Microwave-Photon-Assisted Tunneling in Sn-I-Sn Superconducting Tunnel Junctions

Influence of photon-assisted tunneling on heat flow in a normal metal–superconductor tunnel junction

“…[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] This phenomenon arises when a relatively high-frequency field is applied across a tunnel junction whose dc current-voltage characteristics are highly nonlinear. The radiation field is, however, slow enough to guarantee adiabatic evolution of the energy levels of the electrons.…”

“…Photon-assisted tunneling (PAT) has been discussed in literature for almost half a century by now 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18 .…”

Calculation of rf-induced current–voltage characteristics of a measured Josephson tunnel junction

“…This results need not to be in contradiction to those of Hamilton [14] and other authors who started the determination of step heights from the assumption of a monochromatic rf voltage. But this approach in addition contains a simple possibility for explanation of previously found deviations from theoretical expectations incorporating a monochromatic rf voltage [15].…”

Microwave Photon-Assisted Incoherent Cooper-Pair Tunneling in a Josephson STM

“…Photon-assisted quasiparticle tunneling has been studied extensively in thin-film superconductor-insulatorsuperconductor (S-I-S) tunnel junctions and single electron transistors [15][16][17][18][19][20][21] . In a junction driven by microwaves of frequency ω, the time-averaged (dc) quasiparticle current through the junction is given by 22…”