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We investigate by theory and experiment, the Josephson junction switching current detector in an environment with frequency dependent damping. Analysis of the circuit's phase space show that a favorable topology for switching can be…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Jochen Walter , Erik Tholen , Joachim Sjostrand , David B. Haviland

We report on the occurrence of multiple hopping and retrapping of a Brownian particle in a tilted washboard potential. The escape dynamic has been studied experimentally by measuring the switching current distributions as a function of…

Demixing of binary fluids subjected to slow temperature ramps shows repeated waves of nucleation which arise as a consequence of the competition between generation of supersaturation by the temperature ramp and relaxation of supersaturation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-16 Izabella J. Benczik , Jürgen Vollmer

In studies of the QCD deconfining phase transition or crossover by means of heavy ion experiments, one ought to be concerned about non-equilibrium effects due to heating and cooling of the system. Motivated by this, we look at hysteresis…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 Bernd A. Berg , Urs M. Heller , Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns , Alexander Velytsky

We investigate the roto-breathers recently observed in experiments on Josephson ladders subjected to a uniform transverse bias current. We describe the switching mechanism in which the number of rotating junctions increases. In the region…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard T Giles , Feodor V Kusmartsev

We calculate the damping rate of Josephson plasmons due to thermally excited quasiparticles in a nonequilibrium steady state. It is known that the experimentally observed dependence of the damping rate on the phase difference behaves in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-06 Takanobu Jujo

In a recent study, (Jain et al 2007 Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 190601), a symmetric exclusion process with time-dependent hopping rates was introduced. Using simulations and a perturbation theory, it was shown that if the hopping rates at two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-17 Rahul Marathe , Kavita Jain , Abhishek Dhar

We report on the switching current distributions in nano-hybrid Josephson junctions made of InAs semiconductor nanowires. Temperature dependence of the switching current distribution can be understood by motion of Josephson phase particle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-17 Bum-Kyu Kim , Yong-Joo Doh

At zero temperature, a Josephson junction coupled to an ohmic environment displays a quantum phase transition between superconducting and insulating phases, depending whether the resistance of the environment is below or above the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-21 Tsuyoshi Yamamoto , Leonid I. Glazman , Manuel Houzet

In the present work, we explore homogenization techniques for a class of switching diffusion processes whose drift and diffusion coefficients, and jump intensities are smooth, spatially periodic functions; we assume full coupling between…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Chetan D. Pahlajani

Traditional static methods in phase transition studies, provide good insights into the thermodynamics of black holes. However, they practically lose sight of the dynamic aspects and temporal sequence of events. The Kramer's escape rate,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Mohammad Ali S. Afshar , Saeed Noori Gashti , Mohammad Reza Alipour , Jafar Sadeghi

We study the effect of dissipation on quantum phase fluctuations in d-wave superconductors. Dissipation, arising from a nonzero low frequency optical conductivity which has been measured in experiments below $T_c$, has two effects: (1) a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Benfatto , S. Caprara , C. Castellani , A. Paramekanti , M. Randeria

This study examines anomalous diffusion and dynamical phase transitions in a nonlinear bouncer model with short-range interactions leading to velocity-dependent (adiabatic) collisions. By varying a control parameter, transitions between…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-17 Luiz Antonio Barreiro

We analyse how the sampling dynamics of distributions evolve in score-based diffusion models using cross-fluctuations, a centered-moment statistic from statistical physics. Specifically, we show that starting from an unbiased isotropic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Sai Niranjan Ramachandran , Manish Krishan Lal , Suvrit Sra

We report measurements of the flux hysteresis curves and trapped flux distribution in an YBa2Cu3O7 r.f. SQUID containing two closely spaced grain boundary Josephson junctions in parallel. Broadening of the flux distribution from T = 15 K to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 C. H. Gardiner , R. A. M. Lee , J. C. Gallop , A. Ya. Tzalenchuk , J. C. Macfarlane , L. Hao

A diffusion process for charge distributions in a phase space is examined. The corresponding charge moves in a force field and under an action of a random field. There are the diffusion motions for coordinates and for momenta. In our model,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-03-19 E. M. Beniaminov

Quantum phase slips are the primary excitations in one-dimensional superfluids and superconductors at low temperatures but their existence in ultracold quantum gases has not been demonstrated yet. We now study experimentally the nucleation…

Using large scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations of lattice bosonic models, we precisely investigate the effect of weak Josephson tunneling between 2D superfluid or superconducting layers. In the clean case, the Kosterlitz-Thouless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-05 Nicolas Laflorencie

In the work of Das and Sharma [Phys. Rev. A 105, 033716 (2022)] the phase transitions of the Dicke model are studied. Its main result is that, besides the well-known quantum phase transition, excited-state quantum phase transition and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-14 Ángel L. Corps , Armando Relaño

By means of a two-mode model, we show that transitions to different arrays of coexistent regimes in the phase space can be attained by rotating a double-well system, which consists of a toroidal condensate with two diametrically placed…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-11-24 D. M. Jezek , H. M. Cataldo