Josephson Thermal Memory

Guarcello, Claudio; Solinas, Paolo; Braggio, Alessandro; Di Ventra, Massimiliano; Giazotto, Francesco

doi:10.1103/physrevapplied.9.014021

Title: Josephson Thermal Memory

Journal Article · Thu Jan 18 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Physical Review Applied

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.9.014021· OSTI ID:1540699

Guarcello, Claudio ^[1]; Solinas, Paolo ^[2]; Braggio, Alessandro ^[3]; Di Ventra, Massimiliano ^[4]; Giazotto, Francesco ^[3]

Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS), Pisa (Italy). Inst. Nanoscienze-CNR, NEST; Lobachevsky State Univ., Nizhni Novgorod (Russia)
SPIN-CNR, Genova (Italy)
Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS), Pisa (Italy). Inst. Nanoscienze-CNR, NEST
Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States)

In this work, we propose a superconducting thermal memory device that exploits the thermal hysteresis in a flux-controlled temperature-biased superconducting quantum-interference device (SQUID). This system reveals a flux-controllable temperature bistability, which can be used to define two well-distinguishable thermal logic states. We discuss a suitable writing-reading procedure for these memory states. The time of the memory writing operation is expected to be on the order of approximately 0.2 ns for a Nb-based SQUID in thermal contact with a phonon bath at 4.2 K. We suggest a noninvasive readout scheme for the memory states based on the measurement of the effective resonance frequency of a tank circuit inductively coupled to the SQUID. The proposed device paves the way for a practical implementation of thermal logic and computation. The advantage of this proposal is that it represents also an example of harvesting thermal energy in superconducting circuits.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); European Research Council (ERC); REA; MIUR

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-05ER46204; FP7/2007-2013; 630925; RBFR1379UX; RBFR1236VV

OSTI ID:: 1540699

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1417427

Journal Information:: Physical Review Applied, Vol. 9, Issue 1; ISSN 2331-7019

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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