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The Josephson diode (JD) is a non-reciprocal circuit element that supports a larger critical current in one direction compared to the other. This effect has gained a growing interest because of promising applications in superconducting…

Superconducting metamaterials comprising rf SQUIDs (Superconducting QUantum Interference Devices) have been recently realized and investigated with respect to their tuneability, permeability and dynamic multistability properties. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 G. P. Tsironis , N. Lazarides , I. Margaris

The predominant d-wave pairing symmetry in high temperature superconductors allows for a variety of current-phase relations in Josephson junctions, which is to a certain degree fabrication controlled. In this letter we report on direct…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Lindstrom , S. A. Charlebois , A. Ya. Tzalenchuk , Z. Ivanov , M. H. S. Amin , A. M. Zagoskin

We consider a qubit governed by a sequence of weak measurements, with the measurement strength modified in a time- and state-dependent manner. The resulting trajectory of the qubit in the phase space can be weakly controlled without any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Ihar Babushkin

We discuss heat transport in a thermally-biased SQUID in the presence of an external magnetic flux, when a non-negligible inductance of the SQUID ring is taken into account. A properly sweeping driving flux causes the thermal current to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-04-27 Claudio Guarcello , Paolo Solinas , Massimiliano Di Ventra , Francesco Giazotto

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 study a carbon nanotube quantum dot embedded into a SQUID loop in order to investigate the competition of strong electron correlations with proximity effect. Depending whether local pairing or local magnetism prevails, a superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-16 Romain Maurand , Tobias Meng , Edgar Bonet , Serge Florens , Laëtitia Marty , Wolfgang Wernsdorfer

Motivated by recent experiments we study the influence of thermal noise on the phase slips in toroidal Bose-Einstein condensates with a rotating weak link. We derive a generalized Arrhenius-like expression for the rate of stochastic phase…

We investigate experimentally the physics of quantum phase slips in one-dimensional Josephson Junction chains. These quantum phase-slips are induced by quantum phase fluctuations occurring on single junctions of the chain. In our experiment…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-14 I. M. Pop , I. Protopopov , F. Lecocq , Z. Peng , B. Pannetier , O. Buisson , W. Guichard

Usually, the superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) consists of two Josephson junctions and the interference therein is modulated by a magnetic flux. In this work, we propose an electrically modulated SQUID consisting of single…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-31 Yong Xu , Salah Uddin , Jun Wang , Zhongshui Ma , Jun-Feng Liu

Studying nanoscale dynamics is essential for understanding quantum materials and advancing quantum chip manufacturing. Still, it remains a major challenge to measure non-equilibrium properties such as current and dissipation, and their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Matthijs Rog , Tycho J. Blom , Daan B. Boltje , Jimi D. de Haan , Remko Fermin , Jiasen Niu , Yasmin C. Doedes , Milan P. Allan , Kaveh Lahabi

The escape probability out of the superconducting state of a hysteretic DC-SQUID has been measured at different values of the applied magnetic flux. At low temperature, the escape current and the width of the probability distribution are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Balestro , J. Claudon , J. P. Pekola , O. Buisson

In this paper we explore the quantum behaviour of a SQUID ring which has a significant Josephson coupling energy. We show that that the eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian for the ring can be used to create macroscopic quantum superposition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. J. Everitt , T. D. Clark , P. B. Stiffell , A. Vourdas , J. F. Ralph , R. J. Prance , H. Prance

Based on the superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) equations described by the resistively- and capacitively-shunted junction model coupled to the equation of motion of a damped harmonic oscillator, we provide simulations to…

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

Superconducting granular aluminum is attracting increasing interest due to its high kinetic inductance and low dissipation, favoring its use in kinetic inductance particle detectors, superconducting resonators or quantum bits. We perform…

Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) show great promise as quantum bits (qubits) but continue to be hindered by flux noise. The flux noise power spectra of SQUIDs go as $1/f^\alpha$, where $\alpha$ is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 D. L. Mickelsen , Ruqian Wu , Clare C. Yu

We present a theory for the frequency-dependent current fluctuations in superconducting quantum point-contacts (SQPC) within the dc transport regime. This theory is valid for any barrier transparency between the tunnel and ballistic limits,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Martin-Rodero , A. Levy Yeyati , F. J. Garcia-Vidal

We present a systematic study of the phase-coherent dynamics of a superconducting three-Josephson-junction flux qubit. The qubit state is detected with the integrated-pulse method, which is a variant of the pulsed switching DC SQUID method.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-09-19 F. Deppe , M. Mariantoni , E. P. Menzel , S. Saito , K. Kakuyanagi , H. Tanaka , T. Meno , K. Semba , H. Takayanagi , R. Gross

Mesoscopic superconducting-normal-metal-superconducting (S-N-S) junctions with a large separation between the superconducting electrodes (i.e. wide junctions) exhibit nonequilibrium supercurrents, even at temperatures for which the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Nathan Argaman