High-field Josephson effect enabled by a moiré Hofstadter spectrum
Abstract
Magnetic fields generally suppress phase-coherent Josephson transport, limiting superconducting interferometry to relatively low fields. Here we show that moir\'e-engineered graphene Josephson junctions can overcome this constraint. Using ballistic graphene/hBN junctions, we establish phase-coherent Andreev transport through Fabry-P\'erot oscillations and Fraunhofer interference that persist across both the primary Dirac cone and reconstructed moir\'e minibands. We then demonstrate phase-coherent Josephson interference up to 6 T in the fractal Hofstadter-butterfly regime, well beyond the range expected for conventional ballistic graphene junctions. Comparison with Hofstadter-spectrum calculations reveals that superconductivity survives where the moir\'e potential transforms Landau levels with quenched group velocity into dispersive magnetic Bloch bands with finite quasiparticle group velocity, enabling extended electron-hole Andreev trajectories across the junction. Our results show that Hofstadter minibands can stabilize phase-coherent superconductivity deep into the parameter domain conventionally associated with the quantum Hall regime, establishing a new platform for high-field superconducting interferometry.
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@article{arxiv.2607.11721,
title = {High-field Josephson effect enabled by a moiré Hofstadter spectrum},
author = {A. Díez-Carlón and M. Cárdenes Wuttig and N. Wei and D. Ivanov and P. Altpeter and P. Hakonen and K. Watanabe and T. Taniguchi and L. I. Glazman and D. K. Efetov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.11721},
year = {2026}
}