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Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems provide a promising platform for hosting unpaired Majorana fermions towards the realisation of fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. In this study, we employ the Keldysh Non-Equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Praveen Sriram , Sandesh S Kalantre , Kaveh Gharavi , Jonathan Baugh , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

The chiral p-wave order parameter in Sr$_\mathsf{2}$RuO$_\mathsf{4}$ would make it a special case amongst the unconventional superconductors. A consequence of this symmetry is the possible existence of superconducting domains of opposite…

We investigate supercurrent interference patterns measured as a function of magnetic field in ballistic graphene Josephson junctions. At high doping, the expected $\Phi_{0}$-periodic "Fraunhofer" pattern is observed, indicating a uniform…

The superconducting diode effect (SDE) has recently been observed in various systems, sparking interest in novel superconducting devices and offering a new platform to probe intrinsic material properties. Josephson junctions with strong…

Recent experiments on Bernal bilayer graphene (BLG) deposited on monolayer WSe$_2$ revealed robust, ultra-clean superconductivity coexisting with sizable induced spin-orbit coupling. Here we propose BLG/WSe$_2$ as a platform to engineer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Ying-Ming Xie , Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Andrea F. Young , Stevan Nadj-Perge , Jason Alicea

In topological insulator edges, the duality between the Zeeman field orientation and the proximitized superconducting phase has been recently exploited to predict a magneto-Josephson effect with a 4$\pi$ periodicity. We revisit this latter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Corneliu Malciu , Leonardo Mazza , Christophe Mora

By scanning with a $30\, \mathrm{keV}$ focused He ion beam (He-FIB) across YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_7$ (YBCO) thin film microbridges, we create Josephson barriers with critical current density $j_\mathrm{c}$ adjustable by irradiation dose $D$. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-30 B. Müller , M. Karrer , F. Limberger , M. Becker , B. Schröppel , C. J. Burkhardt , R. Kleiner , E. Goldobin , D. Koelle

The quantum transport properties of graphene and monolayer $MoS_2$ superconductor heterostructures has been of considerable importance in the recent few years. Layered nature of molybdenum disulfide permits the superconducting correlation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Maryam Khezerlou , Hadi Goudarzi

We theoretically study the coupling of electric charge and spin polarization in an equilibrium and nonequilibrium electric transport across a two dimensional Josephson configuration comprised of disordered surface channels of a three…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-12 I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , Alexander A. Zyuzin , Mohammad Alidoust

We present a theory for the large suppression of the superfluid-density, $\rho_s$, in BaFe$_2$(As$_{1-x}$P$_x$)$_2$ in the vicinity of a putative spin-density wave quantum critical point at a P-doping, $x=x_{c}$. We argue that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-25 Debanjan Chowdhury , J. Orenstein , Subir Sachdev , T. Senthil

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 study numerically the interplay of phase coherence and vortex-glass state in two-dimensional Josephson-junction arrays with average rational values of flux quantum per plaquette $f$ and random dilution of junctions. For $f=1/2$, we find…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Enzo Granato , Daniel Dominguez

We fabricate superconductor-graphene-superconductor Josephson junctions with superconducting regions made of lead (Pb). The critical current through grapehene may be modulated by external magnetic field; the resulting Fraunhofer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 I. V. Borzenets , U. C. Coskun , H. Mebrahtu , G. Finkelstein

Using large scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations of lattice bosonic models, we precisely investigate the effect of weak Josephson tunneling between 2D superfluid or superconducting layers. In the clean case, the Kosterlitz-Thouless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-05 Nicolas Laflorencie

Josephson junctions with iron pnictides open the way for fundamental experiments on superconductivity in these materials and their application in superconducting devices. Here, we present hybrid Josephson junctions with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-11-10 S. Schmidt , S. Döring , F. Schmidl , V. Grosse , P. Seidel , K. Iida , F. Kurth , S. Haindl , I. Mönch , B. Holzapfel

We report on a self-consistent microscopic study of the DC Josephson effect in $SINIS$ junctions where screened dipole layers at the $SN$ interfaces generate a double-barrier multilayered $SIN$ structure. Our approach starts from a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Branislav K. Nikolic , J. K. Freericks , P. Miller

We investigate the Josephson effect in a bilayer graphene flake contacted by two monolayer sheet deposited by superconducting electrodes. It is found that when the electrodes are attached to the different layers of the bilayer, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Babak Zare Rameshti , Malek Zareyan , Ali G. Moghaddam

Topological insulators are characterized by an insulating bulk with a finite band gap and conducting edge or surface states, where charge carriers are protected against backscattering. These states give rise to the quantum spin Hall effect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-23 M. Veldhorst , M. Snelder , M. Hoek , T. Gang , X. L. Wang , V. K. Guduru , U. Zeitler , W. G. v. d. Wiel , A. A. Golubov , H. Hilgenkamp , A. Brinkman

In layered superconductors, Josephson junctions may be formed within the unit cell due to sufficiently low interlayer coupling. These intrinsic Josephson junction (iJJ) systems have attracted considerable interest for their application…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-26 Philip J. W. Moll , Xiyu Zhu , Peng Cheng , Hai-Hu Wen , Bertram Batlogg

True to their unconventional nature, multi-band alkaline Fe-selenides and, more recently, the heavy-fermion CeCu$_{2}$Si$_{2}$ have shown signatures of fully-gapped but sign-changing superconductivity (SC). A two-orbital pairing state,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-13 Emilian M. Nica , Qimiao Si , Onur Erten