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Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowires with Rashba spin-orbit coupling are arguably becoming the leading platform for the search of Majorana bound states (MBSs) in engineered topological superconductors. We perform a systematic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-04 Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Elsa Prada , Ramón Aguado

Topological superconductors, which support Majorana fermion excitations, have been the subject of intense studies due to their novel transport properties and their potential applications in fault-tolerant quantum computations. Here we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-02-24 James Jun He , Jiansheng Wu , Ting-Pong Choy , Xiong-Jun Liu , Y. Tanaka , K. T. Law

Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems provide a promising platform for hosting unpaired Majorana fermions towards the realisation of fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. In this study, we employ the Keldysh Non-Equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Praveen Sriram , Sandesh S Kalantre , Kaveh Gharavi , Jonathan Baugh , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

We study a non-Hermitian, multiterminal superconducting-normal system in order to identify experimental signatures of exceptional points. We focus on a minimal setting with a single spinful level, spin-dependent normal leads, and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Oliver Solow , Karsten Flensberg

We investigate odd-frequency superconducting correlations in normal-superconductor (NS) and short superconductor-normal-superconductor (SNS) junctions with the S region described by the Kitaev model of spinless fermions in one dimension. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-26 Athanasios Tsintzis , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Jorge Cayao

We numerically study crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) in a topological insulator nanowire T-junction where one lead is proximitized by a superconductor. We perform realistic simulations based on the 3D BHZ model and compare the results with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Jacob Fuchs , Michael Barth , Cosimo Gorini , İnanç Adagideli , Klaus Richter

To guide the search for the Majorana fermion, we theoretically study superconductor/topological/superconductor (S/TI/S) junctions in an experimentally relevant regime. We find that the striking features present in these systems, including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-01 M. Snelder , M. Veldhorst , A. A. Golubov , A. Brinkman

We investigate ac Josephson effect in the resonant tunneling through mesoscopic superconducting junctions. In the presence of microwave irradiation, we show that the trajectory of multiple Andreev reflections can be closed by emitting or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-03 Yu Zhu , Qing-feng Sun , Wei Li , Zhong-shui Ma , Tsung-han Lin

Spectra and spin structures of Andreev interface states and the Josephson current are investigated theoretically in junctions between clean superconductors (SC) with ordered interlayers. The Josephson current through the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuri Barash , I. V. Bobkova , Brian M. Andersen , T. Kopp , P. J. Hirschfeld

Gate-tunable semiconductor nanowires with superconducting leads have great potential for quantum computation and as model systems for mesoscopic Josephson junctions. The supercurrent, $I$, versus the phase, $\phi$, across the junction is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Eric M. Spanton , Mingtang Deng , Saulius Vaitiekėnas , Peter Krogstrup , Jesper Nygård , Charles M. Marcus , Kathryn A. Moler

The tunneling junction between one-dimensional topological superconductor and integer (fractional) topological insulator (TI), realized via point contact, is investigated theoretically with bosonization technology and renormalization group…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-03 Zheng-Wei Zuo , Da-wei Kang , Zhao-Wu Wang , Liben Li

We present an experimental and theoretical investigation of coherent current transport in wide ballistic superconductor-two dimensional electron gas-superconductor junctions. It is found experimentally that upon increasing the junction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Samuelsson , A. Ingerman , G. Johansson , E. V. Bezuglyi , V. S. Shumeiko , G. Wendin , R. Kursten , A. Richter , T. Matsuyama , U. Merkt

We investigate electronic transport in Josephson junctions formed by single-walled carbon nanotubes coupled to superconducting electrodes. We observe enhanced zero-bias conductance (up to 10e^2/h) and pronounced sub-harmonic gap structures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-24 Y. Zhang , G. Liu , C. N. Lau

We study the Josephson effect in the multiterminal junction of topological superconductors. We use the symmetry-constrained scattering matrix approach to derive band dispersions of emergent sub-gap Andreev bound states in a multidimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-03 Hong-Yi Xie , Alex Levchenko

By measuring the Josephson emission of a diffusive Superconductor-Normal metal-Superconductor (SNS) junction at a finite temperature we reveal a non-trivial sensitivity of the supercurrent to microwave irradiation. We demonstrate that the…

Junctions created by coupling two superconductors via a semiconductor nanowire in the presence of high magnetic fields are the basis for detection, fusion, and braiding of Majorana bound states. We study NbTiN/InSb nanowire/NbTiN Josephson…

We study Andreev reflection and Josephson currents in topological bilayer exciton condensates (TEC). These systems can create 100% spin entangled nonlocal currents with high amplitudes due to perfect nonlocal Andreev reflection. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Veldhorst , M. Hoek , M. Snelder , H. Hilgenkamp , A. A. Golubov , A. Brinkman

The Josephson current flowing in a junction between two superconductors is a striking manifestation of macroscopic quantum coherence, with applications in metrology and quantum information. This equilibrium current is related with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Julia S. Meyer , Manuel Houzet

A graphene sheet partially covered with a bulk superconductor serves as a normal conductor--superconductor (NS) junction, in which electron transport is mainly governed by Andreev reflection (AR). As excess carriers induced over the covered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Yositake Takane , Katsuhide Yarimizu , Akinobu Kanda

We study the $I$-$V$ characteristics of S$_{\text{T}}$/n/N contacts, where S$_{\text{T}}$ is a BCS superconductor S with a built-in exchange field $h$, n represents a normal metal wire, and N---a normal metal reservoir. The superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-05-18 Andreas Moor , Anatoly F. Volkov , Konstantin B. Efetov