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We study Josephson junctions between superconductors connected through the helical edge states of a two-dimensional topological insulator in the presence of a magnetic barrier. As the equilibrium Andreev bound states of the junction are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Driss M. Badiane , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer

In this work we investigate the supercurrent in a hybrid topological Josephson junction consisting of two planes of topological insulator (TI) in a specific configuration, which allows both local (LAR) and crossed (CAR) Andreev processes at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Gianmichele Blasi , Fabio Taddei , Vittorio Giovannetti , Alessandro Braggio

Topological superconductivity holds promise for fault-tolerant quantum computing. While planar Josephson junctions are attractive candidates to realize this exotic state, direct phase-measurements as the fingerprint of the topological…

We calculate the electrical currents through a superconductor - insulator - superconductor junction which is also weakly coupled to a normal metal side probe. The voltage $V$ applied to the normal metal terminal controls the occupation of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 H. Tolga Ilhan , H. Volkan Demir , Philip F. Bagwell

We consider superconducting nanowire proximity coupled to superconductor / ferromagnet / superconductor junction, where the magnetization penetrates into superconducting segment in nanowire decaying as $\sim\exp[-\frac{\mid n \mid}{\xi}]$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-20 Hiromi Ebisu , Bo Lu , Katsuhisa Taguchi , Alexander A. Golubov , Yukio Tanaka

We report an experimental study on the tuning of supercurrent in a ballistic graphene-based Josephson junction by applying a control voltage to a transverse normal channel. In this four-terminal geometry, the control voltage changes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 P. Pandey , D. Beckmann , R. Danneau

Epitaxially grown, high quality semiconductor InSb nanowires are emerging material systems for the development of high performance nanoelectronics and quantum information processing and communication devices, and for the studies of new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 H. A. Nilsson , P. Samuelsson , P. Caroff , H. Q. Xu

The charge transport has been analyzed theoretically across a T-shaped and series-configured double quantum dots Josephson junction by implementing the Slave Boson mean field approximation at an infinite-U limit. It has been shown that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-21 Bhupendra Kumar , Sachin Verma , Tanuj Chamoli , Ajay

We study chiral interface Andreev bound states and their influence on the Josephson current between clean superconductors. Possible examples are superconducting Sr2RuO4 and the B-phase of the heavy-fermion superconductor UPt3. We show that,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu. S. Barash , A. M. Bobkov , M. Fogelstrom

Graphene-based Josephson junctions played an important role in various quantum devices from their inception. Magnetic tunnel junctions or vertical devices were also made out of graphene by exposing the graphene layer to localised pattern of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-25 Partha Sarathi Banerjee , Rahul Marathe , Sankalpa Ghosh

Multiterminal Josephson junctions are a promising platform to host synthetic topological phases of matter and Floquet states. However, the energy scales governing topological protection in these devices are on the order of the spacing…

The Josephson diode effect, where the critical current magnitude depends on its direction, arises when both time-reversal and inversion symmetries are broken - often achieved by a combination of spin-orbit interaction and applied magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Gerrit Behner , Abdur Rehman Jalil , Detlev Grützmacher , Thomas Schäpers

We report on the observation of gate-tunable proximity-induced superconductivity and multiple Andreev reflections (MAR) in a bulk-insulating BiSbTeSe$_2$ topological insulator nanoribbon (TINR) Josephson junction (JJ) with superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Luis A. Jauregui , Morteza Kayyalha , Aleksander Kazakov , Ireneusz Miotkowski , Leonid P. Rokhinson , Yong P. Chen

We consider a Josephson junction built with the two-dimensional semi-Dirac semimetal, which features a hybrid of linear and quadratic dispersion around a nodal point. We model the weak link between the two superconducting regions by a Dirac…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-04-10 Ipsita Mandal

The Josephson effect is a fundamental quantum phenomenon consisting in the appearance of a dissipationless supercurrent in a weak link between two superconducting (S) electrodes. While the mechanism leading to the Josephson effect is quite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-13 J. Paajaste , E. Strambini , M. Amado , S. Roddaro , P. San-Jose , R. Aguado , F. S. Bergeret , D. Ercolani , L. Sorba , F. Giazotto

Multiply connected electronic networks threaded by flux tubes have been proposed as a platform for adiabatic quantum transport and topological states. Multi-terminal Josephson junction (MTJJ) has been suggested as a pathway to realize this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Woochan Jung , Seyoung Jin , Sein Park , Seung-Hyun Shin , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Gil Young Cho , Gil-Ho Lee

We investigate the topological properties of a Josephson junction obtained by constraining a two-dimensional electron gas at oxide interface to form a quasi-1D conductor. We reveal an anomalous critical current behaviour with a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Alfonso Maiellaro , Jacopo Settino , Claudio Guarcello , Francesco Romeo , Roberta Citro

The interplay between topological protection and dissipation constitutes a critical frontier in the realization of hybrid quantum devices. Here, we investigate the transport signatures in a dissipative topological insulator-based Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-03 Ardamon Sten , Paramita Dutta , Sudeep Kumar Ghosh

Josephson currents are carried by sharp Andreev states within the superconducting energy gap. We theoretically study the electronic transport of a magnetically tunable nanoscale junction consisting of a quantum dot connected to two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-11 P. Stadler , C. Holmqvist , W. Belzig

A hallmark of topological superconductivity is the non-Abelian statistics of Majorana bound states (MBS), its chargeless zero-energy emergent quasiparticles. The resulting fractionalization of a single electron, stored nonlocally as a two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Tong Zhou , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , Kasra Sardashti , Jong E. Han , Alex Matos-Abiague , Javad Shabani , Igor Zutic