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Bosonic Josephson junctions can be realized by confining ultracold gases of bosons in multi-well traps, and studied theoretically with the $M$-site Bose-Hubbard model. We show that canonical equilibrium states of the $M$-site Bose-Hubbard…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-06-02 Alex D. Gottlieb , Thorsten Schumm

We show that two capacitively-coupled Josephson junctions, in the quantum limit, form a simple coupled qubit system with effective coupling controlled by the junction bias currents. We compute numerically the energy levels and wave…

We show that the non-local polarization response in a multimode circuit-QED setup, devised from a Cooper pair box coupled to a long chain of Josephson junctions, provides an alternative route to access the elusive Kondo screening cloud. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 Izak Snyman , Serge Florens

We treat the Cooper pairs in the superconducting electrodes of a Josephson junction (JJ) as an open system, coupled via Andreev scattering to external baths of electrons. The disequilibrium between the baths generates the direct-current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Robert Alicki , Michał Horodecki , Alejandro Jenkins , Marcin Łobejko , Gerardo Suárez

We report the observation of quantum jumps between macroscopic quantum states in a superconducting phase qubit coupled to the two-level systems in the Josephson tunnel junction, and all key features of quantum jumps are confirmed in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yang Yu , Shi-Liang Zhu , Guozhu Sun , Xueda Wen , Ning Dong , Jian Chen , Peiheng Wu , Siyuan Han

With microwave irradiation, the switching current of a Josephson junction coupled to a microscopic two-level system jumps randomly between two discrete states. We modeled the switching process of the coupled system with quantum jump…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Xueda Wen , Yiwen Wang , Ning Dong , Guozhu Sun , Jian Chen , Lin Kang , Weiwei Xu , Peiheng Wu , Yang Yu

We study atomic Josephson junctions (AJJs) with one and two bosonic species confined by a double-well potential. Proceeding from the second quantized Hamiltonian, we show that it is possible to describe the zero-temperature AJJs microscopic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-18 Giovanni Mazzarella , Marco Moratti , Luca Salasnich , Flavio Toigo

Superconducting circuits comprising Josephson junctions have spurred significant research activity due to their promise to realize scalable quantum computers. Effective Hamiltonians for these systems have traditionally been derived assuming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Thomas J. Maldonado , Alejandro W. Rodriguez , Hakan E. Türeci

We review recent theoretical and experimental progress in quantum state engineering with Josephson junction devices. The concepts of quantum computing have stimulated an increased activity in the field. Either charges or phases (fluxes) of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuriy Makhlin , Gerd Schoen , Alexander Shnirman

It is well established that superconductivity is based on a coherent quantum state of Cooper pairs with charge 2e, and this is equally true of the Josephson effect. In contrast, Kadin recently presented an alternative real-space model of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-08-02 Alan M. Kadin

We investigate the static properties of 0-$\pi$ Josephson junctions, with particular emphasis on their application in superconducting quantum circuits. Using a theoretical framework based on the sine-Gordon equation, we analyze the phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 N. Stefanakis

We investigate the solid-state implementation of a Dicke-like quantum battery consisting of a two-dimensional material-based Josephson junction inductively coupled to a resonator, using graphene as a representative example. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 V. Varrica , G. Gemme , F. M. D. Pellegrino , E. Paladino , M. Sassetti , D. Ferraro

Two basic physical models, a two-level system and a harmonic oscillator, are realized on the mesoscopic scale as coupled qubit and resonator. The realistic system includes moreover the electronics for controlling the distance between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-04 S. N. Shevchenko , A. N. Omelyanchouk , E. Il'ichev

We consider a bosonic Josephson junction made of $N$ ultracold and dilute atoms confined by a quasi one-dimensional double-well potential within the two-site Bose-Hubbard model framework. The behaviour of the system is investigated at zero…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-19 Giovanni Mazzarella , Luca Salasnich , Alberto Parola , Flavio Toigo

Recent experimental demonstrations of quantum coherence of the charge and flux states of Josephson junctions show that the quantum Josephson dynamics can be used to develop scalable quantum logic circuits. In this work, I review the basic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 D. V. Averin

The Josephson junctions (JJs) are at the heart of modern quantum technologies and metrology. In this work we establish quantum features of an atomic soliton Josephson junction (SJJ) device, which consists of two weakly-coupled condensates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Dmitriy Tsarev , Alexander Alodjants , The Vinh Ngo , Ray-Kuang Lee

Josephson junctions have demonstrated enormous potential as qubits for scalable quantum computing architectures. Here we discuss the current approaches for making multi-qubit circuits and performing quantum information processing with them.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael R. Geller , Emily J. Pritchett , Andrew T. Sornborger , F. K. Wilhelm

The superconducting Josephson junction has been demonstrated to be a strong candidate for building quantum bits or "qubits" which are the components of a future quantum computer. In recent years, considerable theoretical and experimental…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-17 Z. Thrailkill , S. Kennerly , A. Tyler , R. C. Ramos

We describe in this paper how the nonlinear Josephson inductance is the crucial circuit element for all Josephson qubits. We discuss the three types of qubit circuits, and show how these circuits use this nonlinearity in unique manners. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 John M. Martinis , Kevin Osborne

Superconducting circuits for quantum information processing are often described theoretically in terms of a discrete charge, or equivalently, a compact phase/flux, at each node in the circuit. Here we revisit the consequences of lifting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Dat Thanh Le , Jared H. Cole , T. M. Stace