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We study driven atomic Josephson junctions realized by coupling two two-dimensional atomic clouds with a tunneling barrier. By moving the barrier at a constant velocity, dc and ac Josephson regimes are characterized by a zero and nonzero…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-31 Vijay Pal Singh , Juan Polo , Ludwig Mathey , Luigi Amico

Recently, a new theory of superconductivity has been put forward that attributes the origin of superconductivity to the appearance of a non-trivial Berry connection from many-electron wave functions. This theory reproduces the major results…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-14 Hiroyasu Koizumi

Superconducting diodes are a recently-discovered quantum analogueue of classical diodes. The superconducting diode effect relies on the breaking of both time-reversal and inversion symmetry. As a result, the critical current of a…

We study clean superconducting quantum dots (SQD) and also site dependent Josephson couplings, on site charging energies and the intersite interactions in presence of gate voltage. We predict the existence of different fractionally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-29 Sujit Sarkar

In this paper we discuss solid-state nanoelectronic realizations of Josephson flux qubits with large tunneling amplitude between the two macroscopic states. The latter can be controlled via the height and wells form of the potential…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-02 V. I. Shnyrkov , A. A. Soroka , S. I. Melnik

A method was devised to construct a generalized dual field theory in the quantum field theory. As a simple example using this method, we examined the duality between coherent quantum phase slip and the Josephson effect in single junction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-04-24 M. Yoneda , M. Niwa , N. Hirata , M. Motohashi

We analyze the current in a superconducting point contact of arbitrary transmission in the presence of a microwave radiation. The interplay between the ac Josephson current and the microwave signal gives rise to Shapiro steps at voltages V…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 J. C. Cuevas , J. Heurich , A. Martin-Rodero , A. Levy Yeyati , G. Schoen

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 Josephson junction of a strong spin-orbit material under a magnetic field is a promising Majorana fermion candidate. Supercurrent enhancement by a magnetic field has been observed in the InAs nanowire Josephson junctions and assigned to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Yosuke Sato , Kento Ueda , Yuusuke Takeshige , Hiroshi Kamata , Kan Li , Lars Samuelson , Hongqi Xu , Sadashige Matsuo , Seigo Tarucha

When two superconductors become electrically connected by a weak link a zero-resistance supercurrent can flow. This supercurrent is carried by Cooper pairs of electrons with a combined charge of twice the elementary charge, e. The 2e charge…

Properly designed colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have already been shown to exhibit high sensitivity to external electric fields via the quantum confined Stark effect (QCSE). Yet, detection of the characteristic spectral shifts…

Several physical realizations of quantum bits have been proposed. Of those, nano-electronic devices appear most suitable for large-scale integration and potential applications. We suggest to use low-capacitance Josephson junctions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuriy Makhlin , Gerd Schoen , Alexander Shnirman

Driven atomic Josephson junctions allow one to monitor phase-coherent dynamics with unprecedented control and flexibility of the system's physical conditions. While cold-atom manifestations of the Josephson effect have been extensively…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-28 Kevin T. Geier , Giampiero Marchegiani , Vijay Pal Singh , Juan Polo , Luigi Amico

The duality between coherent quantum phase slip and Josephson junction in nanosheets was investigated using the dual Hamiltonian method. This is equivalent to the duality between superconductivity and superinsulator in the 2 + 1 dimension…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-09 M. Yoneda , M. Niwa , M. Motohashi

Charge transport in tunnel junctions between singlet anisotropically paired superconductors is investigated theoretically making use of the Eilenberger equations for the quasiclassical Green functions. For specularly reflecting tunnel…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 Yury S. Barash , Anatoly A. Svidzinsky

Different nanofabricated superconducting circuits based on Josephson junctions have already achieved a degree of quantum coherence sufficient to demonstrate coherent superpositions of their quantum states. These circuits are considered for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Collin , G. Ithier , A. Aassime , P. Joyez , D. Vion , D. Esteve

A single spin in a Josephson junction can reverse the flow of the supercurrent. At mesoscopic length scales, such $\pi$-junctions are employed in various instances from finding the pairing symmetry to quantum computing. In Yu-Shiba-Rusinov…

We study coherent quantum phase-slips which lift the ground state degeneracy in a Josephson junction ring, pierced by a magnetic flux of the magnitude equal to half of a flux quantum. The quantum phase-slip amplitude is sensitive to the…

We measured the Josephson radiation emitted by an InSb semiconductor nanowire junction utilizing photon assisted quasiparticle tunneling in an AC-coupled superconducting tunnel junction. We quantify the action of the local microwave…

The effects of Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling (MQT) and Coulomb Blockade (CB) in Josephson junctions are of considerable significance both for the manifestations of quantum mechanics on the macroscopic scale and potential technological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hermann Grabert , Gert-Ludwig Ingold