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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

The simultaneous breaking of time-reversal and inversion symmetry, in connection to superconductivity, leads to transport properties with disrupting scientific and technological potential. Indeed, the anomalous Josephson effect and the…

The fractional AC Josephson effect is a discerning property of topological superconductivity in hybrid Josephson junctions. Recent experimental observations of missing odd Shapiro steps and half Josephson frequency emission in various…

We discuss an experiment in which two magnetic insulators that both show a field-induced magnetic-ordering transition are weakly coupled to one another and are placed into an ex- ternal magnetic field. If the respective magnetic states can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-18 Andreas Schilling , Henrik Grundmann

We predict that the Josephson current in a clean s-wave superconductor-normal metal-d-wave superconductor junction is periodic in superconducting phase difference $\phi$ with period $\pi$ instead of $2\pi$. The frequency of non-stationary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 Alexandre M. Zagoskin

We study Josephson effect of $d$-wave superconductor (DS)/ferromagnet insulator(FI)/DS junctions on a surface of topological insulator (TI). We calculate Josephson current $I\left(\varphi \right) $ for various orientations of the junctions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-07 Bo Lu , Keiji Yada , A. A. Golubov , Yukio Tanaka

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

Topological Josephson junctions (JJs), which contain Majorana bound states, are expected to exhibit 4$\pi$-periodic current-phase relation, thereby resulting in doubled Shapiro steps under microwave irradiation. We performed numerical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-12-30 Yeongmin Jang , Yong-Joo Doh

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 study the anomalous Josephson effect, as well as the dependence on the direction of the critical Josephson current, in an S/N/S junction, where the normal part is realized by alternating spin-orbit coupled and ferromagnetic layers. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 M. Minutillo , D. Giuliano , P. Lucignano , A. Tagliacozzo , G. Campagnano

Cd3As2 is a three-dimensional topological Dirac semimetal with connected Fermi-arc surface states. It has been suggested that topological superconductivity can be achieved in the nontrivial surface states of topological materials by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-04 Wenlong Yu , Wei Pan , Douglas L. Medlin , Mark A. Rodriguez , Stephen R Lee , Zhi-qiang Bao , Fan Zhang

The $4\pi$-periodic Josephson effect is an indicator of Majorana zero modes and a ground-state degeneracy which are central to topological quantum computation. However, the observability of a $4\pi$-periodic Josephson current-phase relation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-04 G. Tkachov

In a standard Josephson junction the current is zero when the phase difference between the superconducting leads is zero. This condition is protected by parity and time-reversal symmetries. However, the combined presence of spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 William Mayer , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , Joseph Yuan , Kaushini S. Wickramasinghe , Enrico Rossi , Javad Shabani

The recent discovery of intrinsic supercurrent diode effect, and its prompt observation in a rich variety of systems, has shown that nonreciprocal supercurrents naturally emerge when both space- and time-inversion symmetries are broken. In…

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,…

Using standard tight-binding methods, we investigate a novel backscattering mechanism taking place on quantum spin Hall N'SNSN' Josephson junctions in the presence of time-reversal symmetry. This extended geometry allows for the interplay…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Cajetan Heinz , Patrik Recher , Fernando Dominguez

Fractional Josephson effect is a unique character of Majorana Fermions in topological superconductor system. This effect is very difficult to detect experimentally because of the disturbance of quasiparticle poisoning and unwanted couplings…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-10 Zhen-Tao Zhang , Zheng-Yuan Xue , Yang Yu

The simultaneous breaking of time-reversal and inversion symmetry can lead to peculiar effects in Josephson junctions, such as the anomalous Josephson effect or supercurrent rectification, which is a dissipationless analog of the diode…

The Josephson effect is a macroscopic quantum tunneling phenomenon in a system with superfluid property, when it is split into two parts by a barrier. Here, we examine the Josephson effect in a driven-dissipative supersolid realized by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-01-28 Jieli Qin , Shijie Li , Yijia Tu , Maokun Gu , Lin Guan , Weimin Xu , Lu Zhou

Topological insulators are characterized by an insulating bulk with a finite band gap and conducting edge or surface states, where charge carriers are protected against backscattering. These states give rise to the quantum spin Hall effect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-23 M. Veldhorst , M. Snelder , M. Hoek , T. Gang , X. L. Wang , V. K. Guduru , U. Zeitler , W. G. v. d. Wiel , A. A. Golubov , H. Hilgenkamp , A. Brinkman