IBM Research Europe-Zurich, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland.
Solid State Physics Laboratory, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
Phys Rev Lett. 2023 Feb 24;130(8):087002. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.087002.
We experimentally investigate the stochastic phase dynamics of planar Josephson junctions (JJs) and superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) defined in epitaxial InAs/Al heterostructures, and characterized by a large ratio of Josephson energy to charging energy. We observe a crossover from a regime of macroscopic quantum tunneling to one of phase diffusion as a function of temperature, where the transition temperature T^{} is gate-tunable. The switching probability distributions are shown to be consistent with a small shunt capacitance and moderate damping, resulting in a switching current which is a small fraction of the critical current. Phase locking between two JJs leads to a difference in switching current between that of a JJ measured in isolation and that of the same JJ measured in an asymmetric SQUID loop. In the case of the loop, T^{} is also tuned by a magnetic flux.
我们实验研究了外延 InAs/Al 异质结构中定义的平面约瑟夫森结 (JJ) 和超导量子干涉器件 (SQUID) 的随机相位动力学,并具有较大的约瑟夫森能量与充电能量比。我们观察到随着温度的变化,从宏观量子隧穿到相位扩散的转变,其中转变温度 T是可通过栅极调节的。开关概率分布与小的并联电容和中等阻尼一致,导致开关电流是临界电流的一小部分。两个 JJ 之间的相位锁定导致隔离测量的 JJ 的开关电流与非对称 SQUID 环中测量的相同 JJ 的开关电流之间存在差异。在环的情况下,T也可以通过磁通调节。