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We propose a highly-scalable method to compute the statistics of charge transfer in driven conductors. The framework can be applied in situations of non-zero temperature, strong coupling to terminals and in the presence of non-periodic…

Understanding transport processes in complex nanoscale systems, like ionic conductivities in nanofluidic devices or heat conduction in low dimensional solids, poses the problem of examining fluctuations of currents within nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 David T. Limmer , Chloe Y. Gao , Anthony R. Poggioli

Topological superconductors differ from topologically trivial ones for the presence of topologically protected zero-energy modes. To date, experimental evidence of topological superconductivity in nanostructures has been mainly obtained by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-22 Pasquale Marra , Roberta Citro , Alessandro Braggio

Universal scaling behaviour in superconductors has significantly elucidated fluctuation and phase transition phenomena in these materials. However, universal behaviour for the most practical property, the critical current, was not…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-03 Evgeny F. Talantsev , Wayne P. Crump , Jeffery L. Tallon

VI-curves of resistively shunted single Josephson junctions with different capacitances and tunneling resistances are found to display a crossover between two types of VI-curves: one without and another with a resistance bump (negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 J. S. Penttila , U. Parts , P. J. Hakonen , M. A. Paalanen , E. B. Sonin

Quasi-one-dimensional superconductors or nanowires exhibit a transition into a nonsuperconducting regime, as their diameter shrinks. We present measurements on ultrashort nanowires (~40-190 nm long) in the vicinity of this quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. T. Bollinger , A. Rogachev , A. Bezryadin

Strong interaction among charge carriers can make them move like viscous fluid. Here we explore alternating current (AC) effects in viscous electronics. In the Ohmic case, incompressible current distribution in a sample adjusts fast to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Mykola Semenyakin , Gregory Falkovich

A recently reported transition in the electrical resistance of different natural graphite samples suggests the existence of superconductivity at room temperature. To check whether dissipationless electrical currents are responsible for the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-30 Markus Stiller , Pablo D. Esquinazi , Christian E. Precker , José Barzola-Quiquia

In a mesoscopic superconductor - normal metal - superconductor (SNS) heterostructure the quasiparticle distribution can be driven far from equilibrium by a voltage applied across the normal metal. This reduces the supercurrent between the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank K. Wilhelm , Gerd Schön , Andrei D. Zaikin

A model system consisting of a mesoscopic superconducting grain coupled by Josephson junctions to two macroscopic superconducting electrodes is studied. We focus on the effects of ohmic dissipation caused by resistive shunts and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Gil Refael , Eugene Demler , Yuval Oreg , Daniel S. Fisher

We study non-Gaussian out-of-equilibrium current fluctuations in a mesoscopic NSN circuit at the point of a superconducting phase transition. The setup consists of a voltage-biased thin film nanobridge superconductor (S) connected to two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 Dmitry Bagrets , Alex Levchenko

The superconductor-to-insulator quantum phase transition in resistively shunted Josephson junctions is investigated by means of path-integral Monte Carlo simulations. This numerical technique allows us to directly access the (previously…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Carlos P. Herrero , Andrei D. Zaikin

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

Superconducting diodes enable dissipationless directional transport, yet achieving electrical tunability and scalability remains a major challenge for circuit-level integration. Here, we demonstrate an electrothermal-switch superconducting…

We consider a stable open queuing network as a steady non-equilibrium system of interacting particles. The network is completely specified by its underlying graphical structure, type of interaction at each node, and the Markovian transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Vladimir Y. Chernyak , Michael Chertkov , David A. Goldberg , Konstantin Turitsyn

Using tunneling spectroscopy, we have measured the local electron energy distribution function in the normal part of a superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) Josephson junction containing an extra lead to a normal reservoir. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 M. S. Crosser , Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkilä , Norman O. Birge

The paper discusses mechanisms for decay of supercurrents in ultrathin superconducting wires driven by quantum fluctuations. We argue that momentum conservation strongly suppresses probability of such decay and estimate the rates for two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-02-24 Dmitry Mozyrsky

Using the d-p model, we demonstrate that the pseudogap, which is induced by the superconducting fluctuation, plays key roles in the determination of the phase diagram observed in high-Tc superconducting materials. We take the pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Akito Kobayashi , Atsushi Tsuruta , Tamifusa Matsuura , Yoshihiro Kuroda

Numerous proposed and developed superconducting fault current limiters and self-limiting transformers limit successfully fault currents but do not provide uninterrupted supplying of consumers. A design investigated in the work combines the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Meerovich , V. Sokolovsky

We have probed the switching dynamics of the Josephson critical current of a superconducting weak link by measuring its voltage/current characteristics while applying an ac current bias in the range 1-200 MHz. The weak link between two Nb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Kevin Spahr , Jonathan Graveline , Chrustian Lupien , Marco Aprili , Bertrand Reulet