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Nonequilibrium quasiparticles are ubiquitous in superconducting electronics. These quasiparticles can trap in the internal Andreev bound states of a phase-biased Josephson junction, providing a mechanism for studying their presence and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 James T. Farmer , Azarin Zarassi , Darian M. Hartsell , Evangelos Vlachos , Haimeng Zhang , Eli M. Levenson-Falk

We theoretically study coherent multiple Andreev reflections in a biased three-terminal Josephson junction. We demonstrate that the direct current flowing through the junction consists of supercurrent components when the bias voltages are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 M. P. Nowak , M. Wimmer , A. R. Akhmerov

Topologically nontrivial band structure of a material may give rise to special states that are confined to the material's boundary and protected against disorder and scattering. Quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) is a paradigmatic example of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Luis Alberto Razo López , Pierre Wulles , Geoffroy J. Aubry , Sergey E. Skipetrov , Fabrice Mortessagne

We present a theoretical analysis of the equilibrium Josephson current-phase relation in hybrid devices made of conventional s-wave spin-singlet superconductors (S) and topological superconductor (TS) wires featuring Majorana end states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 A. Zazunov , A. Iks , M. Alvarado , A. Levy Yeyati , R. Egger

The interplay of superconductivity, magnetic fields, and spin-orbit interaction lies at the heart of topological superconductivity. Remarkably, the recent experimental discovery of $\varphi_{0}$ Josephson junctions by Szombati et al., Nat.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Constantin Schrade , Silas Hoffman , Daniel Loss

We performed microwave spectroscopy of an InAs nanowire between superconducting contacts implementing a finite-length, multi-channel Josephson weak link. Certain features in the spectra, such as the splitting by spin-orbit interactions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-01 F. J. Matute-Cañadas , C. Metzger , Sunghun Park , L. Tosi , P. Krogstrup , J. Nygård , M. F. Goffman , C. Urbina , H. Pothier , A. Levy Yeyati

We theoretically study the superconducting diode effect in a three-terminal Josephson junction. The diode effect in superconducting systems is typically related to the presence of a difference in the critical currents for currents flowing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-07 Jorge Huamani Correa , Michal P. Nowak

We have fabricated a superconductor/semiconductor (S/Sm) junction composed of Al and InAs using cleaved edge overgrowth. By exploiting the unique geometry with a thin Al/Pt/Al trilayer formed on the side surface of an in-situ cleaved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Takafumi Akiho , Hiroshi Irie , Yusuke Nakazawa , Satoshi Sasaki , Norio Kumada , Koji Muraki

Considering a $d$-wave superconductor being in proximity to a two-dimensional Weyl model, a topological superconductor with gapless edge states may be realized. We here demonstrate that the system can become topologically trivial when an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-02 Tao Zhou , Yi Gao , Z. D. Wang

We construct a holographic model of superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) in the Einstein-Maxwell-complex scalar theory with a negative cosmological constant. The SQUID ring consists of two Josephson junctions which sit on two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Rong-Gen Cai , Yong-Qiang Wang , Hai-Qing Zhang

We report microwave spectroscopy of Josephson junctions chains made from an epitaxial Al/InAs heterostructure. The chains exhibit superinductance, with characteristic wave impedance exceeding $R_{Q} = \hbar/(2e)^{2}$. The planar nature of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Junseok Oh , Ido Levy , Tyler Cowan , Jacob Issokson , Archana Kamal , Javad Shabani , Andrew P. Higginbotham

We consider a quantum Hall (QH) region in contact with a superconductor (SC), i.e., a QH-SC junction. Due to successive Andreev reflections, the QH-SC interface hosts hybridized electron and hole edge states called chiral Andreev edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 Anthony David , Julia S. Meyer , Manuel Houzet

Andreev bound states are an expression of quantum coherence between particles and holes in hybrid structures composed of superconducting and non-superconducting metallic parts. Their spectrum carries important information on the nature of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-28 Matthias Eschrig

As scanning tunneling microscopy is pushed towards fast local dynamics, a quantitative understanding of tunnel junctions under the influence of a fast AC driving signal is required, especially at the ultra-low temperatures relevant to spin…

We consider a long topological Josephson junction formed on a conducting 2D surface of a 3D topological insulator (TI). The superconducting correlations are proximity-induced by s-wave superconductors covering the surface. The 1D spacing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-24 Stefan Backens , Alexander Shnirman

We investigate the spectrum of Andreev bound states and supercurrent in a $p$-wave non-Hermitian Josephson junction (NHJJ) in one dimension. The studied NHJJ is composed of two topological $p$-wave superconductors connected by a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-24 Chang-An Li , Björn Trauzettel

The theory of Andreev conductance is formulated for junctions involving normal metals (N) and multiband superconductors (S) and applied to the case of superconductors with nodeless extended $s_{\pm}$-wave order parameter symmetry, as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 A. A. Golubov , A. Brinkman , O. V. Dolgov , I. I. Mazin , Y. Tanaka

The interplay between topological protection and dissipation constitutes a critical frontier in the realization of hybrid quantum devices. Here, we investigate the transport signatures in a dissipative topological insulator-based Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-03 Ardamon Sten , Paramita Dutta , Sudeep Kumar Ghosh

The phase and thermal driven transport properties of the T-shaped uncorrelated double quantum dot Josephson junction are analyzed by using Keldysh non-equilibrium Green's function equation of motion technique. In this setup, we have shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-10 Bhupendra Kumar , Sachin Verma , Ajay

We investigate the electronic transport properties of a superconductor-quantum dot-superconductor Josephson junction coupled to a ferromagnetic metal reservoir in the presence of an external magnetic field. The device is described by an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Roberto Capecelatro , Marco Marciani , Gabriele Campagnano , Roberta Citro , Procolo Lucignano