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Bijunctions are three-terminal Josephson junctions where three superconductors are connected by a single weak link made of a metallic region or of quantum dots. Biasing two of the superconductors with commensurate voltages yields Andreev…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 R. Mélin , D. Feinberg , H. Courtois , C. Padurariu , A. Pfeffer , J. E. Duvauchelle , F. Lefloch , T. Jonckheere , J. Rech , T. Martin , B. Douçot

An all-superconducting bijunction consists of a central superconductor contacted to two lateral superconductors, such that non-local crossed Andreev reflection is operating. Then new correlated transport channels for the Cooper pairs appear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-05 T. Jonckheere , J. Rech , T. Martin , B. Douçot , D. Feinberg , R. Mélin

A Josephson bijunction made of three superconductors connected by a quantum dot is considered in the regime where the dot carries a magnetic moment. In the range of parameters where such a dot, if inserted in a two-terminal Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Denis Feinberg , Carlos Balseiro

We report an observation of a new, non dissipative and non local supercurrent, carried by quartets; each consisting of four entangled electrons. The supercurrent is a result of a novel Andreev bound state (ABS), formed among three…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Yonatan Cohen , Yuval Ronen , Jung-Hyun Kang , Moty Heiblum , Denis Feinberg , Régis Mélin , Hadas Shtrikman

We propose a new qubit consisting of a superconducting ring with two ordinary zero junctions and one ferromagnetic pi junction. In the system, two degenerate stable states appear in the phase space without an external magnetic field because…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Yamashita , S. Takahashi , S. Maekawa

We present a theory of transport through interacting quantum dots coupled to normal and superconducting leads in the limit of weak tunnel coupling. A Josephson current between two superconducting leads, carried by first-order tunnel…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-09-03 Marco G. Pala , Michele Governale , Jürgen König

Multiterminal superconducting junctions have revitalized the investigation of the Josephson effect. One of the most interesting aspects of these hybrid systems is the occurrence of multi-Cooper pair tunneling processes that have no analog…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-01 Miriam Rike Ebert , David Christian Ohnmacht , Wolfgang Belzig , Juan Carlos Cuevas

Mesoscopic multi-terminal Josephson junctions are novel devices that provide weak coupling between several bulk superconductors through a common normal layer. Because of the nonlocal coupling of the superconducting banks, a current flow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. H. S. Amin , A. N. Omelyanchouk , A. Blais , A. Maassen van den Brink , G. Rose , T. Duty , A. M. Zagoskin

Multiterminal Josephson junctions offer a powerful playground for exploring exotic superconducting and topological phenomena beyond the reach of conventional two-terminal devices. In this work, we present the direct spectroscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Asmaul Smitha Rashid , Le Yi , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Nitin Samarth , Régis Mélin , Morteza Kayyalha

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 study a phase-tunable four-terminal Josephson junction formed in an InSbAs two-dimensional electron gas proximitized by aluminum. By embedding the two pairs of junction terminals in asymmetric DC SQUIDs we can control the superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Christian G. Prosko , Wietze D. Huisman , Ivan Kulesh , Di Xiao , Candice Thomas , Michael J. Manfra , Srijit Goswami

We theoretically study coherent multiple Andreev reflections in a biased three-terminal Josephson junction. We demonstrate that the direct current flowing through the junction consists of supercurrent components when the bias voltages are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 M. P. Nowak , M. Wimmer , A. R. Akhmerov

We study the charge transport and thermoelectric properties of the junction, comprising double quantum dot embedded in T-shaped geometry on the interface between two normal/ferromagnetic electrodes and superconducting lead. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 G. Górski , K. Kucab , T. Domański

The non-dissipative non-linearity of a Josephson junction converts macroscopic superconducting circuits into artificial atoms, enabling some of the best controlled quantum bits (qubits) today. Three fundamental types of superconducting…

We investigate non-equilibrium transport through interacting superconducting nanojunctions using a Liouville space approach. The formalism allows us to study finite gap effects, and to account for both quasiparticle and Cooper pair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Jordi Picó-Cortés , Gloria Platero , Andrea Donarini , Milena Grifoni

In recent years, various classes of systems were proposed to realize topological states of matter. One of them are multiterminal Josephson junctions where topological Andreev bound states are constructed in the synthetic space of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Lev Teshler , Hannes Weisbrich , Jonathan Sturm , Raffael L. Klees , Gianluca Rastelli , Wolfgang Belzig

A theory is offered for the ballistic 4-terminal Josephson junction. The studied system consists of a mesoscopic two-dimensional normal rectangular layer which is attached in each side to the bulk superconducting banks (terminals). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Malek Zareyan , A. N. Omelyanchouk

We explore superconducting quantum circuits where several leads are simultaneously connected beyond the tunneling regime, such that the fermionic structure of Andreev bound states in the resulting multiterminal Josephson junction influences…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 F. J. Matute-Cañadas , L. Tosi , A. Levy Yeyati

We consider transport through a Josephson junction consisting of a conventional s-wave superconductor coupled via a double quantum dot to a noncentrosymmetric superconductor with both, singlet and triplet pairing. We calculate the Andreev…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-07-13 Björn Sothmann , Rakesh P. Tiwari

The superconducting phase qubit combines Josephson junctions into superconducting loops and defines one of the promising solid state device implementations for quantum computing. While conventional designs are based on magnetically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Blatter , V. B. Geshkenbein , L. Ioffe
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