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We have investigated charge transport in ultrasmall superconducting single and double Josephson junctions coupled to resonant modes of the electromagnetic environment. We observe pronounced current peaks in the transport characteristics of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-02-03 Yu. A. Pashkin , H. Im , J. Leppäkangas , T. F. Li , O. Astafiev , A. A. Abdumalikov , E. Thuneberg , J. S. Tsai

Josephson-junction interferometry has played a pivotal role in uncovering unconventional superconductivity in the cuprates. Using a Ginzburg-Landau-like approach, we generalize previous results to the genuine multi-gap case. Thus, we show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-17 M. Donaire , A. Cano

We show that current correlations at the exit ports of a beam splitter can be used to detect electronic entanglement for a fairly general input state. This includes the situation where electron pairs can enter the beam splitter from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-18 Vittorio Giovannetti , Diego Frustaglia , Fabio Taddei , Rosario Fazio

We report the observation of quantum jumps between macroscopic quantum states in a superconducting phase qubit coupled to the two-level systems in the Josephson tunnel junction, and all key features of quantum jumps are confirmed in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yang Yu , Shi-Liang Zhu , Guozhu Sun , Xueda Wen , Ning Dong , Jian Chen , Peiheng Wu , Siyuan Han

The current study is motivated by a difficulty to reconcile between particle number conservation and superconductivity. An alternative modeling, which is based on the hypothesis that disentanglement spontaneously ocuurs in quantum systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Eyal Buks

We derive a many-particle inseparability criterion for mixed states using the relation between single-mode and many-particle nonclassicalities. It works very well not only in the vicinity of the Dicke states, but also for the superposition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Mehmet Emre Tasgin

In this study, we explore the Josephson current-phase relation within a planar diffuse tunneling superconducting multilayer junction subjected to a parallel magnetic field. Our investigation involves computing the supercurrent associated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-19 A. S. Osin , Alex Levchenko , Maxim Khodas

Coherent states with large amplitudes are traditionally thought of as the best quantum mechanical approximation of classical behavior. Here we argue that, far from being classical, coherent state are in fact highly entangled. We demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Kaszlikowski , V. Vedral

In superconductors with three or more bands, time-reversal symmetry (TRS) may be broken in the presence of repulsive interband couplings, resulting in a pair of degenerate states characterized by opposite chiralities. We consider a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-19 Zhao Huang , Xiao Hu

We determine, using a self consistent method, the charge and spin currents in ballistic Josephson junctions consisting of ferromagnetic ($F$) layers sandwiched between superconducting ($S$) electrodes ($SFS$-type junctions). When there are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-24 Klaus Halterman , Oriol T. Valls , Chien-Te Wu

Motivated by a recent experiment evidencing triplet superconductivity in a ferromagnetic Josephson junction with a Cu$_2$MnAl-Heusler barrier, we construct a theoretical model accounting for this observation. The key ingredients in our…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 Jacob Linder , Asle Sudbø

Josephson effects are commonly studied in quantum systems in which dissipation or noise can be neglected or do not play a crucial role. In contrast, here we discuss a setup where dissipative interactions do amplify a photonic Josephson…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-09 Samuel Fernández-Lorenzo , Diego Porras

We study macroscopic entanglement of various pure states of a one-dimensional N-spin system with N>>1. Here, a quantum state is said to be macroscopically entangled if it is a superposition of macroscopically distinct states. To judge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomoyuki Morimae , Ayumu Sugita , Akira Shimizu

We model a superconducting p-n junction in which the n- and the p-sides are contacted through two optical quantum dots (QDs), each embedded into a photonic nanocavity. Whenever a Cooper pair is transferred from the n-side to the p-side, two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Alexander Schroer , Patrik Recher

We present a method to synthesize an arbitrary quantum state of two superconducting resonators. This state-synthesis algorithm utilizes a coherent interaction of each resonator with a tunable artificial atom to create entangled quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Frederick W. Strauch , Kurt Jacobs , Raymond W. Simmonds

Entanglement are the non-local correlations permitted by quantum theory, believed to play a fundamental role in a quantum computer. We have investigated these correlations in a number of theoretical models for condensed matter systems. Such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stein Olav Skrøvseth

We explore some basic entanglement features of multiqubit systems that are relevant for the development of algorithms for searching highly entangled states. In particular, we compare the behaviours of multiqubit entanglement measures based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-26 A. Borras , M. Casas , A. R. Plastino , A. Plastino

This paper summarises the results of our research on macroscopic entanglement in spin systems and free Bosonic gases. We explain how entanglement can be observed using entanglement witnesses which are themselves constructed within the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Janet Anders , Vlatko Vedral

This paper illustrates a unified approach, classical circuit and control theories, to study a nonlinear LC circuit with a current dependent inductance as model of the Josephson junction, the mathematical analysis is complemented with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-11 Alberto Delgado

The Josephson effect characterizes superfluids and superconductors separated by a weak link, the so-called Josephson junction. A recent experiment has shown that Josephson oscillations can be observed also in a supersolid, where the weak…