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Josephson radiation is a useful signature for detecting Majorana zero modes in topological superconductors. We study the Josephson radiation of the underdamped topological Josephson junction within the quantum resistively and capacitively…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-26 Yuejian Zhang , Xiping Yang , Jia-Jin Feng , Zhi Wang , Tianxing Ma

We present a new type of phase- and frequency-sensitive amplification and attenuation in a cyclically driven three-level superconducting Josephson system. Different from the previous linear theory of pure phase-sensitive amplification, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-29 Hai-Chao Li , Hai-Yang Zhang , Qing He , Guo-Qin Ge

Superconducting electronics offer significant advantages in speed and power efficiency for next-generation computing and communication systems. However, their practical deployment is limited by the absence of simple, efficient, and scalable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-01 Razmik A. Hovhannisyan , Amirreza Lotfian , Taras Golod , Vladimir M. Krasnov

High gain and large bandwidth of traveling-wave parametric amplifier exploiting the nonlinearity of Josephson Junctions can be achieved by fulfilling the so-called phase-matching condition. This condition is usually addressed by placing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-12 Emil Rizvanov , Samuel Kern , Pavol Neilinger , Miroslav Grajcar

In cavity-based axion dark matter detectors, quantum noise remains a primary barrier to achieving the scan rate necessary for a comprehensive search of axion parameter space. Here we introduce a method of scan rate enhancement in which an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 K. Wurtz , B. M. Brubaker , Y. Jiang , E. P. Ruddy , D. A. Palken , K. W. Lehnert

We provide theoretical arguments that dark matter axions from the galactic halo that pass through the earth may generate a small observable signal in resonant S/N/S Josephson junctions. The corresponding interaction process is based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-16 Christian Beck

Bloch oscillations were predicted and observed long ago in Josephson junctions, which are thin insulating or conducting layers bridging two superconductors. Here we forward a scheme for utilizing these oscillations to amplify nano-metric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 T. McDermott , E. Mariani , H. Deng

Nodal topological superconductors characterized by $p_x$-wave pairing symmetry host flat-band Majorana bound states causing drastic anomalies in low-energy electromagnetic responses. Nevertheless, the study of flat-band Majorana bound…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-09 Daisuke Oshima , Satoshi Ikegaya , Andreas P. Schnyder , Yukio Tanaka

A Josephson tunnel junction which is RF-driven near a dynamical bifurcation point can amplify quantum signals. The bifurcation point will exist robustly only if the electrodynamic environment of the junction meets certain criteria. In this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 V. E. Manucharyan , E. Boaknin , M. Metcalfe , R. Vijay , I. Siddiqi , M. H. Devoret

We study a new type of Josephson device, the so-called "optical Josephson junction" as proposed in Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 95}, 170402 (2005). Two condensates are optically coupled through a waveguide by a pair of Bragg beams. This optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-02 H. T. Ng , K. Burnett , J. A. Dunningham

In this work, we briefly overview various options for Josephson junctions which should be scalable down to nanometer range for utilization in nanoscale digital superconducting technology. Such junctions should possess high values of…

We propose a realization of the superconducting diode effect in flux biased superconducting circuits of Josephson junctions. So far the observation of the superconducting diode effect has been limited to rather exotic material platforms. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-07 Rafael Haenel , Oguzhan Can

We investigate the Josephson radiation of nanowire (NW)-based Josephson junctions in a parallel magnetic field. The Josephson junction made of an InAs NW with superconducting Al leads shows the emission spectra which follow the Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Hiroshi Kamata , Russell S. Deacon , Sadashige Matsuo , Kan Li , Sören Jeppesen , Lars Samuelson , Hongqi Xu , Koji Ishibashi , Seigo Tarucha

The hetero junction between the different materials often gives the rectification effect; e.g., pn junction is used for diode. On the other hand, the Josephson junction between the two superconductors is assumed to show symmetric response…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Kou Misaki , Naoto Nagaosa

We report the results of an axion dark matter search over an axion mass range of 9.39-9.51 ${\mu}$eV. A flux-driven Josephson parametric amplifier (JPA) was added to the cryogenic receiver chain. A system noise temperature of as low as 200…

We propose a scheme of measuring the non-Gaussian character of noise by a hysteretic Josephson junction in the macroscopic quantum tunnelling (MQT) regime. We model the detector as an (under)damped $LC$ resonator. It transforms Poissonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. P. Pekola

According to the statistical distribution laws, all the elementary particles in the real 3+1-dimensional world must and only be chosen as either bosons or fermions, without exception and not both. Here, we experimentally verified that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 P. H. Ouyang , S. R. He , Y. Z. Wang , Y. Q. Chai , J. X. He , H. Chang , L. F. Wei

Axion-like particles are a broad class of dark matter candidates which are expected to behave as a coherent, classical field with a weak coupling to photons. Research into the detectability of these particles with laser interferometers has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-07 Hongwan Liu , Brodi D. Elwood , Matthew Evans , Jesse Thaler

Current flow in electronic devices can be asymmetric with bias direction, a phenomenon underlying the utility of diodes and known as non-reciprocal charge transport. The promise of dissipationless electronics has recently stimulated the…

There are two elementary superconducting qubit types that derive directly from the quantum harmonic oscillator. In one the inductor is replaced by a nonlinear Josephson junction to realize the widely used charge qubits with a compact phase…