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Wires made of topological insulators (TI) are a promising platform for searching for Majorana bound states. These states can be probed by analyzing the fractional ac Josephson effect in Josephson junctions with the TI wire as a weak link.…

We consider transport through a Josephson junction consisting of a conventional s-wave superconductor coupled via a double quantum dot to a noncentrosymmetric superconductor with both, singlet and triplet pairing. We calculate the Andreev…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-07-13 Björn Sothmann , Rakesh P. Tiwari

In this work, we investigate the thermoelectric properties of a hybrid junction realised coupling surface states of a three-dimensional topological insulator with a conventional $s$-wave superconductor. We focus on the ballistic devices and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-10-01 Dario Bercioux , Procolo Lucignano

In theory of superconducting junctions, Green's function has an important role to obtain Andreev bound states, local density of states and Josephson current in a systematic way. In this article, we show how to construct Green's function on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-27 Bo Lu , Yukio Tanaka

A lateral Josephson junction in which the surface of a 3D topological insulator serves as the weak link should support topologically protected excitations related to Majorana fermions. The resulting $4\pi$-periodic current-phase…

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…

We study a two-terminal graphene Josephson junction with contacts shaped to form a narrow constriction, less than 100nm in length. The contacts are made from type II superconducting contacts and able to withstand magnetic fields high enough…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 M. T. Wei , A. W. Draelos , A. Seredinski , C. T. Ke , H. Li , Y. Mehta , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. Yamamoto , S. Tarucha , G. Finkelstein , F. Amet , I. V. Borzenets

We study Josephson junctions based on second-order topological superconductors (SOTSs) which can be realized in quantum spin Hall insulators with large inverted gap in proximity to unconventional superconductors. We find that tuning the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-22 Song-Bo Zhang , Björn Trauzettel

We study the Josephson effect for a topologically nontrivial superconducting (TS) wire with Majorana fermion end states and tunnel-coupled to s-wave BCS superconducting (S) electrodes. In an S-TS junction, no supercurrent flow is possible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-21 A. Zazunov , R. Egger

We derive equations for the quasiclassical Green's functions $\check{g}$ within a simple model of a two-band superconductor with a spin-density-wave (SDW). The elements of the matrix $\check{g}$ are the retarded, advanced, and Keldysh…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-05-06 A. Moor , A. F. Volkov , K. B. Efetov

We experimentally investigate Josephson current between two 5~$\mu$m spaced superconducting indium leads, coupled to a NiTe$_2$ single crystal flake, which is a type-II Dirac semimetal. Under microwave irradiation, we demonstrate a.c.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 D. Yu. Kazmin , V. D. Esin , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

We derive the qualitative behavior of superconductor-antiferromagnet- superconductor (SAS) Josephson junctions described by Zhang's SO(5) theory. The main differences between these junctions and conventional SIS junctions arise from the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 B. C. den Hertog , A. J. Berlinsky , C. Kallin

The Josephson coupling of two isotropic s-wave superconductors through a small, magnetically active junction is studied. This is done as a function of junction transparency and of the degree of spin-mixing occurring in the barrier. In the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Mikael Fogelstrom

Spectra and spin structures of Andreev interface states and the Josephson current are investigated theoretically in junctions between clean superconductors (SC) with ordered interlayers. The Josephson current through the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuri Barash , I. V. Bobkova , Brian M. Andersen , T. Kopp , P. J. Hirschfeld

We calculate a nondissipative spin current and show that it can flow with or without a charge current. We consider a two-band model which can be applied to the description of Fe-based pnictides in coexistence regime of superconductivity and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-30 Andreas Moor , Anatoly F. Volkov , Konstantin B. Efetov

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…

Establishment of phase-coherence and a non-dissipative (super)current between two weakly coupled superconductors, known as the Josephson effect, plays a foundational role in basic physics and applications to metrology, precision sensing,…

A superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) comprising 0- and $\pi$-Josephson junctions (JJs), called $\pi$-SQUID, is studied by the resistively shunted junction model. The $\pi$-SQUID shows half-integer Shapiro-steps (SS) under…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-09 Michiyasu Mori , Sadamichi Maekawa

In recent years, Majorana physics has attracted considerable attention in both theoretical and experimental studies due to exotic new phenomena and its prospects for fault-tolerant topological quantum computation. To this end, one needs to…

We explore a spin Josephson effect in a system of two ferromagnets coupled by a tunnel junction formed of 2D time-reversal invariant topological insulators. In analogy with the more commonly studied instance of the Josephson effect for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Qinglei Meng , Vasudha Shivamoggi , Taylor L. Hughes , Matthew J. Gilbert , Smitha Vishveshwara