Quantum escape of the phase in a strongly driven Josephson junction

Details Quantum escape of the phase in a strongly driven Josephson junction Quantum escape of the phase in a strongly driven Josephson junction

2003-07-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0307668v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

4 pages, 3 figures, to be published in Physical Review B (Rapid Communication)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.68.060504

A quantum mechanical analysis of the Josephson phase escape in the presence of both dc and ac bias currents is presented. We find that the potential barrier for the escape of the phase is effectively suppressed as the resonant condition occurs, i.e. when the frequency $\omega$ of the ac bias matches the Josephson junction energy level separation. This effect manifests itself by a pronounced drop in the dependence of the switching current $I_s$ on the power $W$ of the applied microwave radiation and by a peculiar double-peak structure in the switching current distribution $P(I_s)$. The developed theory is in a good accord with an experiment which we also report in this paper. The obtained features can be used to characterize certain aspects of the quantum-mechanical behavior of the Josephson phase, such as the energy level quantization, the Rabi frequency of coherent oscillations and the effect of damping.

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