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We couple a proximity Josephson junction to a Joule-heated normal metal film and measure its electron temperature under steady state and nonequilibrium conditions. With a timed sequence of heating and temperature probing pulses, we are able…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Libin Wang , Olli-Pentti Saira , Jukka Pekola

We study, analytically and numerically, phase locking of driven vortex lattices in fully-frustrated Josephson junction arrays at zero temperature. We consider the case when an ac current is applied {\it perpendicular} to a dc current. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Veronica Marconi , Alejandro Kolton , Daniel Dominguez , Niels Gronbech-Jensen

We discuss the prospect of using quantum properties of large scale Josephson junction arrays for quantum manipulation and simulation. We study the collective vibrational quantum modes of a Josephson junction array and show that they provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xingxiang Zhou , Ari Mizel

A superconducting optoelectronic neuron will produce a small current pulse upon reaching threshold. We present an amplifier chain that converts this small current pulse to a voltage pulse sufficient to produce light from a semiconductor…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Jeffrey M. Shainline , Adam N. McCaughan , Sonia M. Buckley , Richard P. Mirin , Sae Woo Nam

Planar Josephson junctions (JJs), based on common superconductors and III-V semiconductors, are sought for Majorana states and fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, with gate-tunable spin-orbit coupling (SOC), we show that the range of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-03 David Monroe , Chenghao Shen , Dario Tringali , Mohammad Alidoust , Tong Zhou , Igor Žutić

We experimentally study a driven-dissipative Josephson junction array, realized with a weakly interacting Bose Einstein condensate residing in a one-dimensional optical lattice. Engineered losses on one site act as a local dissipative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-24 Ralf Labouvie , Bodhaditya Santra , Simon Heun , Herwig Ott

We describe a superconducting device capable of producing laser light in the visible range at half the Josephson generation frequency, with the optical phase of the light locked to the superconducting phase difference. An earlier proposed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-20 Frans Godschalk , Yuli V. Nazarov

Josephson junctions (JJs) are ubiquitous superconducting devices, enabling high sensitivity magnetometers and voltage amplifiers, as well as forming the basis of high performance cryogenic computer and superconducting quantum computers.…

Aluminum-based Josephson junctions are currently the main sources of nonlinearity for control and manipulation of superconducting qubits. A phase-slip junction, the dual of a Josephson junction, provides an alternative source of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-09 Cheeranjeev Purmessur , Kaicheung Chow , Bernard van Heck , Angela Kou

Ultra-small Josephson junctions are strongly influenced by noise and damping due to energy dissipation into the environment, which are expected to suppress phase coherence. Here, we investigate the coherence properties of atomic-scale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Martina Trahms , Bharti Mahendru , Clemens B. Winkelmann , Katharina J. Franke

Single-Flux Quantum (SFQ) digital logic is typically energy efficient and fast, and logic that uses ballistic and reversible principles provides a new platform to improve efficiency. We are studying long Josephson junctions (long JJs), SFQs…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Han Cai , Liuqi Yu , Waltraut Wustmann , Ryan Clarke , Kevin D. Osborn

We study the low-temperature properties of linear Josephson-junction arrays capacitively coupled to a proximate two-dimensional diffusive metal. Using bosonization techniques, we derive an effective model for the array and obtain its…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-09-03 Alejandro M. Lobos , Thierry Giamarchi

New resonance steps are found in the experimental current-voltage characteristics of long, discrete, one-dimensional Josephson junction arrays with open boundaries and in an external magnetic field. The junctions are underdamped, connected…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 A. E. Duwel , S. Watanabe , E. Trias , T. P. Orlando , H. S. J. van der Zant , S. H. Strogatz

In the presence of an AC drive, multiterminal Josephson junctions exhibit the inverse AC Josephson effect, where the oscillations of the superconducting phase of each junction can lock onto one another or onto the external drive. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-23 François Amet , Sara Idris , Aeron McConnell , Brian Opatosky , Ethan Arnault

Modern hybrid superconductor-semiconductor Josephson junction arrays are a promising platform for analog quantum simulations. Their controllable and non-sinusoidal energy/phase relation opens the path to implement nontrivial interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Lorenzo Maffi , Niklas Tausendpfund , Matteo Rizzi , Michele Burrello

A pulse-and-hold technique is used to measure the switching of small critical current Josephson junctions. This technique allows one to achieve a good binary detection and therefore measure switching probabilities. The technique overcomes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-23 J. Walter , S. Corlevi , D. B. Haviland

Josephson plasma resonance has been introduced recently as a powerful tool to probe interlayer Josephson coupling in different regions of the vortex phase diagram in layered superconductors. In the liquid phase, the high temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. E. Koshelev , L. N. Bulaevskii , M. P. Maley

The generation of stable short optical pulses in mode-locked lasers is of tremendous importance for many applications. Mode-locking is a broad concept that encompasses different processes enabling short pulse formation. It typically…

Circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED) has emerged as a promising platform for implementing quantum computation and simulation. Typically, junctions in these systems are of a sufficiently small size, such that only the lowest plasma…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Andrey Grankin , Alicia J. Kollár , Mohammad Hafezi

In this paper we determine the magnetic field dependence of the critical current of a tridimensional disordered Josephson junction array (3D-DJJA). A contactless configuration, employing measurements of the AC-susceptibility, is used to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 W. A. C. Passos , P. N. Lisboa-Filho , W. A. Ortiz