Reply to “Comment on ‘Absence of a Dissipative Quantum Phase Transition in Josephson Junctions”’

A. Murani; N. Bourlet; H. le Sueur; F. Portier; C. Altimiras; D. Esteve; H. Grabert; J. Stockburger; J. Ankerhold; P. Joyez

doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.11.018002

Reply to “Comment on ‘Absence of a Dissipative Quantum Phase Transition in Josephson Junctions”’

A. Murani, N. Bourlet, H. le Sueur, F. Portier, C. Altimiras, D. Esteve, H. Grabert, J. Stockburger, J. Ankerhold, P. Joyez

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevX.11.018002 · Physical Review X

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Abstract

In their Comment [P. Hakonen and E. B. Sonin, preceding comment, Phys. Rev. X 11, 018001 (2021)], Hakonen and Sonin (HS) object to our conclusion on the absence of a dissipation-induced superconducting-to-insulating quantum phase transition (DQPT) in resistively shunted Josephson junctions (RSJJs) originally predicted by Schmid and Bulgadaev (SB). Their objections are based on the account they make of a theory explaining the DQPT in terms of Bloch bands which was developed in the 1980s and early 1990s. In this Reply, we point to several issues in the Comment which undermine the objections HS formulate against our work.