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A superconductor-normal metal-superconductor mesoscopic Josephson junction has been realized in which the critical current is tuned through normal current injection using a symmetric electron cooler directly connected to the weak link. Both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. M. Savin , J. P. Pekola , J. T. Flyktman , A. Anthore , F. Giazotto

We have measured the influence of shot noise on hysteretic Josephson junctions initially in macroscopic quantum tunnelling (MQT) regime. Escape threshold current into the resistive state decreases monotonically with increasing average…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. P. Pekola , T. E. Nieminen , M. Meschke , J. M. Kivioja , A. O. Niskanen , J. J. Vartiainen

We analyze data on the critical current and normal state resistance noise in Josephson junctions and argue that the noise in the critical current is due to a mechanism that is absent in the normal state. We estimate the noise produced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Lara Faoro , Lev B. Ioffe

We study the Josephson effect in junctions composed of two ferromagnetic insulator/diffusive superconductor bilayers separated by an insulating barrier. By computing the free energy of the system, we identify two distinct contributions: (i)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-08 A. A. Mazanik , C. -H. Huang , Miguel A. Cazalilla , F. S. Bergeret

We show that a system of Josephson junctions coupled via low-resistance tunneling contacts to graphene substrate(s) may effectively operate as a current switching device. The effect is based on the dissipation-driven…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Roman M. Lutchyn , Victor Galitski , Gil Refael , S. Das Sarma

We study thermal fluctuation phenomena in small Bi-2212 intrinsic Josephson junctions. Being able to measure switching currents of a {\it single} intrinsic junction, we observe that it's statistics can be very well described by thermal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 V. M. Krasnov , T. Bauch , P. Delsing

Josephson junctions and superconducting wires when probed with current pulses exhibit stochastic switching from superconducting to a stable non-zero voltage state. Electrical current dependence of the switching probability (so called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Marek Foltyn , Konrad Norowski , Alexander Savin , Maciej Zgirski

Superconducting tunnel junctions constitute the units of superconducting quantum circuits and are massively used both for quantum sensing and quantum computation. In previous works, we predicted the existence of a nonlinear thermoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 G. Marchegiani , A. Braggio , F. Giazotto

We present a theoretical study of an escape rate for switching from the superconducting state to a resistive one in series arrays of strongly interacting Josephson junctions. At low temperatures such a switching is determined by macroscopic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Fistul

We report voltage-tuned phase transitions in arrays of hybrid semiconductor-superconductor islands arranged in a square lattice. A double-layer electrostatic gate geometry enables independent tuning of inter-island coupling and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 S. Sasmal , M. Efthymiou-Tsironi , G. Nagda , E. Fugl , L. L. Olsen , F. Krizek , C. M. Marcus , S. Vaitiekėnas

A numerical model based on a lumped circuit element approximation for a bi-superconducting quantum interference device (bi-SQUID) operating in the presence of an external magnetic field is presented in this paper. Included in the model is…

We theoretically study the behavior of the critical current of a thermally-biased tunnel Josephson junction with a particular design, in which the electrodes of the junction are enclosed in two different superconducting loops pierced by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-20 Claudio Guarcello , Roberta Citro , Francesco Giazotto , Alessandro Braggio

Fluctuations of the current through a tunnel junction are measured using a Josephson junction. The current noise adds to the bias current of the Josephson junction and affects its switching out of the supercurrent branch. The experiment is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-17 Q. Le Masne , H. Pothier , Norman O. Birge , C. Urbina , D. Esteve

The interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism has long been pursued as a route to unconventional Josephson effects, yet suitable material platforms remain limited. Here we report Josephson junctions based on epitaxial…

Swept bias experiments carried out on Josephson junctions yield the distributions of the probabilities of early switching from the zero voltage state. Kramers' theory of thermally activated escape from a one-dimensional potential is well…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-09 James A. Blackburn , Matteo Cirillo , Niels Grønbech-Jensen

When a Josephson junction array is built with hybrid superconductor/metal/superconductor junctions, a quantum phase transition from a superconducting to a two-dimensional (2D) metallic ground state is predicted to happen upon increasing the…

We find the admittance $Y(\omega)$ of a Josephson junction at or near a topological transition. The dependence of the admittance on frequency and temperature at the critical point is universal and determined by the symmetries of the system.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Vladislav D. Kurilovich , Chaitanya Murthy , Pavel D. Kurilovich , Bernard van Heck , Leonid I. Glazman , Chetan Nayak

We study a diffusive superconductor-normal metal-superconductor junction in an environment with intrinsic incoherent fluctuations which couple to the junction through an electromagnetic field. When the temperature of the junction differs…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-04 Juha Voutilainen , Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkilä

We present tunnel spectroscopy experiments on the proximity effect in lateral superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) Josephson junctions. Our weak link is embedded into a superconducting (S) ring allowing phase biasing of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Meschke , J. T. Peltonen , J. P. Pekola , F. Giazotto

We address a recent experiment in which a strong decrease of the resistance of a superconducting film has been observed when a remote unbiased gate was placed above the film. Here we explain the experimental finding as a suppression of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Michaeli , A. M. Finkel'stein