介观 Josephson 结与激发偶奇相干态的相互作用

本文研究介观 Josephson 结与激发偶奇相干态的相互作用。研究了存在非经典光场时介观 Josephson 结中超导电流的一些特性，诸如崩塌与复苏现象，流压台阶特性，直流分量涨落以及超导电流的量子相干等。结果显示，超导电流的涨落及期望值可呈现直流分量。结果还显示稳态超导电流量，超导电流涨落的直流分量以及超导电流直流分量的关联函数等皆与光场的相位有关。     

Supercurrent switch in graphene pi junctions

We study the supercurrent in a superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor graphene junction. In contrast to its metallic counterpart, the oscillating critical current in our setup decays only weakly upon increasing the exchange field and junction width. We find an unusually large residual value of the supercurrent at the oscillatory cusps due to a strong deviation from a sinusoidal current-phase relationship. Our findings suggest a very efficient device for dissipationless supercurrent switching.     

Persistent supercurrent atom chip

Rubidium-87 atoms are trapped in an Ioffe-Pritchard potential generated with a persistent supercurrent that flows in a loop circuit patterned on a sapphire surface. The superconducting circuit is a closed loop made of a 100 microm wide molecular-beam epitaxy-grown MgB2 stripe carrying a supercurrent of 2.5 A. To control the supercurrent in the stripe, an on-chip thermal switch operated by a focused argon-ion laser is developed. The switch operates as an on/off switch of the supercurrent or as a device to set the current to a specific value with the aid of an external magnetic field. The current can be set even without an external source if the change is in the decreasing direction.     

Density of states in a superconductor carrying a supercurrent

We have measured the tunneling density of states (DOS) in a superconductor carrying a supercurrent or exposed to an external magnetic field. The pair correlations are weakened by the supercurrent, leading to a modification of the DOS and to a reduction of the gap. As predicted by the theory of superconductivity in diffusive metals, we find that this effect is similar to that of an external magnetic field.     

Microwave-enhanced critical currents in superconducting microbridges explained by the electric-field induced quasiparticle-pair inequilibrium

A supercurrent through a superconducting microbridge gives rise to a minimum in the density of Cooper pairs in the middle of the bridge. Application of a microwave electric field creates a non-equilibrium situation and therefore smears the Cooper pair distribution. This allows for a higher critical current and explains the microwave-enhanced supercurrent observed in thin-film microbridges.     

双模非经典光场辐照下介观约瑟夫森结中超流的动力学行为

研究了直流偏置电压下介观约瑟夫森结在SU（1，1）双模相干态光场作用下超流的动力学行为、流压台阶和直流分量等特性．研究发现超流能够呈现明显的崩塌与复苏现象，对于经典电磁场和非耦合的双模相干态光场作用下的情况，超流不出现此现象，且其流压台阶结构与后两种情况也不相同． 关键词：     

Relative phase based manipulation of quantum entanglement and measurement of supercurrent

We investigate the quantum entanglement and supercurrent of coupling superconducting qubits in circuit QED system. We compare the effect of the relative phase of the coupling qubits on the concurrence and supercurrent when the microwave field is initially in coherent state, even coherent state and odd coherent state. The results show that entanglement death can be avoided via manipulating the relative phase only in the coherent state since the improvement for entanglement death is unsatisfactory in the even coherent state and odd coherent state.     

On the reversibility of the Meissner effect and the angular momentum puzzle

It is generally believed that the laws of thermodynamics govern superconductivity as an equilibrium state of matter, and hence that the normal-superconductor transition in a magnetic field is reversible under ideal conditions. Because eddy currents are generated during the transition as the magnetic flux changes, the transition has to proceed infinitely slowly to generate no entropy. Experiments showed that to a high degree of accuracy no entropy was generated in these transitions. However, in this paper we point out that for the length of times over which these experiments extended, a much higher degree of irreversibility due to decay of eddy currents should have been detected than was actually observed. We also point out that within the conventional theory of superconductivity no explanation exists for why no Joule heat is generated in the superconductor to normal transition when the supercurrent stops. In addition we point out that within the conventional theory of superconductivity no mechanism exists for the transfer of momentum between the supercurrent and the body as a whole, which is necessary to ensure that the transition in the presence of a magnetic field respects momentum conservation. We propose a solution to all these questions based on the alternative theory of hole superconductivity. The theory proposes that in the normal-superconductor transition there is a flow and backflow of charge in direction perpendicular to the phase boundary when the phase boundary moves. We show that this flow and backflow explains the absence of Joule heat generated by Faraday eddy currents, the absence of Joule heat generated in the process of the supercurrent stopping, and the reversible transfer of momentum between the supercurrent and the body, provided the current carriers in the normal state are holes.     

超导弱连接中的Josephson电流在一个磁通量子内的振荡(Ⅰ)——Josephson结

本文指出如果Josephson结处在Q值足够高的谐振腔内,当Josephson频率ω=(2eV₀)/h与谐振腔的本征频率ω_r发生谐振时,谐振的电磁场对Josephson结自身的反馈作用将导致超流电流在一个磁通量子内随磁场的小周期振荡。 关键词：     

Ferromagnetic 0-pi junctions as classical spins

The ground state of highly damped PdNi based 0-pi ferromagnetic Josephson junctions shows a spontaneous half quantum vortex, sustained by a supercurrent of undetermined sign. This supercurrent flows in the electrode of a Josephson junction used as a detector and produces a phi(0)/4 shift in its magnetic diffraction pattern. We have measured the statistics of the positive or the negative sign shift occurring at the superconducting transition of such a junction. The randomness of the shift sign, the reproducibility of its magnitude, and the possibility of achieving exact flux compensation upon field cooling are the features which show that 0-pi junctions behave as classical spins, just as magnetic nanoparticles with uniaxial anisotropy.     

