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We present a consistent theory of superconductive tunneling in single-mode junctions within a scattering formulation of Bogoliubov-de Gennes quantum mechanics. Both dc Josephson effect and dc quasiparticle transport in voltage biased…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-28 V. S. Shumeiko , E. N. Bratus' , G. Wendin

The breaking of time-reversal symmetry in a triplet superconductor Josephson junction is shown to cause a magnetic instability of the tunneling barrier. Using a Ginzburg-Landau analysis of the free energy, we predict that this novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-13 P. M. R. Brydon , Christian Iniotakis , Dirk Manske , M. Sigrist

During the last fourteen years several exact results were obtained for the so-called boundary sine-Gordon model. In the case of a conformal bulk this 2D boundary quantum field theory describes the universal scaling behavior of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-17 Sergei L. Lukyanov , Philipp Werner

The $(kkk)$ double layered quantum Hall state has been shown to exhibit many superfluid properties including the appearance of an alternating tunnelling current in response to an external voltage V. Here we propose the notion of "sideways…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 X. G. Wen , A. Zee

We study the Josephson junction mediated by the quantum spin Hall edge states and show that electron-electron interactions lead to a dissipationless fractional Josephson effect in the presence of time-reversal symmetry. Surprisingly, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-07-17 Fan Zhang , C. L. Kane

Kibble-Zurek scaling is the scaling of the density of the topological defects formed via the Kibble-Zurek mechanism with respect to the rate at which a system is cooled across a continuous phase transition. Recently, the density of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-26 Fan Zhong

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

Coherence and tunneling play central roles in quantum phenomena. In a tunneling event, the time that a particle spends inside the barrier has been fiercely debated. This problem becomes more complex when tunneling repeatedly occurs back and…

We study a two-terminal graphene Josephson junction with contacts shaped to form a narrow constriction, less than 100nm in length. The contacts are made from type II superconducting contacts and able to withstand magnetic fields high enough…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 M. T. Wei , A. W. Draelos , A. Seredinski , C. T. Ke , H. Li , Y. Mehta , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. Yamamoto , S. Tarucha , G. Finkelstein , F. Amet , I. V. Borzenets

We present an analytical description of the tunneling dynamics between two coupled Bose-Einstein condensates in the Josephson regime. The model relies on the classical analogy with a rigid pendulum and focuses on two dynamical modes of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 Marine Pigneur , Jörg Schmiedmayer

We propose an interferometry within the framework of quantum Kibble-Zurek mechanism by exemplifying two prototypical quench protocols, namely the round-trip and quarter-turn ones, on the transverse Ising and quantum $XY$ chains. Each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Han-Chuan Kou , Peng Li

Building more powerful quantum computers requires manufacturing processes with tight tolerances. To improve the tolerances on Josephson junctions, techniques to fine tune their properties after fabrication have been developed. Understanding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Oscar W. Kennedy , Jared H. Cole , Connor D. Shelly

For decades following its introduction in 1968, the resistively and capacitively shunted junction (RCSJ) model, sometimes referred to as the Stewart-McCumber model, was successfully applied to study the dynamics of Josephson junctions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-18 James A. Blackburn , Matteo Cirillo , Niels Grønbech-Jensen

We show how the recently proposed effective theory for a Quantum Hall system at "paired states" filling v=1 (Mod. Phys. Lett. A 15 (2000) 1679; Nucl. Phys. B641 (2002) 547), the twisted model (TM), well adapts to describe the phenomenology…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 G. Cristofano , V. Marotta , A. Naddeo , G. Niccoli

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

Tunneling is one of the most bizarre phenomena in quantum mechanics. An attempt to understand it led to the next natural question of how long does a particle need to tunnel a barrier. The latter gave rise to several definitions such as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 N. G. Kelkar

We show analytically and by numerical simulations that the conductance through $\pi$-biased chaotic Josephson junctions is enhanced by several orders of magnitude in the short-wavelength regime. We identify the mechanism behind this effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. C. Goorden , Ph. Jacquod , J. Weiss

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism demands an initial adiabatic stage before an impulse stage to have a frozen correlation length that generates topological defects in a cooling phase transition. Here we study such a driven critical dynamics but…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-19 Yingyi Huang , Shuai Yin , Qijun Hu , Fan Zhong

We argue that in a second order quantum phase transition driven by an inhomogeneous quench density of quasiparticle excitations is suppressed when velocity at which a critical point propagates across a system falls below a threshold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jacek Dziarmaga , Marek M. Rams

Quantum dots attached to BCS superconducting leads exhibit a $0-\pi$ impurity quantum phase transition, which can be experimentally controlled either by the gate voltage or by the superconducting phase difference. For the pertinent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-27 Alžběta Kadlecová , Martin Žonda , Vladislav Pokorný , Tomáš Novotný