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An extended Josephson junction consists of two superconducting electrodes that are separated by an insulator and it is therefore also a microwave cavity. The superconducting phase difference across the junction determines the supercurrent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-03 V. Humbert , M. Aprili , J. Hammer

We have realized multifacet Josephson junctions with periodically alternating critical current density (MJJs) using superconductor-insulator-ferromagnet-superconductor heterostructures. We show that anomalous features of critical current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-09-30 S. Scharinger , C. Gürlich , R. G. Mints , M. Weides , H. Kohlstedt , E. Goldobin , D. Koelle , R. Kleiner

Planar Josephson junctions in a magnetic field exhibit the superconducting diode effect, by which the critical current magnitude depends on the polarity of the transport current. A number of different mechanisms for the effect have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 William F. Schiela , Melissa Mikalsen , William M. Strickland , Javad Shabani

Driven atomic Josephson junctions allow one to monitor phase-coherent dynamics with unprecedented control and flexibility of the system's physical conditions. While cold-atom manifestations of the Josephson effect have been extensively…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-28 Kevin T. Geier , Giampiero Marchegiani , Vijay Pal Singh , Juan Polo , Luigi Amico

We calculate the Josephson current in a diffusive superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor junction, where the ferromagnetic region contains multiple layers (or domains). In particular, we study a configuration where there are two layers…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Iver B. Sperstad , Jacob Linder , Asle Sudbø

We calculate the current-phase relation of a long Josephson junction consisting of two ferromagnetic domains with equal, but opposite magnetization $h$, sandwiched between two superconductors. In the clean limit, the current-phase relation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ya. M. Blanter , F. W. J. Hekking

We calculate the critical current of a superconductor/ferromagnetic/superconductor (S/FM/S) Josephson junction in which the FM layer has a conical magnetic structure composed of an in-plane rotating antiferromagnetic phase and an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-07-06 Gábor B. Halász , J. W. A. Robinson , M. G. Blamire , James F. Annett

We investigate the effect of magnetic field on a photonic-crystal Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifier (TWPA). We show that the observed change in photonic bandgap and plasma frequency of the TWPA can be modeled by considering the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 L. M. Janssen , G. Butseraen , J. Krause , A. Coissard , L. Planat , N. Roch , G. Catelani , Yoichi Ando , C. Dickel

We study the Josephson current through a ballistic normal metal layer of thickness $D$ on which two superconducting electrodes are deposited within a distance $L$ of each other. In the presence of an ({\it in-layer}) magnetic field we find…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Mohammadkhani , M. Zareyan , Ya. M. Blanter

We study non-equilibrium Josephson effect and phase-dependent conductance in three-terminal diffusive interferometers with short arms. We consider strong proximity effect and investigate an interplay of dissipative and Josephson currents…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-12-03 E. V. Bezuglyi , V. S. Shumeiko , G. Wendin

We investigate the direction-dependent switching current in a flux-tunable four-terminal Josephson junction defined in an InAs/Al two-dimensional heterostructure. The device exhibits the Josephson diode effect, with switching currents that…

Josephson current in SFcFS junctions with arbitrary transparency of the constriction (c) is investigated. The emphasis is done on the analysis of the supercurrent dependencies on the misorientation angle $\theta $ between the in-plane…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 A. V. Zaitsev

We investigate HgTe/Nb-based three-terminal Josephson junctions in T-shaped and X-shaped geometries and their critical current contours (CCCs). By decomposing the CCCs into the contributions from individual junctions, we uncover how bias…

In the Josephson effect, coherent Cooper pair tunneling is driven by the phase difference between the superconducting order parameters on opposite sides of the junction. By analogy, differences in order parameters across a junction should…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-20 D. Chassé , A. -M. S. Tremblay

We predict that the amplitude of the Josephson current through an antiferromagnetic weak link changes by several orders of magnitude upon rotation of the N\'eel order parameter characterizing the staggered magnetic order. This occurs due…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-28 Vemund Falch , Jacob Linder

I consider a Josephson junction crossing the middle of a thin rectangular superconducting strip of length L and width W subjected to a perpendicular magnetic induction B. I calculate the spatial dependence of the gauge-invariant phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 John R. Clem

The supercurrent of a Josephson junction is reduced by phase diffusion. For ultrasmall capacitance junctions the current may be further decreased by Coulomb blockade effects. We calculate the Cooper pair current by means of time-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hermann Grabert , Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Benjamin Paul

We study the supercurrent in quasi-one-dimensional Josephson junctions with a weak link involving magnetism, either via magnetic impurities or via ferromagnetism. In the case of weak links longer than {\color{black}the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-24 P. A. Ioselevich , P. M. Ostrovsky , Ya. V. Fominov

An effective free energy of a two dimensional (i.e. large area) Josephson Junctions is derived, allowing for thermal fluctuations, for random magnetic fields and for external currents. We show by using replica symmetry breaking methods,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 Baruch Horovitz , Anatoly Golub

Via a direct coupling between the magnetic order parameter and the singlet Josephson supercurrent, we detect spin-wave resonances, and their dispersion, in ferromagnetic Josephson junctions in which the usual insulating or metallic barrier…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 I. Petkovic , M. Aprili , S. E. Barnes , F. Beuneu , S. Maekawa