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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 the Josephson current in a junction comprising two superconductors linked by a strong ferromagnet in presence of impurities. We focus on a regime where the electron (and hole) motion is ballistic over the exchange length and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Konschelle , J. Cayssol , A. Buzdin

We studied current-voltage characteristics of long one dimensional Josephson junction chains with Josephson energy much larger than charging energy, $E_J \gg E_C$. In this regime, typical IV curves of the samples consist of a supercurrent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Adem Ergül , Jack Lidmar , Jan Johansson , David Schaeffer , Magnus Lindblom , David B. Haviland

Switching current distributions have for decades been an indispensable diagnostic tool for studying Josephson junctions. They have played a key role in testing the conjecture of a macroscopic quantum state in junctions at millikelvin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-22 James A. Blackburn

We investigate the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) scaling of the critical current of Josephson junction dynamics across a barrier potential in a two-dimensional (2D) Bose gas, motivated by recent experiments by Luick \textit{et al.}…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-08-27 Vijay Pal Singh , Niclas Luick , Lennart Sobirey , Ludwig Mathey

Experiments on the distributions of switching currents in Josephson junctions are sensitive probes of the mechanism by which a junction changes abruptly to a finite voltage state. At low temperatures data exhibit smooth and gradual…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-19 James A. Blackburn

We have studied experimentally the escape dynamics in underdamped capacitively shunted and unshunted Josephson junctions with submicroampere critical currents below 0.5 K temperatures. In the shunted junctions, thermal activation process…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-17 Y. Yoon , S. Gasparinetti , M. Möttönen , J. P. Pekola

A superconductor/normal metal/superconductor Josephson junction is a coherent electron system where the thermodynamic entropy depends on temperature and phase difference across the weak-link. Here, exploiting the phase-temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-04 Francesco Vischi , Matteo Carrega , Pauli Virtanen , Elia Strambini , Alessandro Braggio , Francesco Giazotto

Recent progress in the study of dynamical phase transitions has been made with a large-deviation approach to study trajectories of stochastic jumps using a thermodynamic formalism. We study this method applied to an open quantum system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-31 Sam Genway , Juan P. Garrahan , Igor Lesanovsky , Andrew D. Armour

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

We experimentally investigate the electronic transport properties of a three-terminal graphene Josephson junction. We find that self-heating effects strongly influence the behaviour of this multiterminal Josephson junction (MTJJ) system. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Máté Kedves , Tamás Pápai , Gergő Fülöp , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Péter Makk , Szabolcs Csonka

We have developed a scheme for a high resolution measurement of the switching current distribution of a current biased Josephson tunnel junction using a timing technique. The measurement setup is implemented such that the digital control…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Wallraff , A. Lukashenko , C. Coqui , T. Duty , A. V. Ustinov

We present the results of theoretical study of Current-Phase Relations (CPR) in Josephson junctions of SIsFS type, where 'S' is a bulk superconductor and 'IsF' is a complex weak link consisting of a superconducting film 's', a metallic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-17 S. V. Bakurskiy , N. V. Klenov , I. I. Soloviev , M. Yu. Kupriyanov , A. A. Golubov

We have developed a model for experiments in which the bias current applied to a Josephson junction is slowly increased from zero until the junction switches from its superconducting zero-voltage state, and the bias value at which this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-06 James A. Blackburn , Matteo Cirillo , Niels Grønbech-Jensen

We theoretically investigate heat transport in temperature-biased Josephson tunnel junctions in the presence of an in-plane magnetic field. In full analogy with the Josephson critical current, the phase-dependent component of the heat flux…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-12 F. Giazotto , M. J. Martinez-Perez , P. Solinas

We compute the critical Josephson current through a single-molecule junction. As a model for a molecule with a bistable conformational degree of freedom, we study an interacting single-level quantum dot coupled to a two-level system and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Andreas Schulz , Alex Zazunov , Reinhold Egger

We investigate the superfluid dynamics of a Josephson junction beyond the mean-field description, incorporating the role of thermal fluctuations as well as quantum fluctuations. Using a formalism that accounts for the fluctuations in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-01 Andrea Bardin , Francesco Lorenzi , Luca Salasnich

We report on the study of the phase dynamics of high critical temperature superconductor Josephson junctions. We realized YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-x}$ (YBCO) grain boundary (GB) biepitaxial junctions in the submicron scale, using low loss…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-07-02 D. Stornaiuolo , G. Rotoli , D. Massarotti , F. Carillo , L. Longobardi , F. Beltram , F. Tafuri

We propose to use a time-dependent imaginary potential to describe quantum mechanical tunneling through time-varying potential barriers. We use Gamow solutions for stationary tunneling problems to justify our choice of potential, and we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-20 Christian Kraglund Andersen , Klaus Mølmer

We investigate nonequilibrium dynamics of a triad of fermionic superfluids connected via Josephson junctions, following sudden switch-on of two-body loss in one of the three superfluids. By formulating the dissipative BCS theory for the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-02 Soma Takemori , Kazuki Yamamoto