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Entangling Alliances: Photons and Charge Oscillations in Josephson Arrays
David Stroud Ohio-State University
A Josephson junction is a superconducting device in which an
applied dc current can produce an ac voltage. Since the
currents are charged, they can couple strongly to any
nearby electromagnetic field. In this talk, I will first review
some recent experiments by Barbara and collaborators, in which
arrays of junctions couple to the modes of an electromagnetic
cavity, producing voltage steps and remarkably strong
coherent radiation into the cavity. I will
then present a model which can explain this behavior
and predict additional novel effects. Finally, I will discuss
what happens in the quantum limit of very small junctions. In
this case, one may observe novel entangled quantum-mechanical states
between the cavity photons and the charge states of the
Josephson junctions.
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