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We investigate the proximity effect in junctions between $N=3$ superconductors under commensurate voltage bias. The bias is chosen to highlight the role of transport processes that exchange multiple Cooper pairs coherently between more than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-01 Ciprian Padurariu , Thibaut Jonckheere , Jérôme Rech , Thierry Martin , Denis Feinberg

We present measurements of 1/f frequency noise in both linear and Josephson-junction-embedded superconducting aluminum resonators in the low power, low temperature regime - typical operating conditions for superconducting qubits. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-03 K. W. Murch , S. J. Weber , E. M. Levenson-Falk , R. Vijay , I. Siddiqi

We performed low temperature shot noise measurements in Superconductor (TiN) - strongly disordered normal metal (heavily doped Si) weakly transparent junctions. We show that the conductance has a maximum due to coherent multiple reflections…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Lefloch , C. Hoffmann , M. Sanquer , D. Quirion

Quantum spin Hall-superconductor hybrids are promising sources of topological superconductivity and Majorana modes, particularly given recent progress on HgTe and InAs/GaSb. We propose a new method of revealing topological superconductivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-11-11 Shu-Ping Lee , Karen Michaeli , Jason Alicea , Amir Yacoby

An all-superconducting bijunction consists of a central superconductor contacted to two lateral superconductors, such that non-local crossed Andreev reflection is operating. Then new correlated transport channels for the Cooper pairs appear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-05 T. Jonckheere , J. Rech , T. Martin , B. Douçot , D. Feinberg , R. Mélin

The dynamics of fluxons in long Josephson junctions is a well-known example of soliton physics and allows for studying highly nonlinear relativistic electrodynamics on a microscopic scale. Such fluxons are supercurrent vortices that can be…

The sensitivity of superconducting qubits allows for spectroscopy and coherence measurements on individual two-level systems present in the disordered tunnel barrier of an $\mathrm{Al/AlO_x/Al}$ Josephson junction. We report experimental…

The statics and dynamics of magnetic flux quanta (fluxons) in long annular Josephson tunnel junctions have been investigated. Pinning by interaction of the fluxon field outside the junction with the superconducting wiring has been observed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Muenter , T. Doderer , H. Pressler , S. Keil , R. P. Huebener

It is shown, with citing tunnel junction as an example, that mutual interplay of electron quantum transfers in a conducting system can be the fast mechanism for generation fundamental low-frequency flicker conductance fluctuations (1/f…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. E. Kuzovlev , Yu. V. Medvedev , A. M. Grishin

Electronic transport through nanostructures is greatly affected by the presence of superconducting leads. If the interface between the nanostructure and the superconductors is sufficiently transparent, a dissipationless current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Jorden A. van Dam , Leo P. Kouwenhoven

Interference of electronic waves undergoing Andreev reflection in diffusive conductors determines the energy profile of the conductance on the scale of the Thouless energy. A similar dependence exists in the current noise, but its behavior…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 F. Pistolesi , M. Houzet

Scattering processes in quantum materials emerge as resonances in electronic transport, including confined modes, Andreev states, and Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states. However, in most instances, these resonances are driven by a single scattering…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-26 Sharadh Jois , Jose L. Lado , Genda Gu , Qiang Li. , Ji Ung Lee

The discovery that a gate electrode suppresses the supercurrent in purely metallic systems is missing a complete physical understanding of the mechanisms at play. We here study the origin of this reduction in a Superconductor-Normal…

Josephson current between two one-dimensional nanowires with proximity induced $p$-wave superconducting pairing is calculated in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction, in-plane and normal magnetic fields. We show that Andreev…

This paper theoretically discusses the spin current in spin-triplet superconductor / insulator / spin-triplet superconductor junctions. At low temperatures, a midgap Andreev resonant state anomalously enhances not only the charge current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Yasuhiro Asano

We theoretically analyze Josephson dynamics of superconducting weak links with transmissions ${\mathcal T}$ not much smaller than unity at subgap bias voltages $V$. Employing the effective action approach combined with the Keldysh technique…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-27 Artem V. Galaktionov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We study intrinsic noise of current in a superconducting single-electron transistor, taking into account both coherence effects and Coulomb interaction near a Cooper-pair resonance. Due to this interplay, the statistics of tunneling events…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mahn-Soo Choi , Francesco Plastina , Rosario Fazio

Phase- and voltage bias-sensitive quasiparticle transport at a double $NIS_1IS_2$ interface is considered. The barriers $I$ range from tunnel to transparent, and the intermediate region $S_1$ has a width comparable to the superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-16 David Gosselin , Gaston Hornecker , Régis Mélin , Denis Feinberg

Current fluctuations related to the discreteness of charge passing through small constrictions are termed shot noise. This unavoidable noise provides both advantages - being a direct measurement of the transmitted particles' charge, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Idan Tamir , Verena Caspari , Daniela Rolf , Christian Lotze , Katharina J. Franke

The quasiparticle density observed in low-temperature superconducting circuits is several orders of magnitude larger than the value expected at thermal equilibrium. The tunneling of this excess of quasiparticles across Josephson junctions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 José Alberto Nava Aquino , Rogério de Sousa