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Twisted interfaces between stacked van der Waals cuprate crystals enable tunable Josephson coupling between in-plane anisotropic superconducting order parameters. Employing a novel cryogenic assembly technique, we fabricate Josephson…

We experimentally investigate the stochastic phase dynamics of planar Josephson junctions (JJs) and superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) defined in epitaxial InAs/Al heterostructures, and characterized by a large ratio of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-27 D. Z. Haxell , E. Cheah , F. Křížek , R. Schott , M. F. Ritter , M. Hinderling , W. Belzig , C. Bruder , W. Wegscheider , H. Riel , F. Nichele

We consider a planar SIS-type Josephson junction between diffusive superconductors (S) through an insulating tunnel interface (I). We construct fully self-consistent perturbation theory with respect to the interface conductance. As a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-15 A. S. Osin , Ya. V. Fominov

We study, both theoretically and experimentally, the features on the current-voltage characteristic of a highly transparent Josephson junction caused by transition of the superconducting leads to the normal state. These features appear due…

We describe here the first experimental realization of a heat interferometer, thermal counterpart of the well-known superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). These findings demonstrate, on the first place, the existence of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-05-09 M. J. Martínez-Pérez , P. Solinas , F. Giazotto

Josephson junctions, in appropriate configurations, can be excellent candidates for detection of single photons in the microwave frequency band. Such possibility has been recently addressed in the framework of galactic axion detection. Here…

An extended Josephson junction intrinsically couples the superconducting current to the microwave cavity in the insulating barrier. We demonstrate that this coupling produces sidebands in the microwave cavity resonances of the junction. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-29 J. Hammer , M. Aprili , I. Petkovic

Josephson junction field effect transistors (JJ-FET) share design similarities with metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors, except for the source/drain contacts being replaced by superconductors. Similarly, the super current due…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-19 Feng Wen , Javad Shabani , Emanuel Tutuc

We used 2D coupled sine-Gordon equations combined with 3D heat diffusion equations to numerically investigate the thermal and electromagnetic properties of a $250 \times 70\,\mu\mathrm{m}^2$ intrinsic Josephson junction stack. The 700…

We study non-Hermitian Josephson junctions formed by multiple superconductors and discover the emergence of exceptional points entirely determined by the interplay of the distinct superconducting phases and non-Hermiticity due to normal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Jorge Cayao , Masatoshi Sato

Thermocurrent flowing through a single-molecule device contains valuable information about the quantum properties of the molecular structure and, in particular, on its electronic and phononic excitation spectra, and entropy. Furthermore,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-24 Serhii Volosheniuk , Damian Bouwmeester , Chunwei Hsu , H. S. J. van der Zant , Pascal Gehring

We study the influence of a tunable dissipative environment on the dynamics of Josephson junction arrays near the superconductor-insulator transition. The experimental realization of the environment is a two dimensional electron gas coupled…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 Karl-Heinz Wagenblast , Anne van Otterlo , Gerd Schoen , Gergely T. Zimanyi

Current-biased Josephson junctions can act as detectors of electromagnetic radiation. At optimal conditions, their sensitivity is limited by fluctuations causing stochastic switching from the superconducting to the resistive state. This…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-30 Vladimir M. Krasnov

We investigate the Josephson transport through a ferromagnetic oxide film, e.g., La$_2$BaCuO$_5$, theoretically. Using the recursive Green's function technique, we found the formation of a pi-junction in such systems. Moreover the 0-pi…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-11-13 Shiro Kawabata , Yasuhiro Asano , Alexander A. Golubov , Yukio Tanaka , Satoshi Kashiwaya

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 demonstrate that the supercurrent can be strongly enhanced in cross-like superconducting hybrid nanostructures (X-junctions) exposed to a temperature gradient. At temperatures T exceeding the Thouless energy of our X-junction the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-08 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

The high-Q harmonic oscillator mode of a Josephson junction can be used as a novel probe of spurious two-level systems (TLSs) inside the amorphous oxide tunnel barriers of the junction. In particular, we show that spectroscopic transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Tian , R. W. Simmonds

The Josephson coupling between optimally cuprate superconductors separated by a spacer with a finite energy cooperon excitation which contributes to the Josephson coupling strength, is examined. For an underdoped cuprate barrier in its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-21 Kun Huang , Wei-Qiang Chen , T. M. Rice , F. C. Zhang

Thermal rectification phenomenon is a manifestation of an asymmetry in the heat flux when the temperature difference between two interacting thermal reservoirs is reversed. In this letter, we present a far-field radiative thermal rectifier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 Elyes Nefzaoui , Karl Joulain , Jérémie Drevillon , Younès Ezzahri

Josephson diodes are superconducting elements that show an asymmetry in the critical current depending on the direction of the current. Here, we theoretically explore how an alternating current bias can tune the response of such a diode. We…