A single-Cooper-pair transistor (SCPT) is coupled capacitively to a voltage biased Josephson junction, used as a high-frequency generator. Thanks to the high energy of photons generated by the Josephson junction, transitions between energy levels, not limited to the first two levels, were induced and the effect of this irradiation on the dc Josephson current of the SCPT was measured. The phase ...

We consider a Josephson junction where the weak-link is formed by a non-centrosymmetric ferromagnet. In such a junction, the superconducting current acts as a direct driving force on the magnetic moment. We show that the a.c. Josephson effect generates a magnetic precession providing then a feedback to the current. Magnetic dynamics result in several anomalies of current-phase relations (second...

We have measured the ac Josephson effect in small-area superconducting tunnel junctions at 604 GHz (A = 496pm) using a resonant planar dipole antenna to couple the radiation into the junction. In a 176-fl junction, we have observed up to the 7th Josephson step (at 8.75 m V), a performance comparable to that seen in point contacts. We also compare our data with the results of the RSJ model and o...

We consider a one-dimensional Josephson junction in a superconducting film with the thickness that is much less than the London penetration depth. We treat an electromagnetic wave propagating along this tunnel contact. We show that the electrodynamics of a Josephson junction in a thin film is nonlocal if the wave length is less than the Pearl penetration depth. We find the integro-differential ...

 Due to the small roughness in the surface of the crystal sample, it is hard to use photolithography in the patterning process of the Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ intrinsic Josephson junction. In this paper, we report a simple technique for fabricating the Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ intrinsic Josephson junctions. In the patterning process metal masks are used instead of photolithography and argon ion milling is appli...

We describe a simple Hamiltonian for an underdamped Josephson array coupled to a single photon mode in a resonant cavity. Using a Hartree-like mean-field theory, we show that, for any given strength of coupling between the photon field and the Josephson junctions, there is a transition from incoherence to coherence as a function of N, the number of Josephson junctions in the array. Above that v...

Inspired by recent experiments, we study a short superconducting junction of length L ξ (coherence length) inserted in a dc-SQUID containing an ancillary Josephson tunneling junction. We evaluate the nonequilibrium occupation of the Andreev bound states (ABS) for the case of a conventional junction and a topological junction, with the latter case of ABS corresponding to a Majorana mode. We take...

We report our studies on single-picosecond electrical pulse switching of YBa2Cu3O7−x (YBCO) grain-boundary bicrystal Josephson junctions. The test structures consisted of coplanar strip (CPS) transmission lines that were patterned in 50 nm thick YBCO films prepared on (100) MgO bicrystal substrates. Each CPS contained a 5 μm wide, 10 μm long microbridge and a 5 μm wide grain-boundary Josephson ...

Microwave circulators play an important role in quantum technology based on superconducting circuits. The conventional circulator design, which employs ferrite materials, is bulky and involves strong magnetic fields, rendering it unsuitable for integration chips. One promising design on-chip a passive Josephson-junction ring. In this paper, we consider two operational issues such device: circui...