Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States.
School of Sciences and Humanities, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.
Nano Lett. 2021 Nov 24;21(22):9668-9674. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03474. Epub 2021 Nov 15.
When a Josephson junction is exposed to microwave radiation, it undergoes the inverse AC Josephson effect─the phase of the junction locks to the drive frequency. As a result, the - curves of the junction acquire "Shapiro steps" of quantized voltage. If the junction has three or more superconducting contacts, coupling between different pairs of terminals must be taken into account and the state of the junction evolves in a phase space of higher dimensionality. Here, we study the multiterminal inverse AC Josephson effect in a graphene sample with three superconducting terminals. We observe robust fractional Shapiro steps and correlated switching events, which can only be explained by considering the device as a completely connected Josephson network. We successfully simulate the observed behaviors using a modified two-dimensional RCSJ model. Our results suggest that multiterminal Josephson junctions are a playground to study highly connected nonlinear networks with novel topologies.
当约瑟夫森结暴露于微波辐射下时,它会经历逆交流约瑟夫森效应——结的相位锁定到驱动频率。结果,结的 V-曲线会获得量化电压的“Shapiro 台阶”。如果结有三个或更多超导接触,则必须考虑不同端子对之间的耦合,并且结的状态会在更高维数的相空间中演变。在这里,我们研究了具有三个超导端子的石墨烯样品中的多端子逆交流约瑟夫森效应。我们观察到了稳定的分数 Shapiro 台阶和相关的切换事件,这些现象只能通过将器件视为完全连接的约瑟夫森网络来解释。我们使用改进的二维 RCSJ 模型成功地模拟了观察到的行为。我们的结果表明,多端子约瑟夫森结是研究具有新颖拓扑结构的高度连接非线性网络的理想平台。