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We theoretically study the Shapiro steps in a hetero Josephson junction made of a single-gap superconductor and a two-gap one. We find that an anomalous DC Josephson current is induced by tuning the frequency of an applied microwave to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-10-28 Yukihiro Ota , Masahiko Machida , Tomio Koyama

Bosons with density-dependent hopping on a one dimensional lattice have been shown to emulate anyonic particles with fractional exchange statistics. Leveraging this, we construct a Josephson junction setup, where an insulating barrier in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Jessica John Britto

We propose to dynamically control the conductivity of a Josephson junction composed of two weakly coupled one dimensional condensates of ultracold atoms. A current is induced by a periodically modulated potential difference between the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-10 Beilei Zhu , Vijay Pal Singh , Junichi Okamoto , Ludwig Mathey

We study Superconductor-Ferromagnet-Superconductor (Nb-Cu0.47 Ni0.53-Nb) Josephson junctions with spatial variations in the barrier thickness. Critical current vs. magnetic flux diffraction patterns indicate that the critical current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Frolov , D. J. Van Harlingen , V. V. Bolginov , V. A. Oboznov , V. V. Ryazanov

We investigate Josephson transport in a fully closed, two-dimensional superfluid circuit formed by a ring-shaped 87Rb Bose-Einstein condensate that contains two optical barriers acting as movable weak links. Translating these barriers at…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-29 Koon Siang Gan , Vijay Pal Singh , Luigi Amico , Rainer Dumke

The Josephson effect presents a fundamental example of macroscopic quantum coherence as well as a crucial enabler for metrology (e.g. voltage standard), sensing (e.g. Superconducting Quantum Interference Device) and quantum information…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-03 Nalinikanta Pradhan , Rina Kanamoto , M. Bhattacharya , Pankaj Kumar Mishra

Topological Josephson junctions (JJs), which contain Majorana bound states, are expected to exhibit 4$\pi$-periodic current-phase relation, thereby resulting in doubled Shapiro steps under microwave irradiation. We performed numerical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-12-30 Yeongmin Jang , Yong-Joo Doh

Josephson junctions with weak-links of exotic materials allow the elucidation of the Josephson effect in previously unexplored regimes. Further, such devices offer a direct probe of novel material properties, for example in the search for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 S. S. Kalantre , F. Yu , M. T. Wei , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. Hernandez-Rivera , F. Amet , J. R. Williams

We demonstrate that the well known phase-locking mechanism leading to Shapiro steps in ac-driven Josephson junctions is always accompanied by a higher order phase-locking mechanism similar to that of the parametrically driven pendulum. This…

We consider a two-dimensional fully frustrated Josephson-junction array driven by combined direct and alternating currents. Interplay between the mode locking phenomenon, manifested by giant Shapiro steps in the current-voltage…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 J. S. Lim , M. Y. Choi , J. Choi , B. J. Kim

We numerically demonstrate and characterize the emergence of distinct dynamical regimes of a finite temperature bosonic superfluid in an elongated Josephson junction generated by a thin Gaussian barrier over the entire temperature range…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-18 Klejdja Xhani , Nikolaos P. Proukakis

We analyse the formation and the dynamics of quantum turbulence in a two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate with a Josephson junction barrier modelled using the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We show that a sufficiently high initial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-06-24 Adam Griffin , Sergey Nazarenko , Davide Proment

For an overdamped particle moving over a two-dimensional periodic substrate under combined dc and ac drives, a series of steps can appear in the velocity force curves that are known as Shapiro steps. Here we show that for skyrmions driven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 N. P. Vizarim , C. Reichhardt , P. A. Venegas , C. J. O. Reichhardt

We construct a semiclassical theory for the transport of topological junctions starting from a microscopic Hamiltonian that comprehensively includes the interplay among the Majorana qubit, the Josephson phase, and the dissipation process.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-28 Zhi Wang , Jia-Jin Feng , Zhao Huang , Qian Niu

The phase dynamics of Josephson junctions under external electromagnetic radiation is studied through numerical simulations. Current-voltage characteristics, Lyapunov exponents and Poincare sections are analyzed in detail. It is found that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-19 Yu. M. Shukrinov , A. E. Botha , S. Yu. Medvedeva , M. R. Kolahchi , A. Irie

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

Bloch oscillations in small Josephson junctions were predicted theoretically as the quantum dual to Josephson oscillations. A significant consequence of this prediction is the emergence of quantized current steps, so-called dual Shapiro…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Fabian Kaap , Christoph Kissling , Victor Gaydamachenko , Lukas Grünhaupt , Sergey Lotkhov

We analyze the current-biased Shapiro experiment in a Josephson junction formed by two one-dimensional nanowires featuring Majorana fermions. Ideally, these junctions are predicted to have an unconventional $4\pi$-periodic Josephson effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-29 Fernando Domínguez , Fabian Hassler , Gloria Platero

When a superconducting tunnel junction at a finite voltage is irradiated with microwaves, the interplay between the alternating Josephson current and the ac field gives rise to steps in the dc current known as Shapiro steps. In this work we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 J. C. Cuevas , H. Pothier

Bosonic Josephson junctions provide a versatile platform for exploring quantum tunneling and coherence phenomena in ultracold atomic systems. While extensive research has examined the Josephson-junction dynamics in various double-well…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-04-15 Rhombik Roy , Ofir E. Alon