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Resonant activation and noise-enhanced stability were observed in an underdamped real physical system, i.e., Josephson tunnel junctions. With a weak sinusoidal driving force applied, the thermal activated escape from a potential well…

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The Josephson junction noise detector measures the skewness of non-Gaussian noise via the asymmetry of the rate of escape from the zero-voltage state upon reversal of the bias current. The feedback of this detector on the noise generating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-10 D. F. Urban , Hermann Grabert

We consider the thermally activated escape of an overdamped Brownian particle over a potential barrier in the presence of periodic driving. A time-dependent path-integral formalism is developed which allows us to derive asymptotically exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jörg Lehmann , Peter Reimann , Peter Hänggi

We discuss how threshold detectors can be used for a direct measurement of the full counting statistics (FCS) of current fluctuations and how to implement Jose phson junctions in this respect. We propose a scheme to characterize the full co…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Tobiska , Yu. V. Nazarov

In this work, a Josephson junction consisting of two superconducting layers sandwiching an insulating layer is explored, which is subject to the effects of thermal fluctuations. The precise expressions for the evolution of Josephson phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-05 Shenglan Yuan

The Hamiltonian operator for an unbiased array of Josephson junctions with gate voltages is constructed when only Cooper pair tunnelling and charging effects are taken into account. The supercurrent through the system and the pumped current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Aunola , J. J. Toppari , J. P. Pekola

Josephson junctions constructed from superconductor-semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures have been used to realize a variety of voltage-tunable superconducting quantum devices, including qubits and parametric amplifiers. To date…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Utkan Güngördü , Rusko Ruskov , Silas Hoffman , Kyle Serniak , Andrew J. Kerman , Charles Tahan

We have identified anomalous behavior of the escape rate out of the zero-voltage state in Josephson junctions with a high critical current density Jc. For this study we have employed YBa2Cu3O7-x grain boundary junctions, which span a wide…

Microscopic theory of counting statistics of electrical noise is reviewed. We discuss a model of passive charge detector based on current fluctuations coupled to a spin, and its relation with the theory of photon counting in quantum optics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. S. Levitov

We present an analytical framework to study the escape rate from a metastable state under the influence of two external multiplicative cross-correlated noise processes. Starting from a phenomenological stationary Langevin description with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-04-17 Jyotipratim Ray Chaudhuri , Sudip Chattopadhyay , Suman Kumar Banik

In this manuscript we show that a noise-activated escape phenomenon occurs in closed Hamiltonian systems. Due to the energy fluctuations generated by the noise, the isopotential curves open up and the particles can eventually escape in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-17 Alexandre R. Nieto , Jesus M. Seoane , Miguel A. F. Sanjuan

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

Within a density matrix approach for nuclear many--body system, it is derived non--Markovian Langevin equations of motion for nuclear collective parameters, where memory effects are defined by memory time. The developed stochastic approach…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-24 V. M. Kolomietz , S. V. Radionov

We consider the transport of electrons passing through a mesoscopic device possessing internal dynamical quantum degrees of freedom. The mutual interaction between the system and the conduction electrons contributes to the current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-08 Christopher Birchall , Henning Schomerus

This paper introduces a comprehensive extension of the path integral formalism to model stochastic processes with arbitrary multiplicative noise. To do so, It\^o diffusive process is generalized by incorporating a multiplicative noise term…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 F. S. Abril-Bermúdez , C. J. Quimbay , J. E. Trinidad-Segovia , M. A Sánchez-Granero

We study the effect of local unitary noise on the entanglement evolution of a two-qubit system subject to local monitoring and inter-qubit coupling. We construct a stochastic Hamiltonian by incorporating the noise into the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Dominic Shea , Alessandro Romito

When a mesoscopic conductor is coupled to a high-quality electromagnetic cavity the flow of charges and the flux of photons leaking out of the cavity can both depend strongly on the coupled quantum dynamics of the system. Using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Björn Kubala , Joachim Ankerhold , A. D. Armour

The influence of fluctuations and periodical driving on temporal characteristics of short overdamped Josephson junction is analyzed. We obtain the standard deviation of the switching time in the presence of a dichotomous driving force for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrey L. Pankratov , Bernardo Spagnolo

Many complex real world phenomena exhibit abrupt, intermittent or jumping behaviors, which are more suitable to be described by stochastic differential equations under non-Gaussian L\'evy noise. Among these complex phenomena, the most…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Wei Wei , Ting Gao , Jinqiao Duan , Xiaoli Chen

We analyzed multimode Josephson junctions with exciton-polaritons (polaritonic Josephson junctions) when several coupling mechanisms of fundamental and excited states are present. The applied method is based on Keldysh-Green function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 G. Pavlovic , G. Malpuech , I. A. Shelykh