Solitons in Josephson junctions

AV Ustinov - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 1998 - Elsevier
Magnetic flux quanta in Josephson junctions, often called fluxons, in many cases behave as
solitons. A review of recent experiments and modelling of fluxon dynamics in Josephson …

Quantum dynamics of a single vortex

A Wallraff, A Lukashenko, J Lisenfeld, A Kemp… - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
Vortices occur naturally in a wide range of gases and fluids, from macroscopic to
microscopic scales. In Bose–Einstein condensates of dilute atomic gases, superfluid helium …

Shaped Josephson junction qubits

AV Ustinov, A Walraff, Y Koval - US Patent 6,627,915, 2003 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A Superconducting qubit is presented. The qubit is a shaped long
Josephson junction with a magnetic fluxon Such that, in the presence of an externally …

Annular long Josephson junctions in a magnetic field: engineering and probing the fluxon interaction potential

A Wallraff, Y Koval, M Levitchev, MV Fistul… - Journal of Low …, 2000 - Springer
The interaction of a Josephson fluxon with an externalmagnetic field-induced potential in a
long Josephson junctionis investigated experimentally. The thermal activation of thefluxon …

Rotational fluxons of Bose-Einstein condensates in coplanar double-ring traps

J Brand, TJ Haigh, U Zülicke - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and …, 2009 - APS
Rotational analogs to magnetic fluxons in conventional Josephson junctions are predicted to
emerge in the ground state of rotating tunnel-coupled annular Bose-Einstein condensates …

Macroscopic quantum dynamics of junctions with ferromagnetic insulators

S Kawabata, S Kashiwaya, Y Asano, Y Tanaka… - Physical Review B …, 2006 - APS
We theoretically investigate the macroscopic quantum dynamics of a π junction with a
superconductor (S) and a multiferroic material or a ferromagnetic insulator (FI). By deriving …

Current-voltage characteristics of tunnel Josephson junctions with a ferromagnetic interlayer

AS Vasenko, S Kawabata, AA Golubov… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
We present a quantitative study of the current-voltage characteristics (CVC) of diffusive
superconductor/insulator/ferromagnet/superconductor (SIFS) tunnel Josephson junctions. In …

Theory of macroscopic quantum tunneling in high- -axis Josephson junctions

T Yokoyama, S Kawabata, T Kato, Y Tanaka - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2007 - APS
We study macroscopic quantum tunneling (MQT) in c-axis twist Josephson junctions made
of high-T c superconductors in order to clarify the influence of the anisotropic order …

Quantum dissociation of a vortex-antivortex pair in a long Josephson junction

MV Fistul, A Wallraff, Y Koval, A Lukashenko… - Physical review …, 2003 - APS
The thermal and the quantum dissociation of a single vortex-antivortex (VAV) pair in an
annular Josephson junction is experimentally observed and theoretically analyzed. In our …

Tunneling and resonant tunneling of fluxons in a long Josephson junction

A Shnirman, E Ben-Jacob, B Malomed - Physical Review B, 1997 - APS
We study fluxon tunneling both across one microshort-type barrier and resonant tunneling
across two barriers. We have derived an effective Hamiltonian (using the inverse scattering …