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We study Andreev bound states in a long shallow normal constriction, which is open to a superconductor at both ends. The interesting features of such setup include the absence of electron-hole symmetry and the interference of electron waves…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Lodder , Yu. V. Nazarov

Josephson junctions formed in semiconductor nanowires host Andreev bound states and serve as a physical platform to realize Andreev qubits tuned by electrostatic gating. With the Andreev bound state being confined to the nanoscale weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 O. O. Shvetsov , A. Khola , V. Buccheri , I. P. C. Cools , N. Trnjanin , T. Kanne , J. Nygård , A. Geresdi

The theory of Andreev conductance is formulated for junctions involving normal metals (N) and multiband superconductors (S) and applied to the case of superconductors with nodeless extended $s_{\pm}$-wave order parameter symmetry, as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 A. A. Golubov , A. Brinkman , O. V. Dolgov , I. I. Mazin , Y. Tanaka

We investigate the low-energy theory of a one-dimensional finite capacitance topological Josephson junction. Charge fluctuations across the junction couple to resonant microwave fields and can be used to probe microscopic excitations such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-13 Konstantin Yavilberg , Eran Ginossar , Eytan Grosfeld

We calculate the differential conductance at a probe inserted in the weak link of a topological Josephson junction, consisting of a semiconducting nanowire deposited on top of two separated superconductors. Our aim is to understand how the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Stefano Valentini , Rosario Fazio , Fabio Taddei

As charge carriers traverse a single superconductor ferromagnet interface they experience an additional spin-dependent phase angle which results in spin mixing and the formation of a bound state called the Andreev Bound State. This state is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-29 K. A. Yates , D. Prabhakaran , M. Egilmez , J. W. A. Robinson , L. F. Cohen

We demonstrate that the mode number of Andreev bound states in bilayer graphene Josephson junctions can be modulated by in situ control of the superconducting coherence length. By exploiting the quadratic band dispersion of bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Geon-Hyoung Park , Wonjun Lee , Sein Park , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Gil Young Cho , Gil-Ho Lee

Andreev bound states are superpositions of electrons and holes in a metal that form by coherent reflection from a superconductor. When the length of the superconductor is comparable to the superconducting coherence length, Andreev bound…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Anders Enevold Dahl , Andrea Maiani , Max Geier , Javad Shabani , Karsten Flensberg

A normal conductor placed in good contact with a superconductor can inherit its remarkable electronic properties. This proximity effect microscopically originates from the formation in the conductor of entangled electron-hole states, called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Landry Bretheau , Joel I-Jan Wang , Riccardo Pisoni , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

We have performed microwave spectroscopy of Andreev states in superconducting weak links tailored in an InAs-Al (core-full shell) epitaxially-grown nanowire. The spectra present distinctive features, with bundles of four lines crossing when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-18 L. Tosi , C. Metzger , M. F. Goffman , C. Urbina , H. Pothier , Sunghun Park , A. Levy Yeyati , J. Nygård , P. Krogstrup

It is shown that the low energy spectrum of mesoscopic superconductors coupled by Josephson interaction can be probed by two-electron tunneling from a normal electrode. The Andreev reflection in the NS junction of a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 F. W. J. Hekking , L. I. Glazman , Gerd Schoen

Spectra and spin structures of Andreev interface states and the Josephson current are investigated theoretically in junctions between clean superconductors (SC) with ordered interlayers. The Josephson current through the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuri Barash , I. V. Bobkova , Brian M. Andersen , T. Kopp , P. J. Hirschfeld

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are not intrinsically superconducting but they can carry a supercurrent when connected to superconducting electrodes. This supercurrent is mainly transmitted by discrete entangled electron-hole states confined to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-28 Jean-Damien Pillet , Charis Quay , Pascal Morfin , Cristina Bena , A. Levy Yeyati , Philippe Joyez

We demonstrate microwave measurements of the Andreev bound state (ABS) spectrum in planar Josephson junctions (JJs) defined in Ge high mobility two-dimensional hole gases contacted by superconducting PtSiGe. The JJs and readout circuitry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 M. Hinderling , S. C. ten Kate , M. Coraiola , D. Z. Haxell , M. Stiefel , M. Mergenthaler , S. Paredes , S. W. Bedell , D. Sabonis , F. Nichele

We develop a detailed microscopic theory describing dc Josephson effect and Andreev bound states in superconducting junctions with a half-metal. In such systems the supercurrent is caused by triplet pairing states emerging due to spin-flip…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-03-29 Artem V. Galaktionov , Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We study the spectrum of Andreev bound states and Josephson currents across a junction of $N$ superconducting wires which may have $s$- or $p$-wave pairing symmetries and develop a scattering matrix based formalism which allows us to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-30 Oindrila Deb , K. Sengupta , Diptiman Sen

We consider Josephson junctions formed by coupling two conventional superconductors via an unconventional magnet and investigate the formation of Andreev bound states, their impact on the Josephson effect, and the emergent superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-25 Yuri Fukaya , Kazuki Maeda , Keiji Yada , Jorge Cayao , Yukio Tanaka , Bo Lu

We consider a Josephson junction built with the two-dimensional semi-Dirac semimetal, which features a hybrid of linear and quadratic dispersion around a nodal point. We model the weak link between the two superconducting regions by a Dirac…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-04-10 Ipsita Mandal

Ferromagnetic-insulator (FI) based Josephson junctions are promising candidates for a coherent superconducting quantum bit as well as a classical superconducting logic circuit. Recently the appearance of an intriguing atomic-scale 0-pi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 Shiro Kawabata , Yukio Tanaka , Alexander A. Golubov , Andrey S. Vasenko , Yasuhiro Asano

We study the energy spectrum and the electromagnetic response of Andreev bound states in short Josephson junctions made of semiconducting nanowires. We focus on the joint effect of Zeeman and spin-orbit coupling on the Andreev level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-15 B. van Heck , J. I. Väyrynen , L. I. Glazman