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Josephson junctions containing ferromagnetic layers have generated interest for application in cryogenic memory. In a junction containing both a magnetically hard fixed layer and soft free layer with carefully chosen thicknesses, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-22 Alexander E. Madden , Joshua C. Willard , Reza Loloee , Norman O. Birge

A superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) was prepared on a micron-sized single crystal using a selected growth domain of a thin film of $CeCoIn_5$ grown by molecular beam epitaxy. SQUID voltage oscillations of good quality were…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-16 Oleksandr Foyevtsov , Fabrizio Porrati , Michael Huth

A current bias dc SQUID behaves as an anharmonic quantum oscillator controlled by a bias current and an applied magnetic flux. We consider here its two level limit consisting of the two lower energy states $| 0 \right>$ and $| 1 \right>$.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Claudon , A. Fay , L. P. Lévy , O. Buisson

A new type of a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) based on a single superconducting loop without Josephson junctions and with asymmetric link-up of current leads is proposed. This SQUID offers advantages in simplicity of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-19 A. A. Burlakov , V. L. Gurtovoi , A. I. Ilin , A. V. Nikulov , V. A. Tulin

By coupling a quantum detector, a superconductor-insulator-superconductor junction, to a Josephson junction \textit{via} a resonant circuit we probe the high frequency properties, namely the ac complex admittance and the current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-02 Julien Basset , Hélène Bouchiat , Richard Deblock

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

This letter presents fabrication and characterization of an optimized SQUIPT (superconducting quantum interference proximity transistor). The present device, characterized with reduced tunnel junction area and shortened normal-metal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-31 Robab Najafi Jabdaraghi , Matthias Meschke , Jukka Pekola

Fluxon dynamics in the dc-biased array of asymmetric three-junction superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) is investigated. The array of SQUIDs is described by the discrete double sine-Gordon equation. It appears that this…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-11-24 Yaroslav Zolotaryuk , Ivan O. Starodub

We present direct measurements of the current-phase relation for lateral Josephson junctions with a graphene barrier, obtained by a phase-sensitive SQUID interferometry technique. We find that the current-phase relation is forward skewed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-01 Christopher English , David Hamilton , Cesar Chialvo , Ion Moraru , Nadya Mason , Dale Van Harlingen

Josephson superconducting qubits and parametric amplifiers are prominent examples of superconducting quantum circuits that have shown rapid progress in recent years. With the growing complexity of such devices, the requirements for…

The thermal response of proximity Josephson junctions (JJs) is governed by the temperature ($T$)-dependent occupation of Andreev bound states (ABS), making them promising candidates for sensitive thermal detection. In this study, we…

We have measured the low frequency critical current noise in Nb/AlO$_{\mathrm{x}}$/Nb Josephson junctions. Unshunted junctions biased above the gap voltage and resistively shunted junctions biased near the critical current, $I_{c}$, have…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Shawn Pottorf , Vijay Patel , James E. Lukens

We used the asymmetric superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) technique to extract the current phase relation (CPR) of a Josephson junction with a 3D-topological insulator (TI) Bi2Se3 nanobelt as the barrier. The obtained CPR…

We have fabricated and measured Josephson junction defect spectrometers (JJDSs), which are frequency-tunable, nearly-harmonic oscillators that probe strongly-coupled two-level systems (TLSs) in the barrier of a Josephson junction (JJ). The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-11-05 M. J. A. Stoutimore , M. S. Khalil , C. J. Lobb , K. D. Osborn

Superconductor-graphene-superconductor (SGS) junction provides a unique platform to study relativistic electrodynamics of Dirac fermions combined with proximity-induced superconductivity. We report observation of the Josephson effect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Dongchan Jeong , Jae-Hyun Choi , Gil-Ho Lee , Sanghyun Jo , Yong-Joo Doh , Hu-Jong Lee

Thermal noise is one of the physical obstacles that constrain the achievable detection sensitivities of various detectors. Indeed, as we showed in a recent paper (PRB 111, 024501 (2025)), the usual Josephson threshold detector (JTD)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Y. Q. Chai , M. Y. Wang , S. N. Wang , P. H. Ouyang , L. F. Wei

More and more materials, with a growing variety of properties, are built into electronic devices. This is motivated both by increased device performance and by the studies of materials themselves. An important type of device is a Josephson…

Engineering artificial systems by twisting and stacking van der Waals materials has proven to be an excellent platform for exploring emergent quantum phenomena that can be significantly different from the constituents. Recent advances in…

Measurement of signals generated by superconducting Josephson junction (JJ) circuits require ultra-fast components located in close proximity to the generating circuitry. We report a detailed study of optimal design criteria for a JJ-based…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-27 Logan Howe , Bart van Zeghbroeck , David Olaya , John Biesecker , Charles J. Burroughs , Samuel P. Benz , Peter F. Hopkins

Experiments on the distributions of switching currents in Josephson junctions are sensitive probes of the mechanism by which a junction changes abruptly to a finite voltage state. At low temperatures data exhibit smooth and gradual…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-19 James A. Blackburn