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We investigate transport properties of junctions between two spin-split superconductors linked by a spin-polarized tunneling barrier. The spin-splitting fields in the superconductors (S) are induced by adjacent ferromagnetic insulating (FI)…

We present a theory for quasiparticle heat transport through superconducting weak links. The thermal conductance depends on the phase difference ($\phi$) of the superconducting leads. Branch conversion processes, low-energy Andreev bound…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Erhai Zhao , Tomas Lofwander , J. A. Sauls

We theoretically consider the effect of a spatially periodic modulation of the superconducting order parameter on the formation of Majorana fermions induced by a one-dimensional system with magnetic impurities brought into close proximity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 Silas Hoffman , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We propose two experiments to probe the Majorana fermion edge states that occur at a junction between a superconductor and a magnet deposited on the surface of a topological insulator. Combining two Majorana fermions into a single Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Liang Fu , C. L. Kane

We propose a planar Josephson junction setup to host Majorana modes where the semiconductor is sandwiched between superconductors on both surfaces. While the studied configuration is related to both devices proposed for use with topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-05 Huan-Kuang Wu , Jay Sau

The Majorana fermion offers fascinating possibilities such as non-Abelian statistics and non-local robust qubits, and hunting it is one of the most important topics in current condensed matter physics. Most of the efforts have been focused…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Lina Johnsen Kamra , Bo Lu , Jacob Linder , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

We present a theoretical study of the effect of spin-filtering on the Josephson and dissipative quasiparticle currents in a superconducting tunnel junction. By combining the quasiclassical Green's functions and the tunneling Hamiltonian…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-05 F. S. Bergeret , A. Verso , A. F. Volkov

Spatial profile of the Majorana fermion wave function in a one-dimensional $p$-wave superconductors ($\cal{PWS}$) with quasi periodic disorder is shown to exhibit spatial oscillations. These oscillations damp out in the interior of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-05-26 Indubala I Satija

The Josephson junction of a strong spin-orbit material under a magnetic field is a promising Majorana fermion candidate. Supercurrent enhancement by a magnetic field has been observed in the InAs nanowire Josephson junctions and assigned to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Yosuke Sato , Kento Ueda , Yuusuke Takeshige , Hiroshi Kamata , Kan Li , Lars Samuelson , Hongqi Xu , Sadashige Matsuo , Seigo Tarucha

We present an exhaustive study of the coherent heat transport through superconductor-ferromagnet(S-F) Josephson junctions including a spin-filter (I$_{sf}$) tunneling barrier. By using the quasiclassical Keldysh Green's function technique…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-07-23 F. S. Bergeret , F. Giazotto

We study Majorana devices featuring a competition between superconductivity and multi-channel Kondo physics. Our proposal extends previous work on single-channel Kondo systems to a topologically nontrivial setting of non-Fermi liquid type,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-06 A. Zazunov , F. Buccheri , P. Sodano , R. Egger

We consider theoretically the transport properties of a spinless resonant electronic level coupled to strongly dissipative leads, in the regime of circuit impedance near the resistance quantum. Using the Luttinger liquid analogy, one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 Huaixiu Zheng , Serge Florens , Harold U. Baranger

We investigate Josephson currents in mesoscopic rings with a weak link which are in or near a topological superconducting phase. As a paradigmatic example, we consider the Kitaev model of a spinless p-wave superconductor in one dimension,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Falko Pientka , Alessandro Romito , Mathias Duckheim , Yuval Oreg , Felix von Oppen

We study the differential conductance for charge tunneling into a semiconductor wire--superconductor hybrid structure, which is actively investigated as a possible scheme for realizing topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-04 John Stenger , Tudor D. Stanescu

We study a tunnel junction consisting of two thin-film s-wave superconductors separated by a thin, insulating barrier in the presence of misaligned in-plane exchange fields. We find an interesting interplay between the superconducting phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Linder , A. Sudbø

We propose and analyze an interface between a topological qubit and a superconducting flux qubit. In our scheme, the interaction between Majorana fermions in a topological insulator is coherently controlled by a superconducting phase that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-01 Liang Jiang , Charles L. Kane , John Preskill

We theoretically study superconducting islands based on semiconductor-nanowire Josephson junctions and take into account the presence of subgap quasiparticle excitations in the spectrum of the junction. Our method extends the standard model…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-06 J. Avila , E. Prada , P. San-Jose , R. Aguado

Topological superconductors can support localized Majorana states at their boundaries. These quasi-particle excitations have non-Abelian statistics that can be used to encode and manipulate quantum information in a topologically protected…

We investigate a system of multiple Majorana states at the end of a topological superconducting wire coupled to a normal lead. For a minimum of three Majorana fermions at the interface, we find nontrivial renormalization physics. Interface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Oleksiy Kashuba , Carsten Timm

We consider a system of weakly coupled Rashba nanowires in the strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI) regime. The nanowires are arranged into two tunnel-coupled layers proximitized by a top and bottom superconductor such that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Katharina Laubscher , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja