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We report the direct observation of resistive flow through a weak link in a weakly interacting atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. Two weak links separate our ring-shaped superfluid atomtronic circuit into two distinct regions, a source and a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-07-30 F. Jendrzejewski , S. Eckel , N. Murray , C. Lanier , M. Edwards , C. J. Lobb , G. K. Campbell

The interplay of superconductivity, magnetic fields, and spin-orbit interaction lies at the heart of topological superconductivity. Remarkably, the recent experimental discovery of $\varphi_{0}$ Josephson junctions by Szombati et al., Nat.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Constantin Schrade , Silas Hoffman , Daniel Loss

We study the dynamics of the Mott insulator-superfluid quantum phase transition in a periodic 1D array of Josephson junctions. We show that crossing the critical point diabatically i.e. at a finite rate with a quench time $\tau_Q$ induces…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Dziarmaga , A. Smerzi , W. H. Zurek , A. R. Bishop

We predict a new mechanism to induce collective excitations and a nonequilibrium phase transition of fermionic superfluids via a sudden switch-on of two-body loss, for which we extend the BCS theory to fully incorporate a change in particle…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-08-02 Kazuki Yamamoto , Masaya Nakagawa , Naoto Tsuji , Masahito Ueda , Norio Kawakami

We study the dynamics of Josephson junction arrays with positional disorder and driven by an external current. We consider weak magnetic fields, corresponding to a frustration $f=n+1/25$ with $n$ integer. We find that above the critical…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Daniel Dominguez

Based on a tunneling Hamiltonian description, we calculate the Josephson, normal and interference currents between two Bose-Einstein condensates described by the Bogoliubov theory. The dominant Josephson term is of first order in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Meier , W. Zwerger

We consider a fractional Josephson vortex in a long 0-kappa Josephson junction. A uniformly applied bias current exerts a Lorentz force on the vortex. If the bias current exceeds the critical current, an integer fluxon is torn off the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-02 U. Kienzle , T. Gaber , K. Buckenmaier , K. Ilin , M. Siegel , D. Koelle , R. Kleiner , E. Goldobin

We examine the properties of atomic current in a superfluid oscillating circuit consisting of a mesoscopic channel that connects two reservoirs of a Bose-Einstein condensate. We investigate the presence of a critical current in the channel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Xue Yang , Wenkai Bai , Chen Jiao , Wu-Ming Liu , Jun-Hui Zheng , Tao Yang

We have studied the temporal evolution of a quantum system subjected to strong dissipation at ultra-low temperatures where the system-bath interaction represents the leading energy scale. In this regime, theory predicts the time evolution…

In a recent article, Kwon et al. [Nature (London) {\bf 600}, 64 (2021)] revealed nonuniversal dissipative dynamics of quantum vortices in a fermionic superfluid. The enhancement of the dissipative process is pronounced for the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-01-30 Andrea Barresi , Antoine Boulet , Piotr Magierski , Gabriel Wlazłowski

The dynamics of thermally excited vortices in a dilute two-dimensional Josephson junction array where a fraction of the superconducting islands is missing has been investigated using a multiple trapping model. An expression for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Md. Ashrafuzzaman , Massimiliano Capezzali , Hans Beck

We theoretically investigate the escape rate occurring via quantum tunneling in a system affected by tailored dissipation. Specifically, we study the environmental assisted quantum tunneling of the superconducting phase in a current-biased…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Dominik Maile , Joachim Ankerhold , Sabine Andergassen , Wolfgang Belzig , Gianluca Rastelli

Electronic transport in Fermi liquids is usually Ohmic, because of momentum-relaxing scattering due to defects and phonons. These processes can become sufficiently weak in two-dimensional materials, giving rise to either ballistic or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-31 Mani Chandra , Gitansh Kataria , Deshdeep Sahdev

After almost half a century since the work of Anderson [Phys. Rev. {\bf 109}, 1492 (1958)], at present there is no well established theoretical framework for understanding the dynamics of interacting particles in the presence of disorder.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-12-01 S. G. Bhongale , Paata Kakashvili , C. J. Bolech , H. Pu

We discuss correlated lattice models with a time-dependent potential across a barrier and show how to implement a Josephson-junction-like behavior. The pairing occurs by a correlation effect enhanced by the symmetry of the system. In order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefano Bellucci , Michele Cini , Pasquale Onorato , Enrico Perfetto

The non-equilibrium properties of a driven quasi-one dimensional superconducting ring subjected to a constant electromotive force ({\it emf}) is studied. The {\it emf} accelerates the superconducting electrons until the critical current is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Mikko Karttunen , K. R. Elder , Martin B. Tarlie , Martin Grant

We study the instability of a superfluid flow through a constriction in three spatial dimensions. We consider a Bose-Einstein condensate at zero temperature in two different geometries: a straight waveguide and a torus. The constriction…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-04-11 F. Piazza , L. A. Collins , A. Smerzi

We study the canonical problem of a Fermi gas interacting with a weakly repulsive Bose-Einstein condensate at zero temperature. To explore the quantum phases across the full range of boson-fermion interactions, we construct a versatile…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-21 Sam Foster , Olivier Bleu , Jesper Levinsen , Meera M. Parish

We investigate theoretically the dynamics of a Josephson junction in the framework of the RSJ model. We consider a junction that hosts two supercurrrent contributions: a $2\pi$- and a $4\pi$-periodic in phase, with intensities $I_{2\pi}$…

The superconducting circuits involving Josephson junction offer macroscopic quantum two-level system (qubit) which are coupled to cavity resonators and are operated via microwave signals. In this work, we study the dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Prashant Shukla