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Superconducting proximity junctions based on topological insulators are widely believed to harbor Majorana-like bound states. The latter serves as a paradigm non-local topological quantum computation protocols. Nowadays, a search for…

The current-phase relation (CPR) for a short Josephson junction placed in the nonuniform field of a small ferromagnetic particle is studied. The effect of the particle produced on the junction appears to be strong due to the formation of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-14 A. V. Samokhvalov

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

In superconducting systems in which inversion and time-reversal symmetry are simultaneously broken the critical current for positive and negative current bias can be different. For superconducting systems formed by Josephson junctions (JJs)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-06 Joseph J. Cuozzo , Wei Pan , Javad Shabani , Enrico Rossi

We theoretically study the stability of more than one Majorana Fermion appearing in a $p$-wave superconductor/dirty normal metal/$p$-wave superconductor junction in two-dimension by using chiral symmetry of Hamiltonian. At the phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 S. Ikegaya , Y. Asano

Josephson junctions are essential devices in superconducting electronics and quantum computing hardware. Here we predict electrical control of the supercurrent in composite superconductor-insulator-ferroelectric-insulator-superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-08 Yaozu Tang , Mazhar N. Ali , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Yaroslav M. Blanter

A nonmonotonic dependence of the critical Josephson supercurrent on the injection current through a normal metal/ferromagnet weak link from a single domain ferromagnetic strip has been observed experimentally in nanofabricated planar…

We consider a ballistic Josephson junction with a quantum point contact in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The point contact acts as a spin filter when embedded in a circuit with normal electrodes. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-15 A. A. Reynoso , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro , D. Feinberg , M. Avignon

Time-reversal-invariant topological superconductor (TRITOPS) wires host Majorana Kramers pairs that have been predicted to mediate a fractional Josephson effect with $4\pi$ periodicity in the superconducting phase difference. We explore the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-18 Christina Knapp , Aaron Chew , Jason Alicea

The fractional Josephson effect has been observed in many instances as a signature of a topological superconducting state containing zero-energy Majorana modes. We present a nontopological scenario which can produce a fractional Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Jay D. Sau , F. Setiawan

We theoretically study a one dimensional p-wave superconducting mesoscopic ring interrupted by a weak link and coupled inductively to a microwave cavity. We establish an input-output description for the cavity field in the presence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-26 Olesia Dmytruk , Mircea Trif , Pascal Simon

We propose a setup involving Majorana bound states (MBS) hosted by a vortex on a superconducting surface of a 3D Topological Insulator (TI). We consider a narrow channel drilled across a TI slab with both sides covered by s-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 P. A. Ioselevich , M. V. Feigel'man

We study a phase-tunable four-terminal Josephson junction formed in an InSbAs two-dimensional electron gas proximitized by aluminum. By embedding the two pairs of junction terminals in asymmetric DC SQUIDs we can control the superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Christian G. Prosko , Wietze D. Huisman , Ivan Kulesh , Di Xiao , Candice Thomas , Michael J. Manfra , Srijit Goswami

The Josephson effect describes supercurrent flowing through a junction connecting two superconducting leads by a thin barrier [1]. This current is driven by a superconducting phase difference $\phi$ between the leads. In the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-28 D. B. Szombati , S. Nadj-Perge , D. Car , S. R. Plissard , E. P. A. M. Bakkers , L. P. Kouwenhoven

We consider a Josephson bijunction consisting of a thin $SIS$ $\pi$-Josephson junction sandwiched between two-dimensional semiconducting layers with strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Each of these layers forms an $SNS$ junction due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Yanick Volpez , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

Mesoscopic superconducting-normal-metal-superconducting (S-N-S) junctions with a large separation between the superconducting electrodes (i.e. wide junctions) exhibit nonequilibrium supercurrents, even at temperatures for which the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Nathan Argaman

A single spin in a Josephson junction can reverse the flow of the supercurrent. At mesoscopic length scales, such $\pi$-junctions are employed in various instances from finding the pairing symmetry to quantum computing. In Yu-Shiba-Rusinov…

We consider superconducting nanowire proximity coupled to superconductor / ferromagnet / superconductor junction, where the magnetization penetrates into superconducting segment in nanowire decaying as $\sim\exp[-\frac{\mid n \mid}{\xi}]$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-20 Hiromi Ebisu , Bo Lu , Katsuhisa Taguchi , Alexander A. Golubov , Yukio Tanaka

A formula for the Josephson current between two superconductors with anisotropic pairing symmetries is derived based on the mean-field theory of superconductivity. Zero-energy states formed at the junction interfaces is one of basic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Yasuhiro Asano

To clarify the origin of anomalous behaviors in Pb/Sr2RuO4/Pb junctions in terms of the pairing symmetry, a theory of the d.c. Josephson current in s-wave superconductor / p-wave superconductor / s-wave superconductor junctions is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-08-17 Masashi Yamashiro , Yukio Tanaka , Satoshi Kashiwaya