Pashin Dmitrii, Satanin Arkady M, Kim Chang Sub
Department of Theoretical Physics, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod 603091, Russia.
Department of Physics, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Korea.
Phys Rev E. 2019 Jun;99(6-1):062223. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.99.062223.
We theoretically study the phase dynamics in Josephson junctions, which maps onto the oscillatory motion of a pointlike particle in the washboard potential. Under appropriate driving and damping conditions, the Josephson phase undergoes intriguing bistable dynamics near a saddle point in the quasienergy landscape. The bifurcation mechanism plays a critical role in superconducting quantum circuits with relevance to nondemolition measurements such as high-fidelity readout of qubit states. We address the question "what is the probability of capture into either basin of attraction?" and answer it concerning both classical and quantum dynamics. Consequently, we derive the Arnold probability and numerically analyze its implementation of the controlled dynamical switching between two steady states under the various nonequilibrium conditions.
