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The current-voltage characteristic of a driven superconducting Josephson junction displays discrete steps. This phenomenon, called the Shapiro steps, forms today's voltage standard! Here, we report the observation of Shapiro steps in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-07 Erik Bernhart , Marvin Röhrle , Vijay Pal Singh , Ludwig Mathey , Luigi Amico , Herwig Ott

We reconsider the dynamics of stochastic or thermal tunneling in theories like Dirac-Born-Infeld inflation that have non-minimal kinetic terms and, as a result, strongly non-Gaussian perturbations. We first describe a local description of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-14 Andrew J. Tolley , Mark Wyman

We discuss the resonant activation phenomenon on a Josephson junction due to the coupling of the Josephson system with axions. We show how such an effect can be exploited for axion detection. A nonmonotonic behavior, with a minimum, of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-14 Roberto Grimaudo , Davide Valenti , Bernardo Spagnolo , Giovanni Filatrella , Claudio Guarcello

The magnetic field distribution in the barrier of small planar Josephson tunnel junctions is numerically simulated in the case when an external magnetic field is applied perpendicular to the barrier plane. The simulations allow for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-01-11 R. Monaco , M. Aaroe , V. P. Koshelets , J. Mygind

Diffusion with stochastic transport is investigated here when the random driving process is a very general Gaussian process, including Fractional Brownian motion. The purpose is the comparison with a deterministic PDE, which in certain…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Franco Flandoli , Francesco Russo

We investigate the non-Markovian characteristics in continuous measurement of a charge qubit by a quantum point contact. The backflow of information from the reservoir to the system in the non-Markovian domain gives rise to strikingly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 JunYan Luo , HuJun Jiao , Xiao-Li Lang , BiTao Xiong , Xiao-Ling He

Multiplicative noise makes stochastic dynamics depend on how the white-noise limit is interpreted. In multidimensional systems with matrix-valued noise amplitudes $\sigma(x)$, this dependence includes a local Jacobian contribution that is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-14 Surachate Limkumnerd

In this work, we develop a comprehensive numerical analysis of the dynamic response of a Josephson Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifier (JTWPA) by varying the driving parameters, with a focus on the pathways leading to chaotic behavior. By…

In recent years, the discovery of complex dynamic systems in various fields through data-driven methods has attracted widespread attention. This method has played the role of data and has become an advantageous tool for us to study complex…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Min Dai , Ting Gao , Yubin Lu , Yayun Zheng , Jinqiao Duan

We study the problem of parametric estimation for continuously observed stochastic processes driven by additive small fractional Brownian motion with Hurst index 0<H<1/2 and 1/2<H<1. Under some assumptions on the drift coefficient, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Shohei Nakajima , Yasutaka Shimizu

We present a numerical path-integral iteration scheme for the low dimensional reduced density matrix of a time-dependent quantum dissipative system. Our approach simultaneously accounts for the combined action of a microscopically modelled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 A. M. Barth , A. Vagov , V. M. Axt

The stochastization of the Jacobi second equality of classical mechanics, by Gaussian white noises for the Lagrangian of a particle in an arbitrary field is considered. The quantum mechanical Hamilton operator similar to that in Euclidian…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Tchoffo , A. A. Belinson

A Josephson junction embedded in a dissipative circuit can be externally driven to induce nonlinear dynamics of its phase. Classically, under sufficiently strong driving and weak damping, dynamic multi-stability emerges associated with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Jennifer Gosner , Björn Kubala , Joachim Ankerhold

We investigate, by experiments and numerical simulations, thermal activation processes of Josephson tunnel junctions in the presence of microwave radiation. When the applied signal resonates with the Josephson plasma frequency oscillations,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-08-28 N. Grønbech-Jensen , M. G. Castellano , F. Chiarello , M. Cirillo , C. Cosmelli , V. Merlo , R. Russo , G. Torrioli

Recent microwave reflection measurements of Josephson junction ladders have suggested the presence of nearly coherent collective charge oscillations deep in the insulating phase. Here we develop a qualitative understanding of such coherent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-26 Huan-Kuang Wu , Jay D. Sau

Flux dynamics in an annular long Josephson junction is studied. Three main topics are covered. The first is chaotic flux dynamics and its prediction via Melnikov integrals. It turns out that DC current bias cannot induce chaotic flux…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-07-17 Z. C. Feng , Y. Charles Li

Swept bias experiments carried out on Josephson junctions yield the distributions of the probabilities of early switching from the zero voltage state. Kramers' theory of thermally activated escape from a one-dimensional potential is well…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-09 James A. Blackburn , Matteo Cirillo , Niels Grønbech-Jensen

We compute statistical properties of the stochastic entropy production associated with the nonstationary transport of heat through a system coupled to a time dependent nonisothermal heat bath. We study the 1-d stochastic evolution of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-14 Ian J. Ford , Zachary P. L. Laker , Henry J. Charlesworth

We study mesoscopic fluctuations in the supercurrent of a Josephson junction consisting of a topological insulator microbridge between two conventional superconductors. In the model, we account for the strong proximity effect when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-02 Marcus Marinho , Guilherme Vieira , Tobias Micklitz , Georg Schwiete , Alex Levchenko

The archetypal system demonstrating stochastic resonance is nothing more than a threshold triggered device. It consists of a periodic modulated input and noise. Every time an output crosses the threshold the signal is recorded. Such a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-10 Krzysztof Szczepaniec , Bartlomiej Dybiec