History of the Josephson effect

In 1962 Brian Josephson published his inaugural paper predicting the effect as Section "Possible new effects in superconductive tunnelling (1963, Prediction of the Josephson effect)".

In 1963 Philip W. Anderson and John M. Rowell published their paper that first observed the effect as Section "Possible new effects in superconductive tunnelling (1963, Prediction of the Josephson effect)".

Some golden notes can be found at True Genius: The Life and Science of John Bardeen page 224 and around. Philip W. Anderson commented:

We were all - Josephson, Pippard and myself, as well as various other people who also habitually sat at the Mond tea and participated in the discussions of the next few weeks - very much puzzled by the meaning of the fact that the current depends on the phase

As part of the course Anderson had introduced the concept of broken symmetry in superconductors. Josephson "was fascinated by the idea of broken symmetry, and wondered whether there could be any way of observing it experimentally."

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- Possible new effects in superconductive tunnelling History of the Josephson effect
- Probable observation of the Josephson superconducting tunneling effect History of the Josephson effect

Possible new effects in superconductive tunnelling (1963, Prediction of the Josephson effect)

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The inaugural that predicted the Josephson effect.

Published on Physics Letters, then a new journal, before they split into Physics Letters A and Physics Letters B. True Genius: The Life and Science of John Bardeen mentions that this choice was made rather than the more prestigious Physical Review Letters because they were not yet so confident about the results.

Paywalled by Elsevier as of 2023 at: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0031916362913690

Probable observation of the Josephson superconducting tunneling effect (1963, Observation of the Josephson effect)

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Paper by Philip W. Anderson and John M. Rowell that first (?) experimentally observed the Josephson effect.

Paywalled by the American Physical Society as of 2023 at: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.10.230

DOI: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.10.230

TODO understand the graphs in detail.

They used tin-oxide-lead tunnel at 1.5 K. TODO oxide of what? Why two different metals? They say that both films are 200 nm thick, so maybe it is:

   -----+------+------+-----
...  Sn | SnO2 | PbO2 | Pb  ...
   -----+------+------------
          100nm 100nm

A reconstruction of their circuit in Ciro's ASCII art circuit diagram notation TODO:

DC---R_10---X---G

There are not details of the physical construction of course. Reproducibility lol.

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Figure 1 of Probable observation of the Josephson superconducting tunneling effect
. TODO what do the dotted lines mean?

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Figure 2 of Probable observation of the Josephson superconducting tunneling effect
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