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The Josephson effect is one of the most studied macroscopic quantum phenomena in condensed matter physics and has been an essential part of the quantum technologies development over the last decades. It is already used in many applications…

We investigate the organized formation of strain, ripples and suspended features in macroscopic CVD-prepared graphene sheets transferred onto a corrugated substrate made of an ordered arrays of silica pillars of variable geometries.…

We show that the low-energy electronic structure of graphene under a one-dimensional inhomogeneous magnetic field can be mapped into that of graphene under an electric field or vice versa. As a direct application of this transformation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-31 Liang Zheng Tan , Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie

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 have tuned in situ the proximity effect in a single graphene layer coupled to two Pt/Ta superconducting electrodes. An annealing current through the device changed the transmission coefficient of the electrode/graphene interface,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. M. Ojeda-Aristizabal , M. Ferrier , S. Gueron , H. Bouchiat

Double layer graphene is a gapless semiconductor which develops a finite gap when the layers are placed at different electrostatic potentials. We study, within the tight-biding approximation, the electronic properties of the gaped graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-26 Eduardo V. Castro , N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos

We investigated the electrical transport properties of superconductor-graphene-superconductor (SGS) Josephson junctions. In low voltage bias, we observed conventional proximity-coupled Josephson effect, such as the supercurrent flow through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-23 Jae-Hyun Choi , Hu-Jong Lee , Yong-Joo Doh

Spatially inhomogeneous strains in graphene can simulate the effects of valley-dependent magnetic fields. As demonstrated in recent experiments, the realizable magnetic fields are large enough to give rise to well-defined flat pseudo-Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-25 Pouyan Ghaemi , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Shinsei Ryu

We report a theoretical study suggesting a novel type of electronic switching effect, driven by the geometrical reconstruction of nanoscale graphene-based junctions. We considered junction struc- tures which have alternative metastable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 T. Kawai , M. Poetschke , Y. Miyamoto , C. G. Rocha , S. Roche , G. Cuniberti

We report a theoretical study of the low-frequency impedance of a Josephson junction chain whose parameters vary in space. Our goal is to find the optimal spatial profile which maximizes the total inductance of the chain without shrinking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-30 D. V. Nguyen , D. M. Basko

The $4\pi$ Josephson Effect is a distinguishing feature of a topological Josephson junction. However, stringent conditions make it hard to observe in experiments. Here we numerically study the transient transport properties in a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Dihao Sun , Jie Liu

We measured the magnetic field dependence of the critical current of high quality Nb-based planar Josephson tunnel junctions in the presence of a controllable non-uniform field distribution. We found skewed and slowly changing magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-17 Roberto Monaco , Jesper Mygind , Valery Koshelets

We theoretically investigate the mapping of the supercurrent distribution in a planar superconductor-normal-superconductor junction in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field via the scanning gate microscopy technique. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 K. Kaperek , S. Heun , M. Carrega , P. Wójcik , M. P. Nowak

We investigate through analytic calculations the surface plasmon dispersion relation for monolayer graphene sheets and a separated parallel pair of graphene monolayers. An approximate form for the dispersion relation for the monolayer case…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-21 Choon How Gan , Hong Son Chu , Er Ping Li

The tunability of superconducting magic-angle twisted-layer graphene films elevates this material system to a promising candidate for superconducting electronics. We implement a gate-tuned Josephson junction in a magic-angle twisted…

For Josephson junctions based on s-wave superconductors, time-reversal symmetry is known to allow for powerful relations between the normal-state junction properties, the excitation spectrum, and the Josephson current. Here we provide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-10 E. A. Mellars , B. Béri

The phase difference between the banks of an edge-type planar Josephson junction crossing the narrow thin-film strip depends on wether or not vortices are present in the junction banks. For a vortex close to the junction this effect has…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 V. G. Kogan , R. G. Mints

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…

In this study, we explore the Josephson current-phase relation within a planar diffuse tunneling superconducting multilayer junction subjected to a parallel magnetic field. Our investigation involves computing the supercurrent associated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-19 A. S. Osin , Alex Levchenko , Maxim Khodas

It is demonstrated that the electric dipole layer due to the overlapping of electron wavefunctions at metal/graphene contact results in negative Fermi-level pinning effect on the region of GaAs surface with low interface-trap density in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-18 Hoon Hahn Yoon , Wonho Song , Sungchul Jung , Junhyung Kim , Kyuhyung Mo , Gahyun Choi , Hu Young Jeong , Jong Hoon Lee , Kibog Park