Microwave Spectroscopy of a Weakly Pinned Charge Density Wave in a Superinductor
Abstract
A chain of small Josephson junctions (a.k.a. superinductor) emerged recently as a high-inductance, low-loss element of superconducting quantum devices. We notice that the intrinsic parameters of a typical superinductor in fact place it into the Bose glass universality class for which the propagation of waves in a sufficiently long chain is hindered by pinning. Its weakness provides for a broad crossover from the spectrum of well-resolved plasmon standing waves at high frequencies to the low-frequency excitation spectrum of a pinned charge density wave. We relate the scattering amplitude of microwave photons reflected off a superinductor to the dynamics of a Bose glass. The dynamics at long and short scales compared to the Larkin pinning length determines the low- and high-frequency asymptotes of the reflection amplitude.
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes (France)
- Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); ARO; MarieSk lodowska-Curie Grant; ANR
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1609977
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1526097
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-08ER46482; W911NF-18-1-0212; 600382; ANR-16-CE30-0019
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 122; Journal Issue: 23; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; physics; charge density waves; phase slips; Josephson junctions; microwave techniques
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Houzet, Manuel, and Glazman, Leonid I. Microwave Spectroscopy of a Weakly Pinned Charge Density Wave in a Superinductor. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.122.237701.
Houzet, Manuel, & Glazman, Leonid I. Microwave Spectroscopy of a Weakly Pinned Charge Density Wave in a Superinductor. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.237701
Houzet, Manuel, and Glazman, Leonid I. Thu .
"Microwave Spectroscopy of a Weakly Pinned Charge Density Wave in a Superinductor". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.237701. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1609977.
@article{osti_1609977,
title = {Microwave Spectroscopy of a Weakly Pinned Charge Density Wave in a Superinductor},
author = {Houzet, Manuel and Glazman, Leonid I.},
abstractNote = {A chain of small Josephson junctions (a.k.a. superinductor) emerged recently as a high-inductance, low-loss element of superconducting quantum devices. We notice that the intrinsic parameters of a typical superinductor in fact place it into the Bose glass universality class for which the propagation of waves in a sufficiently long chain is hindered by pinning. Its weakness provides for a broad crossover from the spectrum of well-resolved plasmon standing waves at high frequencies to the low-frequency excitation spectrum of a pinned charge density wave. We relate the scattering amplitude of microwave photons reflected off a superinductor to the dynamics of a Bose glass. The dynamics at long and short scales compared to the Larkin pinning length determines the low- and high-frequency asymptotes of the reflection amplitude.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.122.237701},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 23,
volume = 122,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jun 13 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Thu Jun 13 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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