Controllable 0-pi transition in a superconducting graphene-nanoribbon junction

The supercurrent in a Josephson junction composed of the zigzag edged graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) lying between two superconducting leads [superconductor-graphene-superconductor (SGS) junction] has been studied by the Green's function method. It is found that a small transverse electric field applied on the ZGNR can reverse the supercurrent direction, leading to a so-called 0-pi phase transition. The 0-pi phase transition can happen periodically with a change in the ZGNR's length, and, more importantly, can be easily and electrically controllable by a gate voltage, which is absent in the conventional superconducting pi junction and would make the SGS junction very promising for future application in superconducting electronics, as well as quauntum information and computation.     

Tunable supercurrent through a double Aharonov–Bohm interferometer

The supercurrent through a double Aharonov–Bohm interferometer formed by parallel-coupled four quantum dots is investigated theoretically. The possibility of controlling the supercurrent of the system is explored by tuning the interdot coupling, dot energy levels, and magnetic flux treading the ring connecting dots and leads. Whether the supercurrent sign can be changed depends not only on the magnetic flux but also on the quantum dot energy levels. By tuning the quantum dot energy levels, the behavior of the supercurrent shows swap effects, which might be used to design a qubit. It is also found that the oscillation period of the supercurrent with respect to the magnetic flux depends on the ratio of the two parts fluxes.     

Tunable supercurrent in a parallel double quantum dot system

The supercurrent through an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer containing two parallel quantum dots connected with two superconductor leads is investigated theoretically. The possibility of controlling the supercurrent is explored by tuning the quantum dot energy levels and the total magnetic flux. By tuning the energy levels, both quantum dots can be in the on-resonance or off-resonance states, and thus the optimal modulation of the supercurrent can be achieved. The supercurrent sign does not change by simply varying the quantum dot energy levels. However, by tuning the magnetic flux, the supercurrent can oscillate from positive to negative, which results in the π-junction transition.     

Tunable supercurrent in a triangular triple quantum dot system

The supercurrent in a triangular triple quantum dot system is investigated by using the nonequilibrium Green's function method. It is found that the sign of the supercurrent can be changed from positive to negative with increasing the strength of spin-flip scattering, resulting in the π-junction transition. The supercurrent and the π-junction transition are also modulated by tuning the system parameters such as the gate voltage and the interdot coupling. The tunable π-junction transition is explained in terms of the current carrying density of states. These results provide the ways of manipulating the supercurrent in a triple quantum dot system.     

Supercurrent in atomic point contacts and andreev states

We have measured the supercurrent in aluminum atomic point contacts containing a small number of well characterized conduction channels. For most contacts, the measured supercurrent is adequately described by the opposite contributions of two thermally populated Andreev bound states per conduction channel. However, for contacts containing an almost perfectly transmitted channel 0.9相似文献   

Influence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling on Josephson effect in triplet superconductor/two-dimensional semiconductor/triplet superconductor junctions

We study theoretically Josephson effect in a planar ballistic junction between two triplet superconductors with p-wave orbital symmetries and separated by a two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor channel with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling. In triplet superconductors, three types of orbital symmetries are considered. We use Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism to describe quasiparticle propagations through the junction and the supercurrents are calculated in terms of Andreev reflection coefficients. The features of the variation of the supercurrents with the change of the strength of Rashba spin-orbit coupling are investigated in some detail. It is found that for the three types of orbital symmetries considered, both the magnitudes of supercurrent and the current-phase relations can be manipulated effectively by tuning the strength of Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The interplay of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman magnetic field on supercurrent is also investigated in some detail.     

Supercurrent-induced temperature gradient across a nonequilibrium SNS Josephson junction

Using tunneling spectroscopy, we have measured the local electron energy distribution function in the normal part of a superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) Josephson junction containing an extra lead to a normal reservoir. In the presence of simultaneous supercurrent and injected quasiparticle current, the distribution function exhibits a sharp feature at very low energy. The feature is odd in energy and odd under reversal of either the supercurrent or the quasiparticle current direction. The feature represents an effective temperature gradient across the SNS Josephson junction that is controllable by the supercurrent.     

Anomalous Josephson current in junctions with spin polarizing quantum point contacts

We consider a ballistic Josephson junction with a quantum point contact in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The point contact acts as a spin filter when embedded in a circuit with normal electrodes. We show that with an in-plane external magnetic field an anomalous supercurrent appears even for zero phase difference between the superconducting electrodes. In addition, the external field induces large critical current asymmetries between the two flow directions, leading to supercurrent rectifying effects.     

Mesoscopic Josephson junctions in the presence of two-mode quantized electromagnetic field

Dynamic behavior of a mesoscopic Josephson junction in the presence of a two-mode quantized electromagnetic field is investigated. It is shown that the currentvoltage- step structures depend apparently on the two basic frequencies of the two-mode field. The voltage jumps are generally not equidistant. It is also shown that for the correlated two-mode squeezed state the time evolution of the supercurrent exhibits quantum collapse and revival(CR) phenomenon, while for the noncorrelated two-mode coherent state the phenomenon does not occur.     

Magnetization of type-II superconductors in the form of short cylinders and the screening supercurrent distribution in the Bean model

The simplest analytical form of the screening supercurrent distribution is found, and the magnetization of type-II (hard) superconductors in the form of finite-length cylinders and disks (pellets) is calculated. Calculations are carried out in terms of the Bean model taking into account the curvature of magnetic field lines. From this distribution, the total magnetic field intensity and the magnetization hysteresis loop are calculated for such samples in different cases.