Virtanen Pauli, Heikkilä Tero T
Department of Physics and Nanoscience Center, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35 (YFL), FI-40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Phys Rev Lett. 2024 Jan 26;132(4):046002. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.046002.
We consider the finite-frequency response of multiterminal Josephson junctions and show how nonreciprocity in them can show up at linear response, in contrast to the static Josephson diodes featuring nonlinear nonreciprocity. At finite frequencies, the response contains dynamic contributions to the Josephson admittance, featuring the effects of Andreev bound state transitions along with Berry phase effects, and reflecting the breaking of the same symmetries as in Josephson diodes. We show that outside exact Andreev resonances, the junctions feature nonreciprocal reactive response. As a result, the microwave transmission through those systems is nondissipative, and the electromagnetic scattering can approach complete nonreciprocity. Besides providing information about the nature of the weak link energy levels, the nonreciprocity can be utilized to create nondissipative and small-scale on-chip circulators whose operation requires only rather small magnetic fields.
我们考虑了多端约瑟夫森结的有限频率响应,并展示了其中的非互易性如何在线性响应中显现出来,这与具有非线性非互易性的静态约瑟夫森二极管形成对比。在有限频率下,响应包含对约瑟夫森导纳的动态贡献,其特征是安德列夫束缚态跃迁的影响以及贝里相位效应,并且反映了与约瑟夫森二极管相同对称性的破缺。我们表明,在精确的安德列夫共振之外,这些结具有非互易的电抗响应。因此,通过这些系统的微波传输是无耗散的,并且电磁散射可以接近完全非互易性。除了提供有关弱链接能级性质的信息外,这种非互易性还可用于制造无耗散且小规模的片上循环器,其运行仅需要相当小的磁场。