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An interferometric device is proposed in order to analyze the quartet mode in biased three-terminal Josephson junctions (TTJs), and to provide experimental evidence for emergence of a single stationary phase, the so-called quartet phase. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-25 Régis Mélin , Denis Feinberg

A model system consisting of a mesoscopic superconducting grain coupled by Josephson junctions to two macroscopic superconducting electrodes is studied. We focus on the effects of ohmic dissipation caused by resistive shunts and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Gil Refael , Eugene Demler , Yuval Oreg , Daniel S. Fisher

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 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

The interfacial coupling of two materials with different ordered phases, such as a superconductor (S) and a ferromagnet (F) is driving new fundamental physics and innovative applications. For example, the creation of spin-filter Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-29 D. Massarotti , A. Pal , G. Rotoli , L. Longobardi , M. G. Blamire , F. Tafuri

Coherent caloritronics, the thermal counterpart of coherent electronics, has drawn growing attention since the discovery of heat interference in 2012. Thermal interferometers, diodes, transistors and nano-valves have been theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-02 Federico Paolucci , Giampiero Marchegiani , Elia Strambini , Francesco Giazotto

We propose a heat valve based on the interplay between thermal transport and proximity-induced exchange splitting in Josephson tunnel junctions. We demonstrate that the junction heat conductance strongly depends on the relative alignment of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-09 F. Giazotto , F. S. Bergeret

The effect of thermal fluctuations in Josephson junctions is usually analysed using the Ambegaokar-Halperin (AH) theory in the context of thermal activation. "Enhanced" fluctuations, demonstrated by broadening of current-voltage…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-10-15 Jian Wei , P. Cadden-Zimansky , P. Virtanen , V. Chandrasekhar

Superconductors are known to be excellent thermal insulators at low temperature owing to the presence of the energy gap in their density of states (DOS). In this context, the superconducting \textit{proximity effect} allows to tune the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Nadia Ligato , Federico Paolucci , Elia Strambini , Francesco Giazotto

We discuss heat transport through a Josephson tunnel junction under various bias conditions. We first derive the formula for the cooling power of the junction valid for arbitrary time dependence of the Josephson phase. Combining it with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-04 Dmitry Golubev , Timothé Faivre , Jukka P. Pekola

Thermoelectric effects in metals are typically small due to the nearly-perfect particle-hole (PH) symmetry around their Fermi surface [1, 2]. Despite being initially considered paradoxical [3], thermophase effects [4-8] and linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Gaia Germanese , Federico Paolucci , Giampiero Marchegiani , Alessandro Braggio , Francesco Giazotto

Motivated by recent experiments (Subero et. al. Nature Comm. $\bf{14}$, 7924 (2023)) we analyze photonic heat transport through a Josephson junction in a dissipative environment. For this purpose we derive general expressions for the heat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 A. Levy Yeyati , D. Subero , J. Pekola , R. Sánchez

Symmetry plays a critical role in determining various properties of a material. Semiconducting p-n junction diode exemplifies the engineered skew electronic response and is at the heart of contemporary electronic circuits. The…

Despite extensive experimental and theoretical work over several decades, Schmid-Bulgadaev quantum phase transition remains a subject of debate. Here we revisit this problem by performing systematic experiments on low-frequency…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-24 Diego Subero , Yu-Cheng Chang , Miguel Monteiro , Ze-Yan Chen , Jukka P. Pekola

We show that a system of Josephson junctions coupled via low-resistance tunneling contacts to graphene substrate(s) may effectively operate as a current switching device. The effect is based on the dissipation-driven…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Roman M. Lutchyn , Victor Galitski , Gil Refael , S. Das Sarma

We theoretically propose a phase-coherent thermal circulator based on ballistic multiterminal Josephson junctions. The breaking of time-reversal symmetry by either a magnetic flux or a superconducting phase bias allows heat to flow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Sun-Yong Hwang , Francesco Giazotto , Björn Sothmann

We investigate the superfluid dynamics of a Josephson junction beyond the mean-field description, incorporating the role of thermal fluctuations as well as quantum fluctuations. Using a formalism that accounts for the fluctuations in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-01 Andrea Bardin , Francesco Lorenzi , Luca Salasnich

The continuous miniaturisation of metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) from long- to short-channel architectures has advanced beyond the predictions of Moore's Law. Continued advances in semiconductor electronics,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Yusheng Xiong , Kaveh Delfanazari

In a Josephson junction, which is the central element in superconducting quantum technology, irreversibility arises from abrupt slips of the gauge-invariant quantum phase difference across the contact. A quantum phase slip (QPS) is often…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 E. Gümüş , D. Majidi , D. Nikolić , P. Raif , B. Karimi , J. T. Peltonen , E. Scheer , J. P. Pekola , H. Courtois , W. Belzig , C. B. Winkelmann

A superconductor/normal metal/superconductor Josephson junction is a coherent electron system where the thermodynamic entropy depends on temperature and phase difference across the weak-link. Here, exploiting the phase-temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-04 Francesco Vischi , Matteo Carrega , Pauli Virtanen , Elia Strambini , Alessandro Braggio , Francesco Giazotto