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Inspired by a recent experiment, we study the influence of thermal fluctuations on the $I$-$V$ characteristics of a Josephson junction, coupled to a strongly resistive environment. We obtain analytical results in the limit where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. S. Beloborodov , F. W. J. Hekking , F. Pistolesi

We study the influence of dissipation on the switching current statistics of moderately damped Josephson junctions. Different types of both low- and high- $T_c$ junctions with controlled damping are studied. The damping parameter of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-03-11 V. M. Krasnov , T. Golod , T. Bauch , P. Delsing

We investigate the dynamical properties of low dimensional systems, driven by external noise sources. Specifically we consider a resistively shunted Josephson junction and a one dimensional quantum liquid in a commensurate lattice…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-07-23 Emanuele G. Dalla Torre , Eugene Demler , Thierry Giamarchi , Ehud Altman

We investigate the dynamics of the phase variable of an ideal underdamped Josephson junction in switching current experiments. These experiments have provided the first evidence for macroscopic quantum tunneling in large Josephson junctions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 G. S. Paraoanu

We theoretically investigate the phase and voltage correlation dynamics, which includes both the deterministic contribution and stochastic fluctuations, under a current noise generated by a resistor including thermal and quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Koichiro Furutani , Luca Salasnich

Current-voltage curves of small area hysteretic intrinsic Josephson junctions, for which the Josephson energy $E_J=\hbar J_c/2e$ is of order of thermal energy $kT$, are investigated. A non-monotonic temperature dependence of the switching…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-13 A. Franz , Y. Koval , D. Vasyukov , P. Muller , H. Schneidewind , D. A. Ryndyk , J. Keller , C. Helm

Tunnel junction between two superconductors is considered in the vicinity of the critical temperature. Superconductive fluctuations above Tc give rise to the noise of the ac Josephson current although the current itself is zero in average.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Alex Levchenko

The Josephson junction noise detector measures the skewness of non-Gaussian noise via the asymmetry of the rate of escape from the zero-voltage state upon reversal of the bias current. The feedback of this detector on the noise generating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-10 D. F. Urban , Hermann Grabert

This paper aims at semi-parametrically estimating the input process to a L\'evy-driven queue by sampling the workload process at Poisson times. We construct a method-of-moments based estimator for the L\'evy process' characteristic…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Liron Ravner , Onno Boxma , Michel Mandjes

An experimental investigation of the critical current noise in underdamped niobium based Josephson junctions by a technique based on the switching current measurements is reported. By sweeping the junction with a current ramp we measure the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-07-12 C. Granata , A. Vettoliere , R. Russo , M. Russo , B. Ruggiero

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

A standard approach to analysis of noise-induced effects in stochastic dynamics assumes a Gaussian character of the noise term describing interaction of the analyzed system with its complex surroundings. An additional assumption about the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-05-06 Bartlomiej Dybiec , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak

We study mesoscopic fluctuations and weak localization correction to the supercurrent in Josephson junctions with coherent diffusive electron dynamics in the normal part. Two kinds of junctions are considered: a chaotic dot coupled to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-10 M. Houzet , M. A. Skvortsov

Multiple types of fluctuations impact the collective dynamics of power grids and thus challenge their robust operation. Fluctuations result from processes as different as dynamically changing demands, energy trading, and an increasing share…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-07-24 Benjamin Schäfer , Christian Beck , Kazuyuki Aihara , Dirk Witthaut , Marc Timme

We propose to probe the distribution of current fluctuations by means of the escape probability histogram of a Josephson junction (JJ), obtained using very short bias current pulses in the adiabatic regime, where the low-frequency component…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-10 Fabio Taddei , Frank W. J. Hekking

Josephson junctions have broad applications in metrology, quantum information processing, and remote sensing. For these applications, the electronic noise is a limiting factor. In this work we study the thermal noise in narrow Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-29 Dushko Kuzmanovski , Rubén Seoane Souto , Alexander V. Balatsky

We perform network analysis of a system described by the master equation to estimate the lower bound of the steady-state current noise, starting from the level 2.5 large deviation function and using the graph theory approach. When the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-03 Yasuhiro Utsumi

I present a theoretical study of current-voltage characteristics ($I$-$V$ curves ) of small Josephson junctions. In the limit of a small Josephson coupling energy $E_J \ll k_B T$ the thermal fluctuations result in a stochastic dependence of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-05-09 Mikhail V. Fistul

We report on the switching current distributions in nano-hybrid Josephson junctions made of InAs semiconductor nanowires. Temperature dependence of the switching current distribution can be understood by motion of Josephson phase particle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-17 Bum-Kyu Kim , Yong-Joo Doh

Current-biased Josephson junctions can act as detectors of electromagnetic radiation. At optimal conditions, their sensitivity is limited by fluctuations causing stochastic switching from the superconducting to the resistive state. This…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-30 Vladimir M. Krasnov