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We study the dynamics of moving discrete breathers in an interfaced piecewise DNA molecule. This is a DNA chain in which all the base pairs are identical and there exists an interface such that the base pairs dipole moments at each side are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-09-08 A. Alvarez , F. R. Romero , J. F. R. Archilla , J. Cuevas , P. V. Larsen

It is well known that the current-biased Josephson junction (CBJJ) can serve as a Josephson threshold detector (JTD) for the sensitive detection of weak microwave signals. Based on the recent work (PRB {\bf 111}, 024501 (2025)) on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Y. Q. Chai , M. Y. Wang , S. N. Wang , P. H. Ouyang , L. F. Wei

The dynamics of static and travelling breathers in two-species Bose-Einstein condensates in a one-dimensional optical lattice is modelled within the tight-binding approximation. Two coupled discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-19 Russell Campbell , Gian-Luca Oppo , Mateusz Borkowski

We present an experimental and theoretical study of row switching in two-dimensional Josephson junction arrays. We have observed novel dynamic states with peculiar percolative patterns of the voltage drop inside the arrays. These states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Abraimov , P. Caputo , G. Filatrella , M. V. Fistul , G. Yu. Logvenov , A. V. Ustinov

We study numerically the motion of vortices in two-dimensional arrays of resistively shunted Josephson junctions. An extra vortex is created in the ground states by introducing novel boundary conditions and made mobile by applying external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jong Soo Lim , M. Y. Choi , Beom Jun Kim , J. Choi

Recently, using a numerical surface cooling approach, we have shown that highly energetic discrete breathers (DB) can form in the stiffest parts of nonlinear network models of large protein structures. In the present study, using an…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Francesco Piazza , Yves-Henri Sanejouand

Nonlinearity and disorder are key players in vibrational lattice dynamics, responsible for localization and delocalization phenomena. $q$-Breathers -- periodic orbits in nonlinear lattices, exponentially localized in the reciprocal linear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 M. V. Ivanchenko

We calculate the current-voltage characteristics and critical current I_c^{array} of an array of Josephson-coupled superconducting wires. The array has two layers, each consisting of a set of parallel wires, arranged at right angles, such…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Kent Harbaugh , D. Stroud

Current-biased Josephson junctions exhibit hysteretic transitions between dissipative and superconducting states as characterized by switching and retrapping currents. Here, we develop a theory for diode-like effects in the switching and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-11 Jacob F. Steiner , Larissa Melischek , Martina Trahms , Katharina J. Franke , Felix von Oppen

We consider the quantum dynamics of excitations in a system of two capacitively coupled Josephson junctions. Quantum breather states are found in the middle of the energy spectrum of the confined nonescaping states of the system. They are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. A. Pinto , S. Flach

We have numerically and analytically studied ac+dc driven Josephson-junction arrays with a single vortex or with a single vortex-antivortex pair present. We find single-vortex steps in the voltage versus current characteristics (I-V) of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-15 P. H. E. Tiesinga , T. J. Hagenaars , J. E. van Himbergen , Jorge V. José

We numerically investigate dynamic critical behaviors of two-dimensional (2D) Josephson-junction arrays with positional disorder in the scheme of the resistively shunted junction dynamics. Large-scale computation of the current voltage…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Jaegon Um , Beom Jun Kim , Petter Minnhagen , M. Y. Choi , Sung-Ik Lee

The measurement of higher order cumulants of the current noise generated by a nonlinear mesoscopic conductor using a Josephson junction as on-chip detector is investigated theoretically. The paper addresses the regime where the noise of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-16 Hermann Grabert

By applying a staggered driving force in a prototypical discrete model with a quartic nonlinearity, we demonstrate the spontaneous formation and destruction of discrete breathers with a selected frequency due to thermal fluctuations. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-05-20 David Cubero , Jesus Cuevas , P. G. Kevrekidis

We study the nature of correlations within, and the transition into, the floating phase of dissipative Josephson junction arrays. Order parameter correlations in this phase are long-ranged in time, but only short-ranged in space. A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Sumanta Tewari , John Toner , Sudip Chakravarty

We describe a simple dynamical model for an underdamped Josephson junction array coupled to a resonant cavity. From numerical solutions of the model in one dimension, we find that (i) current-voltage characteristics of the array have…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Almaas , D. Stroud

We report on the direct observation of an oscillating atomic current in a one-dimensional array of Josephson junctions realized with an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. The array is created by a laser standing-wave, with the condensates…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 F. S. Cataliotti , S. Burger , C. Fort , P. Maddaloni , F. Minardi , A. Trombettoni , A. Smerzi , M. Inguscio

A crossover at a temperature T* in the temperature dependence of the width s of the distribution of switching currents of moderately damped Josephson junctions has been reported in a number of recent publications, with positive ds/dT and IV…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 J. C. Fenton , P. A. Warburton

We study, analytically and numerically, phase locking of driven vortex lattices in fully-frustrated Josephson junction arrays at zero temperature. We consider the case when an ac current is applied {\it perpendicular} to a dc current. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Veronica Marconi , Alejandro Kolton , Daniel Dominguez , Niels Gronbech-Jensen

We examine the dynamics of strongly localized periodic solutions (discrete breathers) in two-dimensional array of coupled finite one-dimensional chains of oscillators. Localization patterns with both single and multiple localization sites…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-18 Itay Grinberg , Oleg V. Gendelman