Fundamentals and Frontiers of the Josephson Effect

1. Front Matter

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2. Introductory Notes on the Josephson Effect: Main Concepts and Phenomenology

   • Francesco Tafuri

   Pages 1-61

3. Josephson Devices as Tests of Quantum Mechanics Towards the Everyday Level

   • Anthony J. Leggett

   Pages 63-80

4. Basic Properties of the Josephson Effect

   • S. V. Bakurskiy, A. A. Golubov, M. Yu. Kupriyanov

   Pages 81-116

5. Charge Transport in Unconventional Superconductor Junctions

   • Yasuhiro Asano, Yukio Tanaka

   Pages 117-145

6. Mesoscopic Features in Nanoscale Superconducting Devices

   • Arturo Tagliacozzo, Alfredo Levy Yeyati

   Pages 147-207

7. Magnetic Field Effects in Josephson Junctions

   • John R. Kirtley

   Pages 209-233

8. Current–Voltage Characteristics

   • Davide Massarotti, Francesco Tafuri

   Pages 235-274

9. High Critical Temperature Superconductor Josephson Junctions and Other Exotic Structures

   • Daniela Stornaiuolo, Francesco Tafuri

   Pages 275-337

10. Pairing Symmetry Effects

    • John R. Kirtley

    Pages 339-366

11. Intrinsic Josephson Junctions in High Temperature Superconductors

    • Reinhold Kleiner, Huabing Wang

    Pages 367-454

12. Phase Dynamics and Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling

    • Davide Massarotti, Francesco Tafuri

    Pages 455-512

13. High Frequency Properties of Josephson Junctions

    • Thilo Bauch, Edoardo Trabaldo, Floriana Lombardi

    Pages 513-528

14. Josephson Effect in Graphene and 3D Topological Insulators

    • Dmitry Golubev, Thilo Bauch, Floriana Lombardi

    Pages 529-553

15. Physics and Applications of NanoSQUIDs

    • John Gallop, Ling Hao

    Pages 555-585

16. Josephson Junctions for Metrology Applications

    • Samuel P. Benz

    Pages 587-609

17. Josephson Junctions for Digital Applications

    • Oleg Mukhanov, Nobuyuki Yoshikawa, Ivan P. Nevirkovets, Mutsuo Hidaka

    Pages 611-701

18. Quantum Bits with Josephson Junctions

    • Anton Frisk Kockum, Franco Nori

    Pages 703-741Open Access

19. Quantum Superconducting Networks: From Josephson to QED Arrays

    • Rosario Fazio

    Pages 743-764

20. Josephson Effects in Superfluid Helium

    • Y. Sato, E. Hoskinson, R. E. Packard

    Pages 765-810

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the Josephson effect, a topic of never-ending interest in both fundamental and applied physics.  In this volume, world-renowned experts present the unique aspects of the physics of the Josephson effect, resulting from the use of new materials, of hybrid architectures and from the possibility of realizing nanoscale junctions. These new experimental capabilities lead to systems where novel coherent phenomena and transport processes emerge. All this is of great relevance and impact, especially when combined with the didactic approach of the book. The reader will benefit from a general and modern view of coherent phenomena in weakly-coupled superconductors on a macroscopic scale.  Topics that have been only recently discussed in specialized papers and in short reviews are described here for the first time and organized in a generalframework. An important section of the book is also devoted to applications, with focus on long-term, future applications. In addition to a significant number of illustrations, the book includes numerous tables for comparative studies on technical aspects. 

• Andreev Spectra
• Hybrid Josephson Junctions
• Josephson Current
• Josephson Effect
• Josephson Effect Reference
• Josephson Junctions for Metrology
• Majorana Fermions
• Nanosquids
• SQUIDs
• Supercoducting Junctions
• Superconducting Qubits
• Weak Links Nad Tunnel Junctions

• Dipartimento di Fisica “E.Pancini”, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

  Francesco Tafuri

Francesco Tafuri is Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Napoli Federico II. He earned his PhD from the University of Napoli, with further work at the Lawrence Berkeley  Laboratory,  the New York State University at Stony Brook, and as a Fulbright Fellow at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. His scientific interests fall in the field of superconductivity with a focus on the Josephson effect, on macroscopic quantum phenomena and on high critical temperature superconductivity, with many contributions to the study of quantum properties of Josephson hybrid junctions with unconventional barriers/superconducting electrodes and of mesoscopic and nanoscale superconducting  systems. He has co-authored about 130 articles in peer reviewed journals on the Josephson effect and related phenomena.

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