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We study static and dynamical properties of fluxons in a long annular Josephson junction (JJ) with a current injected at one point and collected back at a close point. Uniformly distributed dc bias current is applied too. We demonstrate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Boris Malomed , Alexey Ustinov

We formulate a fully self-consistent, microscopic model to study the retardation and correlation effects of the barrier within a Josephson junction. The junction is described by a series of planes, with electronic correlation included…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Miller , J. K. Freericks

A simple model of the driven motion of interacting particles in a two dimensional random medium is analyzed, focusing on the critical behavior near to the threshold that separates a static phase from a flowing phase with a steady-state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 Joe Watson , Daniel S. Fisher

In this Letter we study the phase diagram and the approach to the equilibrium of Josephson junction arrays on a dice lattice for two different values of the magnetic frustration ($f=1/2,1/3$). In both cases the array unedrgoes a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Vittorio Cataudella , Rosario Fazio

We present a theoretical and experimental study of Josephson vortex (fluxon) moving in the presence of spatially homogeneous dc and ac bias currents. By mapping this problem to the problem of calculating the current-voltage characteristic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 M. V. Fistul , E. Goldobin , A. V. Ustinov

We study the effects of finite voltage bias on Caroli-de Gennes-Matricon (CdGM) states in topological Josephson junctions with a vortex lattice. The voltage drives vortices into steady motion, squeezing the CdGM spectrum due to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-10 Kiryl Piasotski , Adrian Reich , Alexander Shnirman

We study the dynamics of vortices in strongly disordered $d=2$ Josephson junction arrays and superconducting films driven by a current. We find a dynamic phase transition in vortex flow at a current $I_p>I_c$. Below $I_p$ there is plastic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel Dominguez

Junctions created by coupling two superconductors via a semiconductor nanowire in the presence of high magnetic fields are the basis for detection, fusion, and braiding of Majorana bound states. We study NbTiN/InSb nanowire/NbTiN Josephson…

We investigate the critical current, $I_C$, of ballistic Josephson junctions made of encapsulated graphene/boron-nitride heterostructures. We observe a crossover from the short to the long junction regimes as the length of the device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 I. V. Borzenets , F. Amet , C. T. Ke , A. W. Draelos , M. T. Wei , A. Seredinski , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Y. Bomze , M. Yamamoto , S. Tarucha , G Finkelstein

A Josephson junction laser is realised when a microwave cavity is driven by a voltage-biased Josephson junction. Through the ac Josephson effect, a dc voltage generates a periodic drive that acts on the cavity and generates interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Ben Lang , Grace F. Morley , Andrew D. Armour

In this note I survey the extensive literature on the dynamics of large series arrays of identical current biased Josephson junctions coupled through various shared loads. The equations describing the dynamics are invariant under…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-07-04 D. G. Aronson

Gauge-invariant phase difference and critical currents of cross-type Josephson junctions with thin and narrow superconducting strips exposed to three-dimensional magnetic fields are theoretically investigated. When a sandwich-type Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-29 Yasunori Mawatari

The $4\pi$ Josephson Effect is a distinguishing feature of a topological Josephson junction. However, stringent conditions make it hard to observe in experiments. Here we numerically study the transient transport properties in a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Dihao Sun , Jie Liu

As a novel quantum phenomenon with nonreciprocal supercurrent, the Josephson diode effect was intensively studied in recent years. Here, we construct a generalized resistively capacitance shunted junction (RCSJ) model as a low-energy…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-01 Da Wang , Qiang-Hua Wang , Congjun Wu

We argue that negative critical currents arise generically in Josephson junctions formed by single channel conductors. Specifically, we theoretically study the Josephson coupling between two superconducting leads connected by a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-24 A. V. Rozhkov , Tony Liu , A. V. Andreev , B. Z. Spivak

The scaling behavior of the current-voltage ($IV$) characteristics of a two-dimensional proximity-coupled Josephson junction array (JJA) with quenched bond disorder was investigated for frustrations $f=1/5$, 1/3, 2/5, and 1/2. For all these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Young-Je Yun , In-Cheol Baek , Mu-Yong Choi

In the presence of an external magnetic field Cooper pairs in noncentrosymmetric superconductors can acquire finite momentum. Recent theory predicts that such finite-momentum pairing can lead to an asymmetric critical current, where a…

A model of a superconducting tunnel junction coupled to a mechanical oscillator is studied at zero temperature in the case of linear coupling between the oscillator and tunneling electrons. It is found that the Josephson current flowing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Xin Zhu , Z. Nussinov , A. V. Balatsky

We present transport measurements on long diffusive graphene-based Josephson junctions. Several junctions are made on a single-domain crystal of CVD graphene and feature the same contact width of ~9$\mu$m but vary in length from 400 to 1000…

We consider a fractional Josephson vortex in a long 0-kappa Josephson junction. A uniformly applied bias current exerts a Lorentz force on the vortex. If the bias current exceeds the critical current, an integer fluxon is torn off the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-02 U. Kienzle , T. Gaber , K. Buckenmaier , K. Ilin , M. Siegel , D. Koelle , R. Kleiner , E. Goldobin