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We study a superconducting quantum point contact made of a narrow In$_{0.75}% $Ga$_{0.25}$As channel with Nb proximity electrodes. The narrow channel is formed in a gate-fitted constriction of InGaAs/InAlAs/InP heterostructure hosting a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 Hiroshi Irie , Yuichi Harada , Hiroki Sugiyama , Tatsushi Akazaki

Graphene is a relatively new material (2004) made of atomic layers of carbon arranged in a honeycomb lattice. Josephson junction devices are made from graphene by depositing two parallel superconducting leads on a graphene flake. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Joseph G. Lambert , Steven Carabello , Roberto C. Ramos

Graphene on silicon carbide (SiC) has proved to be highly successful in Hall conductance quantization for its homogeneity at the centimetre scale. Robust Josephson coupling has been measured in co-planar diffusive Al/monololayer graphene/Al…

We report electronic transport measurements of graphene contacted by NbTiN electrodes, which at low temperature remain superconducting up to at least 11 Tesla. In devices with a single superconducting contact, we find a more than twofold…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 Mihai Popinciuc , Victor E. Calado , Xing L. Liu , Anton R. Akhmerov , Teun M. Klapwijk , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen

We propose a hybrid quantum device based on the graphene Josephson junctions, where the vibrational degrees of freedom of a graphene membrane couple to the superconducting circuits. The flexural mode-controlled tunneling of the Cooper pairs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Zhen-Yang Peng , Mehdi Abdi

We investigate the Josephson effect in the graphene nanoribbons of length $L$ smaller than the superconducting coherence length and an arbitrary width $W$. We find that in contrast to an ordinary superconducting quantum point contact (SQPC)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-24 Ali G. Moghaddam , Malek Zareyan

Bilayer graphene encapsulated in tungsten diselenide can host a weak topological phase with pairs of helical edge states. The electrical tunability of this phase makes it an ideal platform to investigate unique topological effects at zero…

We investigate the superconducting proximity effect through graphene in the long diffusive junction limit, at low and high magnetic field. The interface quality and sample phase coherence lead to a zero resistance state at low temperature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Katsuyoshi Komatsu , Chuan Li , S. Autier-Laurent , H. Bouchiat , S. Gueron

Using highly efficient simulations of the tight-binding Bogoliubov-de Gennes model we solved self-consistently for the pair correlation and the Josephson current in a Superconducting-Bilayer graphene-Superconducting Josephson junction.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-01-20 W. A. Muñoz , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters

We demonstrate enhanced robustness of the supercurrent through graphene-based Josephson junctions in which strong spin-orbit interactions (SOIs) are induced. We compare the persistence of a supercurrent at high magnetic fields between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-06 T. Wakamura , N. J. Wu , A. D. Chepelianskii , S. Guéron , M. Och , M. Ferrier , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , C. Mattevi , H. Bouchiat

The interplay between quantum Hall states and Cooper pairs is usually hindered by the suppression of the superconducting state due to the strong magnetic fields needed to observe the quantum Hall effect. From this point of view graphene is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-03 Lucian Covaci , Francois Peeters

We investigate mesoscopic Josephson junction arrays created by patterning superconducting disks on monolayer graphene, concentrating on the high-$T/T_c$ regime of these devices and the phenomena which contribute to the superconducting glass…

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

Josephson junctions (JJ) are a fundamental component of microwave quantum circuits, such as tunable cavities, qubits and parametric amplifiers. Recently developed encapsulated graphene JJs, with supercurrents extending over micron distance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Felix E. Schmidt , Mark D. Jenkins , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Gary A. Steele

The two-dimensional nature of graphene makes it an ideal platform to explore proximity-induced unconventional planar superconductivity and the possibility of topological superconductivity. Using Green's functions techniques, we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Oscar E. Casas , Shirley Gómez Páez , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Pablo Burset , William J. Herrera

The superior intrinsic properties of graphene have been a key research focus for the past few years. However, external components, such as metallic contacts, serve not only as essential probing elements, but also give rise to an effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Yanqing Wu , Vasili Perebeinos , Yu-ming Lin , Tony Low , Fengnian Xia , Phaedon Avouris

We investigate the critical current, $I_C$, of ballistic Josephson junctions made of encapsulated graphene/boron-nitride heterostructures. We observe a crossover from the short to the long junction regimes as the length of the device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 I. V. Borzenets , F. Amet , C. T. Ke , A. W. Draelos , M. T. Wei , A. Seredinski , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Y. Bomze , M. Yamamoto , S. Tarucha , G Finkelstein

Unlike for tunneling Josephson junctions, for which the current-phase relation is given by the sine function, with the critical current ($I_c$) and normal-state resistance ($R_N$) following the relation $I_cR_N=(\pi/2)\,\Delta_0/e$ (where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Adam Rycerz

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

When a Josephson junction array is built with hybrid superconductor/metal/superconductor junctions, a quantum phase transition from a superconducting to a two-dimensional (2D) metallic ground state is predicted to happen upon increasing the…