The Josephson currents in s-wave superconductor/ferromagnet insulator/p-wave superconductor（s/FI/p） junctions are calculated as a function of temperature and the phase taking into account the roughness scattering ef...The Josephson currents in s-wave superconductor/ferromagnet insulator/p-wave superconductor（s/FI/p） junctions are calculated as a function of temperature and the phase taking into account the roughness scattering effect at interface. The phase dependence of the Josephson current I （φ） between s-wave and px-wave superconductor is predicted to be sin（2φ）. The ferromagnet scattering effect, the barrier strength, and the roughness strength at interface suppress the dc currents in s/FI/p junction.展开更多
We investigate the possibility of observing in integrated solid-state systems the dynamical Casimir effect,in which photons are created out of vacuum.We use a transmission line resonator on a superconducting chip as t...We investigate the possibility of observing in integrated solid-state systems the dynamical Casimir effect,in which photons are created out of vacuum.We use a transmission line resonator on a superconducting chip as the microwave cavity and modulate its properties by coupling it to carefully designed Josephson devices.We evaluate the effect of main decoherence sources and show that our design offers a promising system for experimentally demonstrating the dynamical Casimir effect.Moreover,we also study the squeezing properties of the created photon field and how they depend on the dissipation.展开更多
基金The project supported by the Natural Science Foundation of the Education Commission 0f Jiangsu Province of China under Grant No. 06KJB140009
文摘The Josephson currents in s-wave superconductor/ferromagnet insulator/p-wave superconductor（s/FI/p） junctions are calculated as a function of temperature and the phase taking into account the roughness scattering effect at interface. The phase dependence of the Josephson current I （φ） between s-wave and px-wave superconductor is predicted to be sin（2φ）. The ferromagnet scattering effect, the barrier strength, and the roughness strength at interface suppress the dc currents in s/FI/p junction.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11174270)the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant Nos.2011CB921204 and 2011CBA00200)+1 种基金the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB01000000)ZHOU Zheng Wei gratefully acknowledges the support of theK.C.Wong Education Foundation,Hong Kong
文摘We investigate the possibility of observing in integrated solid-state systems the dynamical Casimir effect,in which photons are created out of vacuum.We use a transmission line resonator on a superconducting chip as the microwave cavity and modulate its properties by coupling it to carefully designed Josephson devices.We evaluate the effect of main decoherence sources and show that our design offers a promising system for experimentally demonstrating the dynamical Casimir effect.Moreover,we also study the squeezing properties of the created photon field and how they depend on the dissipation.
