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A Josephson supercurrent has been induced into the three-dimensional topological insulator Bi1.5Sb0.5Te1.7Se1.3. We show that the transport in Bi1.5Sb0.5Te1.7Se1.3 exfoliated flakes is dominated by surface states and that the bulk…

Superconductor-topological insulator-superconductor Josephson junctions have been fabricated in order to study the width dependence of the critical current, normal state resistance and flux periodicity of the critical current modulation in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 C. G. Molenaar , D. P. Leusink , X. L. Wang , A. Brinkman

Using the Usadel equation approach, we provide a compact formalism to calculate the critical current density of 21 different types of ferromagnetic (F) Josephson junctions containing insulating (I) and normal metal (N) layers in the weak…

Josephson junctions were photogenerated in underdoped thin films of the YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6+x}$ family using a near-field scanning optical microscope. The observation of the Josephson effect for separations as large as 100 nm between two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 R. S. Decca , H. D. Drew , E. Osquiguil , B. Maiorov , J. Guimpel

A zigzag boundary between a $d_{x^2-y^2}$ and an $s$-wave superconductor is believed to behave like a long Josephson junction with alternating sections of $0$ and $\pi$ symmetry. We calculate the field-dependent critical current of such a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Ivan Tornes , David Stroud

We calculate the dc supercurrent through a Josephson tunnel junction consisting of an antiferromagnetic (AF) interlayer sandwiched between two d-wave superconductors (d). Such d/AF/d junctions exhibit a rich dependence of the Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Brian M. Andersen , Yu. S. Barash , S. Graser , P. J. Hirschfeld

We carry out an extensive experimental and theoretical study of the Josephson effect in S-N-S junctions made of a diffusive normal metal (N) embedded between two superconducting electrodes (S). Our experiments are performed on Nb-Cu-Nb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Dubos , H. Courtois , B. Pannetier , F. K. Wilhelm , A. D. Zaikin , G. Schon

We study the dc Josephson effect and the density of states in a multiterminal structure of cross-type geometry which consists of four superconducting electrodes connected by one-dimensional normal or ferromagnetic wires. We find that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-01-16 Sebastian Mai , Ervand Kandelaki , Anatoly Volkov , Konstantin Efetov

In the classical Josephson effect the phase difference across the junction is well defined, and the supercurrent is reduced only weakly by phase diffusion. For mesoscopic junctions with small capacitance the phase undergoes large quantum…

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

Nonlocal supercurrent was observed in mesoscopic planar SNS Josephson junction with additional normal metal electrodes when nonequilibrium quasiparticles were injected from the normal metal electrode in one of the superconducting banks of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-03-18 T. E. Golikova , M. J. Wolf , D. Beckmann , I. E. Batov , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , V. V. Ryazanov

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

The Josephson diode effect, where the critical current magnitude depends on its direction, arises when both time-reversal and inversion symmetries are broken - often achieved by a combination of spin-orbit interaction and applied magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Gerrit Behner , Abdur Rehman Jalil , Detlev Grützmacher , Thomas Schäpers

We analyze the properties of flat-band superconductor junctions that behave differently from ordinary junctions containing only metals with Fermi surfaces. In particular, we show how in the tunneling limit the critical Josephson current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-08 P. Virtanen , R. P. S. Penttilä , P. Törmä , A. Díez-Carlón , D. K. Efetov , T. T. Heikkilä

The response of superconductor-normal-metal-superconductor junctions to magnetic field is complicated and non-universal because all trajectories contributing to supercurrent have a different effective area, and therefore acquire arbitrary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-11 Muhammad Irfan , Anton R. Akhmerov

We report the first experimental observation of the two-node thickness dependence of the critical current in Josephson junctions with a ferromagnetic interlayer. Vanishings of the critical current correspond to transitions into pi-state and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Oboznov , V. V. Bol'ginov , A. K. Feofanov , V. V. Ryazanov , A. I. Buzdin

Josephson junctions enable dissipation-less electrical current through metals and insulators below a critical current. Despite being central to quantum technology based on superconducting quantum bits and fundamental research into…

We study mesoscopic fluctuations and weak localization correction to the supercurrent in Josephson junctions with coherent diffusive electron dynamics in the normal part. Two kinds of junctions are considered: a chaotic dot coupled to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-10 M. Houzet , M. A. Skvortsov

Superconductivity is shown to be completely destroyed in thin mesoscopic or nanoscopic rings closed by the junction with a noticeable interfacial pair breaking and/or a Josephson coupling, if a ring's radius r is less than the minimum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-05 Yu. S. Barash

In this work, we briefly overview various options for Josephson junctions which should be scalable down to nanometer range for utilization in nanoscale digital superconducting technology. Such junctions should possess high values of…

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