TY  - JOUR
PB  - SciPost Foundation
DO  - 10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.8.4.065
TI  - Dissipation and noise in strongly driven Josephson junctions
PY  - 2025/10/06
UR  - https://www.scipost.org/SciPostPhysCore.8.4.065
JF  - SciPost Physics Core
JA  - SciPost Phys. Core
VL  - 8
IS  - 4
SP  - 065
A1  - Vadimov, Vasilii
AU  - Sunada, Yoshiki
AU  - Möttönen, Mikko
AB  - In circuit quantum electrodynamical systems, the quasiparticle-related losses in Josephson junctions are suppressed due to the gap in the superconducting density of states which is much higher than the typical energy of a microwave photon. In this work, we show that a strong drive even at a frequency lower than twice the superconductor gap parameter can activate dissipation in the junctions due to photon-assisted breaking of the Cooper pairs. Both the decay rate and noise strength associated with the losses are sensitive to the dc phase bias of the junction and can be tuned in a broad range by the amplitude and the frequency of the external driving field, making the suggested mechanism potentially attractive for designing tunable dissipative elements. We also predict pronounced memory effects in the driven Josephson junctions, which are appealing for both theoretical and experimental studies of non-Markovian physics in superconducting quantum circuits. We illustrate our theoretical findings by studying the spectral properties and the steady-state population of a low-impedance resonator coupled to the driven Josephson junction: we show the emergence of non-Lorentzian spectral lines and broad tunability of effective temperature of the steady state.
ER  -

@Article{10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.8.4.065,
	title={{Dissipation and noise in strongly driven Josephson junctions}},
	author={Vasilii Vadimov and Yoshiki Sunada and Mikko Möttönen},
	journal={SciPost Phys. Core},
	volume={8},
	pages={065},
	year={2025},
	publisher={SciPost},
	doi={10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.8.4.065},
	url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.8.4.065},
}