Fundamentals and Frontiers of the Josephson Effect (Springer Series in Materials Science Book 286)

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the Josephson effect, a topic of never-ending interest in both fundamental and applied physics. In this volume, world-renowned experts present the unique aspects of the physics of the Josephson effect, resulting from the use of new materials, of hybrid architectures and from the possibility of realizing nanoscale junctions. These new experimental capabilities lead to systems where novel coherent phenomena and transport processes emerge. Recent examples include, for instance, the use of Josephson junctions for the detection of Majorana fermions and for superconducting qubits. All this is of great relevance and impact, especially when combined with the didactic approach of the book. The reader will benefit from a general and modern view of coherent phenomena in weakly-coupled superconductors on a macroscopic scale. Topics that have been only recently discussed in specialized papers and in short reviews are described here for the first time and organized in a general framework. An important section of the book is also devoted to applications, with focus on long-term, future applications. In addition to a significant number of illustrations, the book includes numerous tables for comparative studies on technical aspects. . Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxviii Introductory Notes on the Josephson Effect: Main Concepts and Phenomenology (Francesco Tafuri)....Pages 1-61 Josephson Devices as Tests of Quantum Mechanics Towards the Everyday Level (Anthony J. Leggett)....Pages 63-80 Basic Properties of the Josephson Effect (S. V. Bakurskiy, A. A. Golubov, M. Yu. Kupriyanov)....Pages 81-116 Charge Transport in Unconventional Superconductor Junctions (Yasuhiro Asano, Yukio Tanaka)....Pages 117-145 Mesoscopic Features in Nanoscale Superconducting Devices (Arturo Tagliacozzo, Alfredo Levy Yeyati)....Pages 147-207 Magnetic Field Effects in Josephson Junctions (John R. Kirtley)....Pages 209-233 Current–Voltage Characteristics (Davide Massarotti, Francesco Tafuri)....Pages 235-274 High Critical Temperature Superconductor Josephson Junctions and Other Exotic Structures (Daniela Stornaiuolo, Francesco Tafuri)....Pages 275-337 Pairing Symmetry Effects (John R. Kirtley)....Pages 339-366 Intrinsic Josephson Junctions in High Temperature Superconductors (Reinhold Kleiner, Huabing Wang)....Pages 367-454 Phase Dynamics and Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling (Davide Massarotti, Francesco Tafuri)....Pages 455-512 High Frequency Properties of Josephson Junctions (Thilo Bauch, Edoardo Trabaldo, Floriana Lombardi)....Pages 513-528 Josephson Effect in Graphene and 3D Topological Insulators (Dmitry Golubev, Thilo Bauch, Floriana Lombardi)....Pages 529-553 Physics and Applications of NanoSQUIDs (John Gallop, Ling Hao)....Pages 555-585 Josephson Junctions for Metrology Applications (Samuel P. Benz)....Pages 587-609 Josephson Junctions for Digital Applications (Oleg Mukhanov, Nobuyuki Yoshikawa, Ivan P. Nevirkovets, Mutsuo Hidaka)....Pages 611-701 Quantum Bits with Josephson Junctions (Anton Frisk Kockum, Franco Nori)....Pages 703-741 Quantum Superconducting Networks: From Josephson to QED Arrays (Rosario Fazio)....Pages 743-764 Josephson Effects in Superfluid Helium (Y. Sato, E. Hoskinson, R. E. Packard)....Pages 765-810 Weak Link for Ultracold Bosonic Gases (Tilman Zibold, Markus K. Oberthaler)....Pages 811-847 Back Matter ....Pages 849-859