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Alicia G. Castro-Montes

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Quasi-fluxon bubble dynamics in a rapid oscillatory microwave field

In this article, we numerically study the dynamics of a two-dimensional quasi-fluxon bubble in an oscillatory regime stabilized by a localized annular force under a rapidly oscillating microwave field. The bubble exhibits two distinctly dynamical regimes. At first, the oscillation of the bubble wall scales up linearly with the microwave field frequency until it reaches a cutoff, after which it detaches from the external field, returning to its natural oscillation frequency. The amplitude of the quasi-fluxon oscillations is inversely proportional to the square of the microwave field frequency. Following a simplified model based on the Kapitza approach, we proved that this dynamical behavior is characteristic of systems with a harmonic potential subjected to a rapidly oscillating field. Possible applications of microwave detection are discussed.

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Stability of bubble-like fluxons in disk-shaped Josephson junctions in the presence of a coaxial dipole current

We investigate analytically and numerically the stability of bubble-like fluxons in disk-shaped heterogeneous Josephson junctions. Using ring solitons as a model of bubble fluxons in the two-dimensional sine-Gordon equation, we show that the insertion of coaxial dipole currents prevents their collapse. We characterize the onset of instability by introducing a single parameter that couples the radius of the bubble fluxon with the properties of the injected current. For different combination of parameters, we report the formation of stable oscillating bubbles, the emergence of internal modes, and bubble breakup due to internal mode instability. We show that the critical germ depends on the ratio between its radius and the steepness of the wall separating the different phases in the system. If the steepness of the wall is increased (decreased), the critical radius decreases (increases). Our theoretical findings are in good agreement with numerical simulations. We discuss applications in quantum information technologies.

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