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Josephson junctions (JJs) with non-sinusoidal current-phase relations (CPRs) have gathered increasing attention, partly due to growing interest in topological 2D materials. Understanding how CPR and inhomogeneities in JJs influence their…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-08 R. A. Hovhannisyan

We study the current-phase relation (CPR) of an InSb-Al nanowire Josephson junction in parallel magnetic fields up to $700$\,mT. At high magnetic fields and in narrow voltage intervals of a gate under the junction, the CPR exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Vukan Levajac , Hristo Barakov , Grzegorz P. Mazur , Nick van Loo , Leo P. Kouwenhoven , Yuli V. Nazarov , Ji-Yin Wang

Controlling the current-phase relation (CPR) of Josephson elements is essential for tailoring the eigenstates of superconducting qubits, tuning the properties of parametric amplifiers, and designing nonreciprocal superconducting devices.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 L. Banszerus , C. W. Andersson , W. Marshall , T. Lindemann , M. J. Manfra , C. M. Marcus , S. Vaitiekėnas

The current-phase relation (CPR) for asymmetric 45 degree Josephson junctions between two d-wave superconductors has been predicted to exhibit an anomalous periodicity. We have used the single-junction interferometer to investigate the CPR…

Superconductor/normal conductor/superconductor (SNS) Josephson junctions with highly transparent interfaces are predicted to show significant deviations from sinusoidal supercurrent-phase relationships (CPR) at low temperatures. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Ebel , C. Busch , U. Merkt , M. Grajcar , T. Plecenik , E. Il'ichev

The current-phase relation (CPR) for a short Josephson junction placed in the nonuniform field of a small ferromagnetic particle is studied. The effect of the particle produced on the junction appears to be strong due to the formation of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-14 A. V. Samokhvalov

Short ballistic graphene Josephson junctions sustain superconducting current with a non-sinusoidal current-phase relation up to a critical current threshold. The current-phase relation, arising from proximitized superconductivity, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-09 Francesco M. D. Pellegrino , Giuseppe Falci , Elisabetta Paladino

We propose a scheme to measure both the current-phase relation and differential conductance $dI/dV$ of a superconducting junction, in the normal and the superconducting states. This is done using a dc Superconducting Quantum Interference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-21 J. Basset , R. Delagrange , R. Weil , A. Kasumov , H. Bouchiat , R. Deblock

We have probed the current-phase relation of an atomic contact placed with a tunnel junction in a small superconducting loop. The measurements are in quantitative agreement with the predictions of a resistively shunted SQUID model in which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 M. L. Della Rocca , M. Chauvin , B. Huard , H. Pothier , D. Esteve , C. Urbina

Extracting the current-phase relationship (CPR) of a single superconducting junction is challenging in practice and traditionally involves embedding the junction in a larger superconducting circuit containing SQUIDs and/or resonators.…

We calculate the phase, the temperature and the junction length dependence of the supercurrent for ballistic graphene Josephson-junctions. For low temperatures we find non-sinusoidal dependence of the supercurrent on the superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-10-13 I. Hagymási , A. Kormányos , J. Cserti

We study nanodevices based on ultrathin superconducting nanowires connected in parallel to form nanowire SQUIDs. The function of the critical current versus magnetic field, $I_{C}(B)$, is multivalued, asymmetric and its maxima and minima…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-20 Andrew Murphy , Alexey Bezryadin

Gate-tunable Josephson junctions embedded in a microwave environment provide a promising platform to in-situ engineer and optimize novel superconducting quantum circuits. The key quantity for the circuit design is the phase-dependent…

Conventional superconductor/insulator/superconductor (SIS) Josephson junctions, devices where two superconductors are separated by a tunnel barrier are technologically important as elements in quantum circuits, particularly with their key…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-19 Venkat Chandrasekhar

In superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs), the superconducting diode effect may be generated by interference of multiple harmonic components in the current-phase relationships (CPRs) of different branches forming SQUID loops.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-16 Wyatt Gibbons , Teng Zhang , Kevin Barrow , Tyler Lindemann , Jukka I. Väyrynen , Michael J. Manfra

Josephson junctions (JJ) are a fundamental component of microwave quantum circuits, such as tunable cavities, qubits and parametric amplifiers. Recently developed encapsulated graphene JJs, with supercurrents extending over micron distance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Felix E. Schmidt , Mark D. Jenkins , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Gary A. Steele

We investigate the current-phase-relation (CPR) of long diffusive superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) Josephson junctions in thermodynamic equilibrium and under microwave irradiation. While in equilibrium good agreement with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-24 M. Fuechsle , J. Bentner , D. A. Ryndyk , M. Reinwald , W. Wegscheider , C. Strunk

Hybrid graphene-superconductor devices have attracted much attention since the early days of graphene research. So far, these studies have been limited to the case of diffusive transport through graphene with poorly defined and modest…

Superconducting circuits with nonlinear elements such as Josephson tunnel junctions or kinetic inductance nanowires are the workhorse for microwave quantum and superconducting sensing technologies. For devices, which can be operated at high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Kevin Uhl , Daniel Hackenbeck , Dieter Koelle , Reinhold Kleiner , Daniel Bothner

An interferometric device is proposed in order to analyze the quartet mode in biased three-terminal Josephson junctions (TTJs), and to provide experimental evidence for emergence of a single stationary phase, the so-called quartet phase. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-25 Régis Mélin , Denis Feinberg