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Phase-coherent caloritronics with ordinary and topological Josephson junctions

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2020-02-13 v2 Superconductivity

Abstract

We provide a brief and comprehensive overview over recent developments in the field of phase-coherent caloritronics in ordinary and topological Josephson junctions. We start from the simple case of a short, one-dimensional superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (S-N-S) Josephson junction and derive the phase-dependent thermal conductance within the Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism. Then, we review the key experimental breakthroughs that have triggered the recent growing interest into phase-coherent heat transport. They include the realization of thermal interferometers, diffractors, modulators and routers based on superconducting tunnel junctions. Finally, we discuss very recent theoretical findings based on superconductor-topological insulator-superconductor (S-TI-S) Josephson junctions that show interesting heat transport properties due to the interplay between topological band structures and superconductivity.

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@article{arxiv.1905.09262,
  title  = {Phase-coherent caloritronics with ordinary and topological Josephson junctions},
  author = {Sun-Yong Hwang and Björn Sothmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.09262},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

A topical review invited from EPJ ST Special Issues; 23 pages, 8 figures, 120 references

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