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We investigate the influence of Pearl vortices in the vicinity of an edge-type Josephson junction for a superconducting thin-film loop in the form of an annulus, under uniform magnetic field. Specifically, we obtain the exact analytic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-26 Antonio Badia-Majos

We investigate HgTe/Nb-based three-terminal Josephson junctions in T-shaped and X-shaped geometries and their critical current contours (CCCs). By decomposing the CCCs into the contributions from individual junctions, we uncover how bias…

Josephson junctions, as pivotal components of modern technologies such as superconducting quantum computing, owe their prominence to their unique nonlinear properties at low temperatures. Despite their extensive use in static…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-06 Sajjad Taravati

We have measured the depinning of trapped kinks in a ratchet potential using a fabricated circular array of Josephson junctions. Our ratchet system consists of a parallel array of junctions with alternating cell inductances and junctions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Trias , J. J. Mazo , F. Falo , T. P. Orlando

We investigate the influence of quantum fluctuations and weak disorder on the vortex dynamics in a two-dimensional superconducting Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless system. The temperature below which quantum fluctuations dominate the vortex…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-11-09 Aleksandra Petkovic , Valerii M. Vinokur , Thomas Nattermann

We propose a mechanism of coherent emission from driven vortices in stacked intrinsic Josephson junctions. In contrast to super-radiance, which occurs only for highly ordered vortex lattices, we predict resonant radiation emission from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-05 Fabio Marchesoni , Sergey Savel'ev , Masashi Tachiki , Franco Nori

We investigate the phase dynamics of a long Josephson junction (LJJ) with two-gap superconductors. In this junction, two channels for tunneling between the adjacent superconductor (S) layers as well as one interband channel within each S…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-04 Ju H. Kim , Bal-Ram Ghimire , Hao-Yu Tsai

We investigate the dynamics of interacting magnetic flux lines driven by an external current in the presence of linear pinning centers, arranged either in a periodic square lattice or placed randomly in space, by means of three-dimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas J. Bullard , Jayajit Das , Uwe C. Tauber

We consider the inverse problem of designing an array of superconducting Josephson junctions that has a given maximum static current pattern as function of the applied magnetic field. Such devices are used for magnetometry and as Terahertz…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 J. G. Caputo , L. Loukitch

A numerical simulation is carried out for static vortices in a long Josephson junction with an exponentially varying width. At specified values of the parameters the corresponding boundary-value problem admits more than one solution. Each…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 E. G. Semerdzhieva , T. L. Boyadzhiev , Yu. M. Shukrinov

We consider the effect of positional disorder on a Josephson junction array with an applied magnetic field of f=1/2 flux quantum per unit cell. This is equivalent to the problem of random Gaussian phase shifts in the fully frustrated 2D XY…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Pramod Gupta , S. Teitel

We report relaxation oscillations in a one-dimensional array of Josephson junctions. The oscillations are circuit-dual to those ordinarily observed in single junctions. The dual circuit quantitatively accounts for temporal dynamics of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 S. Mukhopadhyay , D. A. Lancheros-Naranjo , J. Senior , A. P. Higginbotham

We present an experimental and theoretical study of the magnetic field dependence of the critical current of Josephson junction ladders. At variance with the well-known case of a one-dimensional (1D) parallel array of Josephson junctions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Binder , P. Caputo , M. V. Fistul , A. V. Ustinov , G. Filatrella

The transition from the model of a long Josephson junction of variable width to the model of a junction with a coordinate-dependent Josephson current amplitude is effected through a coordinate transformation. This establishes the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 E. G. Semerdzhieva , T. L. Boyadjiev , Yu. M. Shukrinov

We present a theoretical analysis of recent experiments on current-driven vortex dynamics in the Corbino disk geometry. This geometry introduces controlled spatial gradients in the driving force and allows the study of the onset of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Panayotis Benetatos , M. Cristina Marchetti

We study the long-range triplet Josephson current in a clean junction composed of two s-wave superconductors and a normal-metal/ferromagnet/normal-metal trilayer. Through applying the bias voltages on the metal regions by two antiparallel…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 Hao Meng , Xiuqiang Wu , Feng Mei

It is predicted that the fully frustrated Josephson-junction array on a square lattice with alternating columns of junctions having a reduced critical current $I_{weak}=\mu I_{0}$(with $\mu<1$ and $I_{0}$ the critical current of all other…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. V. Simkin

Influence of the spin-transfer torque on the vortex state magnetic nanodisk is studied numerically via Slonczewski-Berger mechanism. The existence of a critical current is determined for the case of same-directed electrical current, its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Oleksii M. Volkov , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Denis D. Sheka , Yuri Gaididei

Precise control of topologically protected excitations, such as quantum vortices in atomtronic circuits, opens new possibilities for future quantum technologies. We theoretically investigate the dynamics of Josephson vortices (rotational…

We calculate the dc Josephson current $I_J$ for two types of superconductor-ferromagnet (S/F) Josephson junctions. The junction of the first type is a S/F/S junction. On the basis of the Eilenberger equation, the Josephson current is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 F. S. Bergeret , A. F. Volkov , K. B. Efetov