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We uncover hierarchy of topological phases within the synthetic Brillouin zone of a three-terminal Josephson junction's (3-TJJ's) Bogoliubov-de Gennes spectrum. We demonstrate that the above-gap continuum realizes a Chern insulator phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Subhadeep Chakraborty , Aabir Mukhopadhyay , Udit Khanna , Sourin Das

Topological physics and strong electron-electron correlations in quantum materials are typically studied independently. However, there have been rapid recent developments in quantum materials in which topological phase transitions emerge…

We investigate the proximity effect in junctions between $N=3$ superconductors under commensurate voltage bias. The bias is chosen to highlight the role of transport processes that exchange multiple Cooper pairs coherently between more than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-01 Ciprian Padurariu , Thibaut Jonckheere , Jérôme Rech , Thierry Martin , Denis Feinberg

We study a non-Hermitian, multiterminal superconducting-normal system in order to identify experimental signatures of exceptional points. We focus on a minimal setting with a single spinful level, spin-dependent normal leads, and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Oliver Solow , Karsten Flensberg

Josephson junctions are key elements in superconducting electronics. The most common type is the overlap (sandwich-type) junction, formed by vertically stacking two superconducting layers. In contrast, planar junctions are fabricated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-14 Vladimir M. Krasnov

We theoretically investigate Josephson junctions with a phase shift of $\pi$ in various proximity induced one-dimensional superconductor models. One of the salient experimental signatures of topological superconductors, namely the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-28 Christian Spånslätt , Eddy Ardonne , Jan Carl Budich , Thors Hans Hansson

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 analyze the properties of flat-band superconductor junctions that behave differently from ordinary junctions containing only metals with Fermi surfaces. In particular, we show how in the tunneling limit the critical Josephson current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-08 P. Virtanen , R. P. S. Penttilä , P. Törmä , A. Díez-Carlón , D. K. Efetov , T. T. Heikkilä

The extension of the topological classification of band insulators to topological semimetals gave way to the topology classes of Dirac, Weyl, and nodal line semimetals with their unique Fermi arc and drum head boundary modes. Similarly,…

We investigate the Josephson effect in TNT and NTN junctions, consisting of topological (T) and normal (N) phases of semiconductor-superconductor 1D heterostructures in the presence of a Zeeman field. A key feature of our setup is that, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-10 Panagiotis Kotetes , Alexander Shnirman , Gerd Schön

Over the last decade, the development of Josephson devices based on van der Waals (vdW) materials has advanced rapidly, representing a paradigm shift driven by the advent of 2D materials. The diverse vdW materials library, combined with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Joydip Sarkar , Ayshi Mukherjee , Amit Basu , Ritajit Kundu , Arijit Kundu , Mandar M. Deshmukh

We investigate superconducting quantum interference devices consisting of two highly transmissive Josephson junctions coupled by a superconducting loop, all defined in an epitaxial InAs/Al heterostructure. A novel device design allows for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 F. Nichele , E. Portolés , A. Fornieri , A. M. Whiticar , A. C. C. Drachmann , T. Wang , G. C. Gardner , C. Thomas , A. T. Hatke , M. J. Manfra , C. M. Marcus

We consider a two-dimensional monolayer MoS2-based Josephson junction which is composed by an intermediate semiconductor flake and the semi-infinite topological and non-topological superconductor leads and study its quantum transport…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-01 Hamidreza Simchi

We theoretically investigate the crystalline anisotropy of topological phase transitions in phase-controlled planar Josephson junctions (JJs) subject to spin-orbit coupling and in-plane magnetic fields. It is shown how topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-04 Joseph D. Pakizer , Benedikt Scharf , Alex Matos-Abiague

The interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism has long been pursued as a route to unconventional Josephson effects, yet suitable material platforms remain limited. Here we report Josephson junctions based on epitaxial…

Multiterminal Josephson junctions have aroused considerable theoretical interest recently and numerous works aim at putting the predictions of correlations among Coopers (i.e. the so-called quartets) and simulation of topological matter to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-09 Régis Mélin

We investigate the low-energy theory of a one-dimensional finite capacitance topological Josephson junction. Charge fluctuations across the junction couple to resonant microwave fields and can be used to probe microscopic excitations such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-13 Konstantin Yavilberg , Eran Ginossar , Eytan Grosfeld

In this work we show that Rashba-based topological superconductor nanowires, where the spin-orbit coupling may change its sign, support three topological phases protected by chiral symmetry. When a superconducting phase gradient is applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Teemu Ojanen

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

We theoretically discuss the emergence of fractional Shapiro steps in a Josephson junction created by confining a two-dimensional electron gas at an oxide interface. This phenomenon is induced by an alternating current of proper amplitude…

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