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We report the observation of a current-phase relation dominated by the second Josephson harmonic in superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junctions. The exotic current-phase relation is realized in the vicinity of a…

We explore a long Josephson contact transporting Cooper pairs between 1D charge-neutral chiral Majorana modes in the leads via charged Dirac chiral modes in the normal region. We investigate the regimes of (i) transparent contacts and (ii)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-06 Dmitriy S. Shapiro , Alexander Shnirman , Alexander D. Mirlin

We investigate the Josephson current in a graphene superconductor/normal/superconductor junction, where superconductivity is induced by means of the proximity effect from external contacts. We take into account the possibility of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Jacob Linder , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Takehito Yokoyama , Sebastian Doniach , Asle Sudbø

We used the asymmetric superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) technique to extract the current phase relation (CPR) of a Josephson junction with a 3D-topological insulator (TI) Bi2Se3 nanobelt as the barrier. The obtained CPR…

The interplay of graphene and superconductivity has attracted great interest for understanding the two-dimensional Dirac Fermion physics and for superconducting device applications. In previous work, graphene-superconductor junctions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-10 Naomi Mizuno , Bent Nielsen , Xu Du

We study Josephson junctions based on InSb nanowires with Sn shells. We observe skewed critical current diffraction patterns: the maxima in forward and reverse current bias are at different magnetic flux, with a displacement of 20-40 mT.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 B. Zhang , Z. Li , V. Aguilar , P. Zhang , M. Pendharkar , C. Dempsey , J. S. Lee , S. D. Harrington , S. Tan , J. S. Meyer , M. Houzet , C. J. Palmstrom , S. M. Frolov

Various types of the current-phase relation I(phi) in superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor (SFS) point contacts and planar double-barrier junctions are studied within the quasiclassical theory in the limit of thin diffusive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Golubov , M. Yu. Kupriyanov , Ya. V. Fominov

Josephson junctions fabricated on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators (TI) show a few unusual properties distinct from conventional Josephson junctions. In these devices, the Josephson coupling and the supercurrent are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-01-18 Christopher T. Olund , Erhai Zhao

We study non-equilibrium Josephson effect and phase-dependent conductance in three-terminal diffusive interferometers with short arms. We consider strong proximity effect and investigate an interplay of dissipative and Josephson currents…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-12-03 E. V. Bezuglyi , V. S. Shumeiko , G. Wendin

Josephson junctions with an intrinsic phase shift of pi, so-called pi Josephson junctions, can be realized by a weak link of a d-wave superconductor with an appropriate boundary geometry. A model for the pairing potential of an according…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Gumann , C. Iniotakis , N. Schopohl

We consider two weakly coupled Richardson models to study the formation of a relative phase and the Josephson dynamics between two mesoscopic attractively interacting fermionic systems: our results apply to superconducting properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-08 F. Buccheri , A. Trombettoni

Exotic quantum transport phenomena established in Josephson junctions (JJs) are reflected by a non-sinusoidal current-phase relation (CPR). The solidified approach to measure the CPR is via an asymmetric dc-SQUID with a reference JJ that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-09 Ian Babich , Andrei Kudriashov , Denis Baranov , Vasily Stolyarov

We study a graphene Josephson junction where the inner graphene layer is subjected to spin-orbit coupling by proximity effect. This could be achieved, for example, by growing the graphene layer on top of a transition metal dichalcogenide,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Federico Bonasera , Giuseppe A. Falci , Elisabetta Paladino , Francesco M. D. Pellegrino

Conventional superconductor/insulator/superconductor (SIS) Josephson junctions, devices where two superconductors are separated by a tunnel barrier are technologically important as elements in quantum circuits, particularly with their key…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-19 Venkat Chandrasekhar

We demonstrate an Al superconducting quantum interference device in which the Josephson junctions are implemented through gate-controlled proximitized Cu mesoscopic weak-links. The latter behave analogously to genuine superconducting metals…

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 report on graphene-based Josephson junctions with contacts made from lead. The high transition temperature of this superconductor allows us to observe the supercurrent branch at temperatures up to $\sim 2$ K, at which point we can detect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 I. V. Borzenets , U. C. Coskun , S. J. Jones , G. Finkelstein

In the present work, the current-voltage (I-V) characteristics in a coupled long Josephson junction based on magnesium diboride are studied by establishing a system of equations of phase differences of various inter- and intra-band channels…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-30 S. P. Chimouriya , B. R. Ghimire , J. H. Kim

We investigate the zero-bias behavior of Josephson junctions made of encapsulated graphene boron nitride heterostructures in the long ballistic junction regime. For temperatures down to 2.7K, the junctions appear non-hysteretic with respect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 J. Tang , M. T. Wei , A. Sharma , E. G. Arnault , A. Seredinski , Y. Mehta , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , F. Amet , I. Borzenets

We study theoretically the Josephson effect in junctions based on unconventional superconductors with diffusive barriers, using the quasiclassical Green's function formalism. Generalized boundary conditions at junction interfaces applicable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Yokoyama , Y. Tanaka , A. A. Golubov