Theory of two-dimensional macroscopic quantum tunneling in YBa2Cu3O7-delta Josephson junctions coupled to an LC circuit
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2009

We investigate classical thermal activation (TA) and macroscopic quantum tunneling (MQT) for a YBa2Cu3O7−δ (YBCO) Josephson junction coupled to an LC circuit theoretically. Due to the coupling between the junction and the LC circuit, the macroscopic phase dynamics can be described as the escape process of a fictitious particle with an anisotropic mass moving in a two-dimensional potential. We analytically calculate the escape rate including both the TA and MQT regime by taking into account the peculiar dynamical nature of the system. In addtion to large suppression of the MQT rate at zero temperature, we study details of the temperature dependence of the escape rate across a crossover region. These results are in an excellent agreement with recent experimental data for the MQT and TA rate in a YBCO biepitaxial Josephson junction. Therefore the coupling to the LC circuit is essential in understanding the macroscopic quantum dynamics and the qubit operation based on the YBCO biepitaxial Josephson junctions.

macroscopic quantum tunneling

Josephson junctions

superconductivity

Författare

Shiro Kawabata

Thilo Bauch

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Kvantkomponentfysik

Takeo Kato

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

24699950 (ISSN) 24699969 (eISSN)

Vol. 80 17 174513-

Ämneskategorier

Den kondenserade materiens fysik

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevB.80.174513

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2017-10-07