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We investigate the coherent energy and thermal transport in a temperature-biased long Josephson tunnel junction, when a Josephson vortex, i.e., a soliton, steadily drifts driven by an electric bias current. We demonstrate that thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-06 Claudio Guarcello , Paolo Solinas , Alessandro Braggio , Francesco Giazotto

Motivated by recent experiments (Subero et. al. Nature Comm. $\bf{14}$, 7924 (2023)) we analyze photonic heat transport through a Josephson junction in a dissipative environment. For this purpose we derive general expressions for the heat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 A. Levy Yeyati , D. Subero , J. Pekola , R. Sánchez

We explore the coherent thermal transport sustained by solitons through a long Josephson junction, as a thermal gradient across the system is established. We observe that a soliton causes the heat current through the system to increase.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-22 Claudio Guarcello , Paolo Solinas , Alessandro Braggio , Francesco Giazotto

In this work we study by numerical methods the phase dynamics in ballistic graphene-based short Josephson junctions. The supercurrent through a graphene junction shows a non-sinusoidal phase-dependence, unlike a conventional junction ruled…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-12-09 Claudio Guarcello , Davide Valenti , Bernardo Spagnolo

At zero temperature, a Josephson junction coupled to an ohmic environment displays a quantum phase transition between superconducting and insulating phases, depending whether the resistance of the environment is below or above the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-21 Tsuyoshi Yamamoto , Leonid I. Glazman , Manuel Houzet

We construct a gravitational dual of a Josephson junction. Calculations on the gravity side reproduce the standard relation between the current across the junction and the phase difference of the condensate. We also study the dependence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-02-24 Gary T. Horowitz , Jorge E. Santos , Benson Way

We present an exhaustive study of the coherent heat transport through superconductor-ferromagnet(S-F) Josephson junctions including a spin-filter (I$_{sf}$) tunneling barrier. By using the quasiclassical Keldysh Green's function technique…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-07-23 F. S. Bergeret , F. Giazotto

We study the thermodynamic properties of topological Josephson junctions using a quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator-based junction as an example. In particular, we propose that phase-dependent measurements of the heat capacity offer an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 Benedikt Scharf , Alessandro Braggio , Elia Strambini , Francesco Giazotto , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

We report our progress in the high-temperature superconductor (HTS) Josephson junction fabrication process founded on using a focused helium ion beam damaging technique and discuss the expected device performance attainable with the HTS…

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

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

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

Circulators are nonreciprocal devices that enable directional signal routing. Nonreciprocity, which requires time-reversal symmetry breaking, can be produced in waveguides in which the propagation medium moves relative to the waveguide at a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Dat Thanh Le , Arkady Fedorov , Thomas M. Stace

Multiterminal Josephson junctions are a promising platform to host synthetic topological phases of matter and Floquet states. However, the energy scales governing topological protection in these devices are on the order of the spacing…

We theoretically investigate the supercurrent flow in a Josephson junction consisting of two spin-split superconductors combined by a normal metal weak link. The normal metal may be driven out of equilibrium, thus modifying the electron and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-06 Chi Sun , Jacob Linder

A Josephson tunnel junction transistor based on quasiparticle injection is proposed. Its operation relies on the manipulation of the electron distribution in one of the junction electrodes. This is accomplished by injecting quasiparticle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-07-12 F. Giazotto , J. P. Pekola

We study the Josephson current in a junction comprising two superconductors linked by a strong ferromagnet in presence of impurities. We focus on a regime where the electron (and hole) motion is ballistic over the exchange length and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Konschelle , J. Cayssol , A. Buzdin

Thermal fluctuations of the Josephson current $I$ induced by the magnetic flux through a ring of $N$ superconducting grains are studied. When a half-fluxon is threading the ring, $I$ exhibits incoherent transitions between the two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-01 D. A. Garanin , E. M. Chudnovsky

In this report we analyse three effects which may arise in a mesoscopic multiterminal S/N structure (two normal and two superconducting reservoirs). We show that the Josephson critical current is a non-monotonic function of a voltage…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. F. Volkov , R. Seviour

We study numerically the interplay of phase coherence and vortex-glass state in two-dimensional Josephson-junction arrays with average rational values of flux quantum per plaquette $f$ and random dilution of junctions. For $f=1/2$, we find…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Enzo Granato , Daniel Dominguez