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Superconductivity and ferromagnetism are antagonistic forms of order, and rarely coexist. Many interesting new phenomena occur, however, in hybrid superconducting/ferromagnetic systems. For example, a Josephson junction containing a…

We investigate thermal and non-local electrical transport in four-terminal Josephson junctions formed by a normal region coupled to two transverse chiral superconducting leads, supporting phases characterized by Chern numbers ${\cal…

We study the competition of disorder and superconductivity for a one-dimensional p-wave superconductor in incommensurate potentials. With the increase in the strength of the incommensurate potential, the system undergoes a transition from a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-20 Xiaoming Cai , Li-Jun Lang , Shu Chen , Yupeng Wang

Josephson junctions (JJ) are essential for superconducting quantum technologies and searches of self-conjugate quasiparticles, pivotal for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Measuring the current-phase relation (CPR) in JJ based on…

We study the Josephson effect in the multiterminal junction of topological superconductors. We use the symmetry-constrained scattering matrix approach to derive band dispersions of emergent sub-gap Andreev bound states in a multidimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-03 Hong-Yi Xie , Alex Levchenko

We consider an annular superconductor-insulator-superconductor Josephson-junction, with the insulator being a double layer of electron and holes at Abelian fractional quantum Hall states of identical fillings. When the two superconductors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-02 Eran Sagi , Yuval Oreg , Ady Stern , Bertrand I. Halperin

We theoretically study the superconducting proximity effect in a quantum dot coupled to two superconducting leads when the intradot interaction between electrons is made attractive. Because of the superconducting proximity effect, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-12-24 Yu-Chun Hsu , Wu-Jing Chen , Chien-Te Wu

We consider a Floquet triple-layer setup composed of a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interactions, proximity coupled to an s-wave superconductor and to a ferromagnet driven at resonance. The ferromagnetic layer generates a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Kirill Plekhanov , Manisha Thakurathi , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We propose a Josephson junction setup based on a topological insulator (TI) thin film to detect Majorana states, which exploits the unique helical and extended nature of the TI surface state. When the magnetic flux through the junction is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 Andrew C. Potter , Liang Fu

We investigate Josephson junctions on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator in planar, step, and edge geometries. The elliptical nature of the Dirac cone representing the side surface states of the topological insulator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-11 Jennifer Nussbaum , Thomas L. Schmidt , Christoph Bruder , Rakesh P. Tiwari

We investigate the fidelity susceptibility (FS) of a two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled (SOC) Fermi superfluid and the topological phase transition driven by a Zeeman field in the perspective of its ground-state wave-function. Without…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-17 Xuebing Luo , Kezhao Zhou , Wuming Liu , Zhaoxin Liang , Zhidong Zhang

Superconducting systems that simultaneously lack space-inversion and time-reversal symmetries have recently been the subject of a flurry of experimental and theoretical research activities. Their ability to carry supercurrents with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-25 Andreas Costa , Jaroslav Fabian , Denis Kochan

The transport properties of a topological Josephson junction fabricated from a magnetically doped topological insulator (TI) were investigated. The conductance spectra of the Nb/Fe-Bi$_2$Te$_2$Se/Nb junction below 1 K showed an unusual…

Josephson junctions made of conventional superconductors display Fraunhofer-like oscillations of the critical current as a function of the threaded magnetic flux. When the superconductors are deposited on the surface of a three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Omri Lesser , Joon Young Park , Yuval Ronen , Thomas Werkmeister , Philip Kim , Yuval Oreg

We propose a theoretical model describing a Josephson junction featuring a magnetically textured barrier within two-dimensional (2D) $p$-wave superconductor, considering both $p_x + p_y$ and $p_x + ip_y$ type pairing symmetries. Our study…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-29 Minakshi Subhadarshini , Amartya Pal , Pritam Chatterjee , Arijit Saha

We show that a constriction-type Josephson junction realized by an epitactic thin film of a d-wave superconductor with an appropriate boundary geometry exhibits intrinsic phase differences between 0 and pi depending on geometric parameters…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Gumann , N. Schopohl

Topological insulator (TI) nanowires in proximity with conventional superconductors have been proposed as a tunable platform to realize topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes (MZM). The tuning is done using an axial magnetic…

The two-dimensional nature of graphene Josephson junctions offers the possibility of creating effective superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junctions with tunable Zeeman splitting caused by an in-plane magnetic field. Such junctions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-30 Eirik Holm Fyhn , Morten Amundsen , Ayelet Zalic , Tom Dvir , Hadar Steinberg , Jacob Linder

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…

The magnetic state of a quantum dot attached to superconducting leads is experimentally shown to be controlled by the superconducting phase difference across the dot. This is done by probing the relation between the Josephson current and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 R. Delagrange , D. J. Luitz , R. Weil , A. Kasumov , V. Meden , H. Bouchiat , R. Deblock