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Topological superconductors can support localized Majorana states at their boundaries. These quasi-particle excitations have non-Abelian statistics that can be used to encode and manipulate quantum information in a topologically protected…

Topological protection is an attractive signature in both fundamental and applied researches because it provides an exotic and robust state. Multi-terminal Josephson junctions have recently been studied extensively owing to the emergence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Kento Takemura , Tomohiro Yokoyama

Hybrid Josephson junctions realized on a two-dimensional electron gas are considered promising candidates for developing topological elements that are easily controllable and scalable. Here, we theoretically study the possibility of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 D. Kuiri , M. P. Nowak

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer a unique platform to study unconventional superconductivity, owing to the presence of strong spin-orbit coupling and a remarkable stability to an in-plane magnetic field. A recent study found…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-29 Ranjani Seshadri , Maxim Khodas , Dganit Meidan

Planar Josephson junctions (JJs) have emerged as a promising platform for the realization of topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes. To obtain robust quasi one-dimensional (1D) topological superconducting states using planar…

We find a series of topological phase transitions in a half-metal/superconductor heterostructure, by tuning the direction of the magnetization of the half-metal film. These include transitions between a topological superconducting phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-18 Lei Hao , C. S. Ting

We study all the possible different two terminal configurations of Josephson junctions containing wires of time-reversal invariant topological superconductors (TRITOPS) and ordinary superconductors, including combinations with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Liliana Arrachea , Alberto Camjayi , Armando A. Aligia , Leonel Gruñeiro

Two-dimensional arrays of superconductors separated by normal metallic regions exhibit rich phenomenology and a high degree of controllability. We establish such systems as platforms for topological phases of matter, and in particular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Omri Lesser , Ady Stern , Yuval Oreg

We study the emergent band topology of subgap Andreev bound states in the three-terminal Josephson junctions. We scrutinize the symmetry constraints of the scattering matrix in the normal region connecting superconducting leads that enable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Hong-Yi Xie , Maxim G. Vavilov , Alex Levchenko

Andreev bound states trapped in a multi-terminal Josephson junction (JJ) can be assigned a synthetic band topology owing to their periodic dependence on the Josephson phase bias. We demonstrate that the BdG symmetry adds a twist to this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Aabir Mukhopadhyay , Udit Khanna , Sourin Das

We study Josephson junctions based on second-order topological superconductors (SOTSs) which can be realized in quantum spin Hall insulators with large inverted gap in proximity to unconventional superconductors. We find that tuning the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-22 Song-Bo Zhang , Björn Trauzettel

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

Multi-terminal Josephson junction with three or more superconductors is an attractive quantum system to emerge and tune exotic electronic states. In four terminal Josephson junctions, the Weyl physics, namely topologically protected zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Kento Takemura , Mikio Eto , Tomohiro Yokoyama

In this work we present a detailed theoretical analysis for the spectral properties of Andreev bound states in the multiterminal Josephson junctions by employing a symmetry-constrained scattering matrix approach. We find that in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-13 Hong-Yi Xie , Jaglul Hasan , Alex Levchenko

We introduce Weyl Josephson circuits: small Josephson junction circuits that simulate Weyl band structures. We first formulate a general approach to design circuits that are analogous to Bloch Hamiltonians of a desired dimensionality and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Valla Fatemi , Anton R. Akhmerov , Landry Bretheau

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

Planar Josephson junctions provide a platform to host topological superconductivity which, through manipulating Majorana bound states (MBS), could enable fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, what constitutes experimental signatures of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Barış Pekerten , David Brandão , Bassel Heiba Elfeky , Tong Zhou , Jong E. Han , Javad Shabani , Igor Žutić

We consider a finite-size topological Josephson junction formed at the edge of a two-dimensional topological insulator in proximity to conventional superconductors and study the impact of Cooper pair symmetries on the electron transport. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-13 Jorge Cayao , Paramita Dutta , Pablo Burset , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Multiterminal Josephson junctions have recently been proposed as a route to artificially mimic topological matter with the distinct advantage that its properties can be controlled via the superconducting phase difference, giving rise to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-01 Morten Amundsen , Jabir Ali Ouassou , Jacob Linder

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