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A Josephson junction (JJ) has been under intensive study ever since 1960's. Yet even in the present era of building quantum information processing devices based on many JJs, open questions regarding a single junction remain unsolved, such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Bayan Karimi , Gorm Ole Steffensen , Andrew P. Higginbotham , Charles M. Marcus , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Jukka P. Pekola

We propose a bosonic Josephson junction (BJJ) in two nonlinear mechanical resonator coupled through two-phonon exchange interaction induced by quadratic optomechanical couplings. The nonlinear dynamic equations and effective Hamiltonian are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-22 Xun-Wei Xu , Ai-Xi Chen , Yu-xi Liu

We study the voltage noise properties including the switching rates and statistics of phase-slips in moderately damped Josephson junctions using a novel efficient numerical approach combining the matrix continued-fraction method with the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-15 Martin Žonda , Wolfgang Belzig , Tomáš Novotný

We investigate dynamic transitions and stochastic resonance phenomena in two-dimensional fully frustrated Josephson-junction arrays driven by staggered oscillating magnetic fields. As the temperature is lowered, the dynamic order parameter,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Gun Sang Jeon , Hyun Jin Kim , M. Y. Choi , Beom Jun Kim , Petter Minnhagen

We show how small-signal analysis, a standard method in electrical engineering, may be applied to thermoelectric device performance measurement by extending a dc model to the dynamical regime. We thus provide a physical ground to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-11 Y. Apertet , H. Ouerdane

We investigate the possibility of exploiting the speed and low noise features of Josephson junctions for detecting sinusoidal signals masked by Gaussian noise. We show that the escape time from the static locked state of a Josephson…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 Giovanni Filatrella , Vincenzo Pierro

Motivated by recent experiments, where a voltage biased Josephson junction is placed in series with a resonator, the classical dynamics of the circuit is studied in various domains of parameter space. This problem can be mapped onto the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 S. Meister , M. Mecklenburg , V. Gramich , J. T. Stockburger , J. Ankerhold , B. Kubala

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 have investigated the classical phase dynamics of underdamped ferromagnetic Josephson junctions by measuring the switching probability in both the stationary and nonstationary regimes down to 350 mK. We found the escape temperature to be…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 I. Petkovic , M. Aprili

We present the design, measurement and analysis of a current sensor based on a process of Josephson parametric upconversion in a superconducting microwave cavity. Terminating a coplanar waveguide with a nanobridge constriction Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Felix E. Schmidt , Daniel Bothner , Ines C. Rodrigues , Mario F. Gely , Mark D. Jenkins , Gary A. Steele

We propose to characterize L\'evy-distributed stochastic fluctuations through the measurement of the average voltage drop across a current-biased Josephson junction. We show that the noise induced switching process in the Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Claudio Guarcello , Giovanni Filatrella , Bernardo Spagnolo , Vincenzo Pierro , Davide Valenti

We present an exhaustive theoretical analysis of charge and thermoelectric transport in a normal metal-ferromagnetic insulator-superconductor (NFIS) junction, and explore the possibility of its use as a sensitive thermometer. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 F. Giazotto , P. Solinas , A. Braggio , F. S. Bergeret

Johnson noise is a small random voltage that appears between terminals of any resistor interacting with its thermal bath at temperature T. It looks like continuous, but the discreteness of the electrical charge suggests its discrete origin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Jose-Ignacio Izpura

We present measurements of 1/f frequency noise in both linear and Josephson-junction-embedded superconducting aluminum resonators in the low power, low temperature regime - typical operating conditions for superconducting qubits. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-03 K. W. Murch , S. J. Weber , E. M. Levenson-Falk , R. Vijay , I. Siddiqi

We fabricated and tested a squelch circuit consisting of a copper powder filter with an embedded Josephson junction connected to ground. For small signals (squelch-ON), the small junction inductance attenuates strongly from DC to at least 1…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-08-13 P. Forn-Diaz , R. N. Schouten , W. A. den Braver , J. E. Mooij , C. J. P. M. Harmans

Josephson Parametric Amplifiers (JPAs) are key components in quantum information processing due to their ability to amplify weak quantum signals with near-quantum-limited noise performance. This is essential for applications such as qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Ahmad Salmanogli , Hesam Zandi , Mahdi Esmaeili , Abolfazl Eskandari , Mohsen Akbari

A system providing an optical frequency with an instability comparable to that of a hydrogen maser is presented. It consists of a $5$ $\mathrm{cm}$ long, vertically oriented silicon optical resonator operated at temperatures between $1.5$…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-23 Eugen Wiens , Chang Jian Kwong , Timo Müller , Stephan Schiller

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

I present a theoretical study of current-voltage characteristics ($I$-$V$ curves ) of small Josephson junctions. In the limit of a small Josephson coupling energy $E_J \ll k_B T$ the thermal fluctuations result in a stochastic dependence of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-05-09 Mikhail V. Fistul

The careful filtering of microwave electromagnetic radiation is critical for controlling the electromagnetic environment for experiments in solid-state quantum information processing and quantum metrology at millikelvin temperatures. We…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-02-07 G. Tancredi , S. Schmidlin , P. J. Meeson