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We propose a way to control the Josephson energy of a single Josephson junction embedded in one- dimensional superconducting metamaterial: an inhomogeneous superconducting loop, made out of a superconducting nanowire or a chain of Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Masahiko Taguchi , Denis M. Basko , Frank W. J. Hekking

The Josephson effect in ballistic point contacts between single-band and multi-band superconductors was investigated. It was found that in the case of Josephson junctions formed by a single-band and an $s_\pm$-wave two-band superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-12-11 Y. S. Yerin , A. S. Kiyko , A. N. Omelyanchouk , E. Il'ichev

We propose a topological qubit in which braiding and readout are mediated by the $4\pi$ Majorana-Josephson effect. The braidonium device consists of three Majorana nanowires that come together to make a tri-junction; in order to control the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 John P. T. Stenger , Michael Hatridge , Sergey M. Frolov , David Pekker

The low-energy theory of hybrid nanowire systems fails to define Majorana fermion (MF) in the strong tunneling and magnetic field strength. To address this limitation, we propose a holistic approach to define MF in which the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Guo-Jian Qiao , Xin Yue , C. P. Sun

We review experiments on small-capacitance Josephson junctions. When the Josephson junction is fabricated in the configuration of dc superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), the Josephson coupling can be tuned IN SITU with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michio Watanabe , David B. Haviland

Realizations of Majorana fermions in solid state materials have attracted great interests recently in connection to topological order and quantum information processing. We propose a novel way to create Majorana fermions in superconductors.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-04 Yuan-Ming Lu , Ziqiang Wang

We investigate experimentally a deterministic underdamped Josephson vortex ratchet -- a fluxon-particle moving along a Josephson junction in an asymmetric periodic potential. By applying a sinusoidal driving current one can compel the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-01-31 M. Knufinke , K. Ilin , M. Siegel , D. Koelle , R. Kleiner , E. Goldobin

In this study, we explore the Josephson current-phase relation within a planar diffuse tunneling superconducting multilayer junction subjected to a parallel magnetic field. Our investigation involves computing the supercurrent associated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-19 A. S. Osin , Alex Levchenko , Maxim Khodas

In this work, we derive an analytical procedure for obtaining a multidimensional washboard ratchet potential Uf for two-dimensional Josephson junctions array (TDJJA) with an applied magnetic field. The magnetic field is given in units of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-11-04 Rafael Rangel , Marcos Negruz

The Josephson diode effect (JDE) has attracted significant attention for enabling directional, dissipationless supercurrents, positioning Josephson junctions as promising building blocks for next-generation quantum devices. Hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Ardamon Sten , Sudeep Kumar Ghosh

Tunneling experiment is a key technique for detecting Majorana fermion in solid state systems. We use Keldysh non-equilibrium Green function method to study multi-lead tunneling in superconducting nanowire with Rashba and Dresselhaus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jia-Bin You , Xiao-Qiang Shao , Qing-Jun Tong , A. H. Chan , C. H. Oh , Vlatko Vedral

We investigate a heterostructure system with a spin-orbit coupled semiconductor sandwiched by an s-wave superconductor and a ferromagnetic insulator, which supports Majorana fermions (MFs) at the superconducting vortex cores. We propose a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 Long-Hua Wu , Qi-Feng Liang , Zhi Wang , Xiao Hu

We investigate theoretical aspects of the detection of Majorana bound states in Josephson junctions using the semiclassical RCSJ model of junction dynamics. The influence of a 4$\pi$-periodic supercurrent contribution can be detected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-06 Jordi Picó-Cortés , Fernando Domínguez , Gloria Platero

We discuss a strong relationship between Majorana fermions and odd-frequency Cooper pairs which appear at a disordered normal (N) nano wire attached to a topologically nontrivial superconducting (S) one. The transport properties in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-22 Yasuhiro Asano , Yukio Tanaka

The Josephson diode (JD) is a non-reciprocal circuit element that supports a larger critical current in one direction compared to the other. This effect has gained a growing interest because of promising applications in superconducting…

The 1937 theoretical discovery of Majorana fermions--whose defining property is that they are their own anti-particles--has since impacted diverse problems ranging from neutrino physics and dark matter searches to the fractional quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-04 Jason Alicea

We theoretically study Josephson junctions with a transition metal dichalcogenide zigzag ribbon as a weak link. We demonstrate that the spatial profile of the supercurrent carried by the edge modes determines the critical current dependence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 D. Sticlet , P. Wójcik , M. P. Nowak

We show how to exchange (braid) Majorana fermions in a network of superconducting nanowires by control over Coulomb interactions rather than tunneling. Even though Majorana fermions are charge-neutral quasiparticles (equal to their own…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 B. van Heck , A. R. Akhmerov , F. Hassler , M. Burrello , C. W. J. Beenakker

Josephson current in SFcFS junctions with arbitrary transparency of the constriction (c) is investigated. The emphasis is done on the analysis of the supercurrent dependencies on the misorientation angle $\theta $ between the in-plane…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 A. V. Zaitsev

We theoretically study the DC Josephson effect of a semiconductor nanowire (NW) with strong spin-orbit interaction when a magnetic field is applied parallel to the NW. We adopt a model of single scatterer in a quasi-one-dimensional system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-15 Tomohiro Yokoyama , Mikio Eto , Yuli V. Nazarov