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Electronic transport through nanostructures is greatly affected by the presence of superconducting leads. If the interface between the nanostructure and the superconductors is sufficiently transparent, a dissipationless current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Jorden A. van Dam , Leo P. Kouwenhoven

We show that some of the Josephson couplings of junctions arranged to form an inhomogeneous network undergo a non-perturbative renormalization provided that the network's connectivity is pertinently chosen. As a result, the zero-voltage…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Sodano , A. Trombettoni , P. Silvestrini , R. Russo , B. Ruggiero

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

We study fractional Josephson effect in a particle-number conserving system consisting of a quasi-one-dimensional superconductor coupled to a nanowire or an edge carrying $e/m$ fractional charge excitations with $m$ being an odd integer. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Meng Cheng , Roman M. Lutchyn

We report on the fabrication and measurements of a superconducting junction of a single-crystalline Au nanowire, connected to Al electrodes. Current-Voltage characteristic curve shows clear supercurrent branch below the superconducting…

We study superconducting-normal-superconducting (SNS) Josephson junctions in one-dimensional topological superconductors which support more than one Majorana end mode. The variation of the energy spectrum with the superconducting phase is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Doru Sticlet , Cristina Bena , Pascal Simon

A Josephson junction (JJ) is a key device in the development of superconducting circuits, wherein a supercurrent in the JJ is controlled by the phase difference between the two superconducting electrodes. Recently, it has been shown that…

We discuss transport properties of fully spin-polarized triplet superconductors, where only electrons of one spin component (along a certain axis) are paired. Due to the structure of the order parameter space, wherein phase and spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-20 Eyal Cornfeld , Mark S. Rudner , Erez Berg

We use a Ge-Si core-shell nanowire to realise a Josephson field-effect transistor with highly transparent contacts to superconducting leads. By changing the electric field we gain access to two distinct regimes not combined before in a…

We consider a one-dimensional Josephson junction array, in the regime where the junction charging energy is much greater than the charging energy of the superconducting islands. In this regime we critically reexamine the continuum limit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Gurarie , A. M. Tsvelik

The ability to non-dissipatively tune the Josephson coupling energy of Josephson junctions is a useful tool in frequency-tunable qubits. This is typically done by threading magnetic flux through two junctions connected in a loop, a geometry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Maxwell Wisne , Venkat Chandrasekhar

Extended defects are known to strongly affect nanoscale superconductors. Here we report the properties of superconducting nanoribbons with a constriction formed between two adjacent step-edges, by solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-04-23 L. Flammia , L. -F. Zhang , L. Covaci , A. Perali , M. V. Milošević

We review progress in the development and applications of superconducting metamaterials. The review is organized in terms of several distinct advantages and unique properties brought to the metamaterials field by superconductivity. These…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-05-30 Philipp Jung , Alexey V. Ustinov , Steven M. Anlage

We study diffusive magnetic Josephson junctions with four superconducting terminals in the weak proximity limit where the leads are arranged in cross form. Employing the linearized Keldysh-Usadel technique, the anomalous Green's function…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-04-23 Mohammad Alidoust , Granville Sewell , Jacob Linder

We propose a new type of Josephson junction formed by two superconductors close to the superconductor-Mott-insulator transition, one of which is doped with holes and the other is doped with electrons. A self-organized Mott-insulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-08-23 Jiangping Hu , Congjun Wu , Xi Dai

The Josephson Effect provides a primary signature of single spin superconductivity (SSS), the as yet unobserved superconducting state which was proposed recently as a low temperature phase of half-metallic antiferromagnets. These materials…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Robert E. Rudd , Warren E. Pickett

A superconducting loop stores persistent current without any ohmic loss, making it an ideal platform for energy efficient memories. Conventional superconducting memories use an architecture based on Josephson junctions (JJs) and have…

A superconductor-semiconducting nanowire-superconductor heterostructure in the presence of spin orbit coupling and magnetic field can support a supercurrent even in the absence of phase difference between the superconducting electrodes. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Campagnano , P. Lucignano , D. Giuliano , A. Tagliacozzo

A semiconducting nanowire proximitized by an $s$-wave superconductor can be tuned into a topological state by an applied magnetic field. This quantum phase transition is marked by the emergence of Majorana zero modes at the ends of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Chaitanya Murthy , Vladislav D. Kurilovich , Pavel D. Kurilovich , Bernard van Heck , Leonid I. Glazman , Chetan Nayak

The Josephson junction is the fundamental nonlinear building block of superconducting quantum technologies. Its macroscopic quantum tunneling physics underpins superconducting quantum computing, sensing, and communication, but scaling these…