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Half a century after its discovery, the Josephson junction has become the most important nonlinear quantum electronic component at our disposal. It has helped reshape the SI system around quantum effects and is used in scores of quantum…

Josephson current for a system consisting of an Anderson impurity weakly coupled to two unconventional superconductors is studied and shown to be driven by a surface zero energy (mid-gap) bound-state. The repulsive Coulomb interaction in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Avishai , A. Golub

We demonstrate that by utilizing an over-screened Josephson junction as a noise detector it is possible to achieve the threshold regime, whereby the tails of the fluctuating current distribution are measured. This situation is realized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eugene V. Sukhorukov , Andrew N. Jordan

A Josephson junction (JJ) has been under intensive study ever since 1960's. Yet even in the present era of building quantum information processing devices based on many JJs, open questions regarding a single junction remain unsolved, such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Bayan Karimi , Gorm Ole Steffensen , Andrew P. Higginbotham , Charles M. Marcus , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Jukka P. Pekola

The Josephson diode, a non-reciprocal quantum element analogous to the familiar semiconductor p-n junction diode, has been realized in solid-state systems but remains unexplored in tunable atomtronic circuits. In this work, we propose and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-25 Nalinikanta Pradhan , Rina Kanamoto , M. Bhattacharya , Pankaj Kumar Mishra

We have designed and experimentally implemented a circuit of inductively-coupled superconducting charge qubits, where a Josephson junction is used as an inductance, and the coupling between the qubits is controlled by an applied magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Yamamoto , M. Watanabe , J. Q. You , Yu. A. Pashkin , O. Astafiev , Y. Nakamura , F. Nori , J. S. Tsai

In this proposal, we present an experimental setup based on superconducting circuits and Josephson junctions to explore the modification of Josephson coefficient in the presence of external magnetic field due to vacuum polarization of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-02 Ali Izadi Rad

In this article we present an experimental study of microwave resonators made out of Josephson junctions. The junctions are embedded in a transmission line geometry so that they increase the inductance per length for the line. By comparing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Antti Ranni , Harald Havir , Subhomoy Haldar , Ville F. Maisi

Josephson radiation is a powerful method to probe Majorana zero modes in topological superconductors. Recently, Josephson radiation with half the Josephson frequency has been experimentally observed in a HgTe-based junction, possibly from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-30 Jia-Jin Feng , Zhao Huang , Zhi Wang , Qian Niu

By coupling a quantum detector, a superconductor-insulator-superconductor junction, to a Josephson junction \textit{via} a resonant circuit we probe the high frequency properties, namely the ac complex admittance and the current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-02 Julien Basset , Hélène Bouchiat , Richard Deblock

Thermal noise is one of the physical obstacles that constrain the achievable detection sensitivities of various detectors. Indeed, as we showed in a recent paper (PRB 111, 024501 (2025)), the usual Josephson threshold detector (JTD)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Y. Q. Chai , M. Y. Wang , S. N. Wang , P. H. Ouyang , L. F. Wei

Semiconductor-based Josephson junctions provide a platform for studying proximity effect due to the possibility of tuning junction properties by gate voltage and large-scale fabrication of complex Josephson circuits. Recently Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 William Mayer , Joseph Yuan , Kaushini Wickramasinghe , Tri Nguyen , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , Javad Shabani

Hybrid Josephson junctions realized on a two-dimensional electron gas are considered promising candidates for developing topological elements that are easily controllable and scalable. Here, we theoretically study the possibility of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 D. Kuiri , M. P. Nowak

We present a detailed study of photonic heat transport across a Josephson junction coupled to two arbitrary linear circuits having different temperatures. First, we consider the linear approximation, in which a nonlinear Josephson potential…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-11 George Thomas , Jukka P. Pekola , Dmitry S. Golubev

Topological superconductors supporting Majorana Fermions with non-abelian statistics are presently a subject of intense theoretical and experimental effort. It has been proposed that the observation of a half-frequency or a fractional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-21 Jay D. Sau , Erez Berg , Bertrand I. Halperin

The axion particle, a consequence of an elegant hypothesis that resolves the strong-CP problem of quantum chromodynamics, is a plausible origin for cosmological dark matter. In searches for axionic dark matter that detect the conversion of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-20 Huaixiu Zheng , Matti Silveri , R. T. Brierley , S. M. Girvin , K. W. Lehnert

We consider the finite-frequency response of multiterminal Josephson junctions and show how non-reciprocity in them can show up at linear response, in contrast to the static Josephson diodes featuring non-linear non-reciprocity. At finite…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-24 Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkilä

In circuit quantum electrodynamical systems, the quasiparticle-related losses in Josephson junctions are suppressed due to the gap in the superconducting density of states which is much higher than the typical energy of a microwave photon.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Vasilii Vadimov , Yoshiki Sunada , Mikko Möttönen

Detection mechanisms for low mass bosonic dark matter candidates, such the axion or hidden photon, leverage potential interactions with electromagnetic fields, whereby the dark matter (of unknown mass) on rare occasion converts into a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-04-14 Akash V. Dixit , Srivatsan Chakram , Kevin He , Ankur Agrawal , Ravi K. Naik , David I. Schuster , Aaron Chou

Superconducting traveling-wave parametric amplifiers have emerged as highly promising devices for near-quantum-limited broadband amplification of microwave signals and are essential for high quantum-efficiency microwave readout lines.…