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Macroscopic quantum electrodynamic effects in a superconducting ring containing a Josephson weak link
The problem of coherent flux tunnelling across a Josephson weak link enclosed by a thick superconducting (‘SQUID‘) ring in terms of quantum electrodynamics is considered. We show that for a low effective noise...
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Josephson torques on rotational superfluid-helium flows
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Schwinger renormalization group equations of state in circuits with classical electrodynamic noise
We discuss the effective noise temperatureT * of a low-temperature circuit in terms of the Schwinger action principle formulation of the quantum Brownian-motion problem, and in the limit ω≪k B T */h. Within this ...
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The Josephson pendulum as a nonlinear capacitor
In the quantum electrodynamic circuit theory of weak link constrictions, the singly connected weak link exhibits energy bands in charge space. Here, it is shown that charge space energy bands arise also in the...
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Theoretical polarizability of small ferro-electric crystal domains exibiting quantum tunnelling
The implications of macroscopic quantum tunnelling in small single-domain ferro-electric crystals is discussed in terms of the resulting static differential polarizability.
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Electromagnetic duality in quantum circuits
To illustrate the duality between electric and magnetic views of quantum circuits, we compare and contrast the origins of the Josephson frequency and the current bias frequency in each case.
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Weak-link behavior in the small-charge tunneling limit
The coherent behavior of a weak link in the limit where the stored electric energy dominates the charge tunneling energy is discussed. Particular attention is paid to the realization of the source term in the ...
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Coupled quantum object dynamics
We discuss the dynamical behaviour of coupled quantum objects. This leads to a novel method of observing macroscopic quantum behaviour.
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Coherent quantum oscillation trajectories
We discuss coherent oscillations in the quantum potential view of quantum mechanics, giving examples for both a superposition of “position” states, and a superposition of “momentum” states.
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The response of a superconducting weak-link ring to external adiabatic noise
We discuss the response of a superconducting weak-link ring to externally applied adiabatic noise and show that this can be used as a probe of the low-lying energy eigenstates of the ring. We compare the obser...
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Adding dissipation to the Schrödinger equation from the quantum-potential viewpoint
We discuss methods of adding dissipation to the Schrödinger equation in light of the quantum-potential interpretation of quantum mechanics. This favors nonlinear equations in general and Kostin's Schrödinger-L...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Flux Mode and Charge Mode Regimes in Superconducting Weak Link Circuits
In a series of papers [1–4] we have discussed the quantum mechanical description of superconducting weak link circuits in terms of the (integrated) electromagnetic field variables φ, the magnetic flux and Q, t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Tunnel Current Modifications due to Finite Tunneling Times
We examine the effects of a finite tunnelling time (independent of its exact definition) on tunnel currents through insulating barriers. In particular we show how the Josephson tunnelling between superconducto...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Introducing Dissipation in the Schrödinger Picture
We discuss various methods of introducing dissipation to the Schrodinger picture, in the light of the de Broglie-Bohm quantum potential viewpoint. This favours non-linear equations, and Kostin’s Schrödinger-La...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Analysis of Non-Linear Behaviour in the Radio Frequency SQUID Magnetometer
Using a model rf-SQUID magnetometer; taken to be a linear classical circuit coupled reactively to a macroscopic quantum circuit, in the adiabatic limit, we investigate the effect of quantum mechanical transiti...
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Chapter
Macroscopic Quantum Objects and their Interaction with External Environments
To gain some appreciation of why any quantum phenomena on the macroscopic scale should be regarded as potentially important to developments in quantum mechanics we have to look back to the origins of the subje...
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Comments on small capacitors
We discuss the concept of an ultrasmall capacitor and the experimental probing of such objects.
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Microscopic views of simple macroscopic quantum behaviour
For simple-model microscopic systems, we discuss whether (or not) potentially observable macroscopic quantum behaviour can arise, making explicit two criteria which must be satisfied for this to be possible. W...
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Chapter
Observation of Quantum Jumps in Squid Rings
In this paper we describe an experimental technique which we have used to probe the low lying energy levels of a quantum mechanical SQUID ring and to observe transitions between these levels.
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On weak links fed with irreversible currents
We briefly discuss the usual time-reversible descriptions for displacement- and real-current-fed small-capacitance weak links. Many real laboratory current sources deliver charge in an intrinsically irreversib...
