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Superconducting tunnel junctions constitute the units of superconducting quantum circuits and are massively used both for quantum sensing and quantum computation. In previous works, we predicted the existence of a nonlinear thermoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 G. Marchegiani , A. Braggio , F. Giazotto

Since the the first studies of thermodynamics, heat transport has been a crucial element for the understanding of any thermal system. Quantum mechanics has introduced new appealing ingredients for the manipulation of heat currents, such as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-19 Giuliano Timossi , Antonio Fornieri , Federico Paolucci , Claudio Puglia , Francesco Giazotto

We discuss heat transport in thermally-biased long Josephson tunnel junctions in the presence of an in-plane magnetic field. In full analogy with the Josephson critical current, the phase-dependent component of the heat current through the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-06 Claudio Guarcello , Francesco Giazotto , Paolo Solinas

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

We numerically demonstrate and characterize the emergence of distinct dynamical regimes of a finite temperature bosonic superfluid in an elongated Josephson junction generated by a thin Gaussian barrier over the entire temperature range…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-18 Klejdja Xhani , Nikolaos P. Proukakis

The superconducting circuits involving Josephson junction offer macroscopic quantum two-level system (qubit) which are coupled to cavity resonators and are operated via microwave signals. In this work, we study the dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Prashant Shukla

We present a method to numerically add thermal noise to the equations of motion for a circuit of Josephson junctions. A new noise term, which we call "linearly interpolated Gaussian noise," replaces the usual white noise process. It…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-19 Kenneth Segall , Dan Schult , Ushnish Ray , Toshiro Ohsumi

The investigation of the switching current probability distribution of a Josephson junction is a conventional tool to gain information on the phase slips dynamics as a function of the temperature. Here we adopt this well-established…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-15 C. Puglia , G. De Simoni , F. Giazotto

An extended Josephson junction intrinsically couples the superconducting current to the microwave cavity in the insulating barrier. We demonstrate that this coupling produces sidebands in the microwave cavity resonances of the junction. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-29 J. Hammer , M. Aprili , I. Petkovic

The ultimate spatial limit to establish a Josephson coupling between two superconducting electrodes is an atomic-scale junction. The Josephson effect in such ultrasmall junctions has been used to unveil new switching dynamics, study…

Generation and control of non-classical electromagnetic fields is of crucial importance for quantum information physics. While usual methods for the production of such fields rely on a non-linearity (of a crystal, a Josephson junction,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-08 Jean-Charles Forgues , Christian Lupien , Bertrand Reulet

We explore the coherent thermal transport sustained by solitons through a long Josephson junction, as a thermal gradient across the system is established. We observe that a soliton causes the heat current through the system to increase.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-22 Claudio Guarcello , Paolo Solinas , Alessandro Braggio , Francesco Giazotto

The dissipative dynamics of a Josephson junction in the Bose-gases is considered within the framework of the model of a tunneling Hamiltonian. The effective action which describes the dynamics of the phase difference across the junction is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-05-28 R. A. Barankov , S. N. Burmistrov

We present a mechanism for emission of electromagnetic terahertz waves by simulation. High $T_{c}$ superconductors form naturally stacked Josephson junctions. When an external current and a magnetic field are applied to the sample, fluxon…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Masashi Tachiki , Mikio Iizuka , Kazuo Minami , Syogo Tejima , Hisashi Nakamura

The Josephson effect is a prominent phenomenon of quantum supercurrents that has been widely studied in superconductors and superfluids. Typical Josephson junctions consist of two real-space superconductors (superfluids) coupled through a…

The effect of microwave irradiation on the phase dynamics of intrinsic Josephson junctions in high temperature superconductors is investigated. We demonstrate the influence of microwave's amplitude variation on the current-voltage…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-11 Mahmoud Gaafar , Yury Shukrinov

This presentation explores the various characteristics of a nonreciprocal, frequency-converting Josephson metasurface operating at millikelvin temperatures. Leveraging the unique properties of Josephson junctions, which support supercurrent…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-04 Sajjad Taravati

{Analytical equations like Richardson-Dushman's or Shockley's provided a general, if simplified conceptual background, which was widely accepted in conventional electronics and made a fundamental contribution to advances in the field. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Ioan Baldea

We elaborate a theoretical description of large Josephson junctions which is based on the Werthamer's microscopic tunneling theory. The model naturally incorporates coupling of electromagnetic radiation to the tunnel currents and,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-07-25 D. R. Gulevich , V. P. Koshelets , F. V. Kusmartsev

Two mesoscopic SQUID rings which are far from each other, are considered. A source of two-mode nonclassical microwaves irradiates the two rings with correlated photons. The Josephson currents are in this case quantum mechanical operators,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 D. I. Tsomokos , C. C. Chong , A. Vourdas