Siddiqi , R. Vijay , F. Pierre , C. M. Wilson , L. Frunzio , M. Metcalfe , C. Rigetti , M. H. Devoret

Strain-controlled modulation of the magnetic switching behavior in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) could provide the energy efficiency needed to accelerate the use of MTJs in memory, logic, and neuromorphic computing, as well as an…

A magnetic field induced electric polarization and the corresponding change of an effective junction capacitance are considered within a 3D model of disordered Josephson junction arrays. At some threshold field (near the Josephson network…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei A. Sergeenkov

Josephson junction field-effect transistors (JJFETs) have recently re-emerged as promising candidates for superconducting computing. For JJFETs to perform Boolean logic operations, the so-called gain factor $\alpha_{R}$ must be larger than…

The role of universal memory can be successfully satisfied by magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) where the writing mechanism is based on spin-transfer torque (STT). An improvement in the switching properties (lower switching current density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Riccardo Tomasello , Vito Puliafito , Bruno Azzerboni , Giovanni Finocchio

Scaling superconducting quantum processors to large qubit counts faces challenges in control signal delivery, thermal management, and hardware complexity, particularly in achieving microwave signal multiplexing and long-distance quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Mustafa Bakr

Topological Josephson junctions (JJs), which contain Majorana bound states, are expected to exhibit 4$\pi$-periodic current-phase relation, thereby resulting in doubled Shapiro steps under microwave irradiation. We performed numerical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-12-30 Yeongmin Jang , Yong-Joo Doh

In this proposal, we present an experimental setup based on superconducting circuits and Josephson junctions to explore the modification of Josephson coefficient in the presence of external magnetic field due to vacuum polarization of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-02 Ali Izadi Rad

We propose and analyze a mesoscopic Josephson junction consisting of two ferromagnetic insulator-superconductors (FI-Ss) coupled through a normal metal (N) layer. The Josephson current of the junction is non-trivially affected by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-28 E. Strambini , F. S. Bergeret , F. Giazotto

We demonstrate that a Josephson junction with a half-metallic weak link integrated into the superconducting loop enables the pumping of magnetic flux piercing the loop. In such junctions, the ground state phase $\psi$ is determined by the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-29 S. Mironov , H. Meng , A. Buzdin

We consider a spatially inhomogeneous sine-Gordon equation with a time-periodic drive, modeling a microwave driven long Josephson junction with phase-shifts. Under appropriate conditions, Josephson junctions with phase-shifts can have a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-03-17 Amir Ali , Hadi Susanto , Jonathan Wattis

We investigate resonance phenomena in a system consisting of a nanomagnet coupled to a Josephson junction under external periodic drive. The coupling in the system leads to appearance of additional resonance peaks whose properties depend on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-14 K. V. Kulikov , D. V. Anghel , M. Nashaat , M. Dolineanu , M. Sameh , Yu. M. Shukrinov

The radio-frequency (RF) voltage amplification property of a tunnel magnetoresistance device driven by an RF external-magnetic-field-induced ferromagnetic resonance was studied. The proposed device consists of a magnetic tunnel junction…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-31 K. Konishi , D. K. Dixit , A. A. Tulapurkar , S. Miwa , T. Nozaki , H. Kubota , A. Fukushima , S. Yuasa , Y. Suzuki

Josephson junctions (JJ) are essential for superconducting quantum technologies and searches of self-conjugate quasiparticles, pivotal for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Measuring the current-phase relation (CPR) in JJ based on…

We report the fabrication and testing, at 4.2 K, of an SISFS device, where S, F, and I denote a superconductor (Nb), a ferromagnetic material (permalloy), and an insulator (AlOx), respectively. The F layer covers about one half of the top…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-06 Ivan Nevirkovets , Oleg Mukhanov