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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…

Recent experiments reported that quantum Hall chiral edge state-mediated Josephson junctions (chiral Josephson junctions) could exhibit Fraunhofer oscillations with a periodicity of either $h/e$ [Vignaud \textit{et al}.,~Nature~(2023)] or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Zi-Ting Sun , Jin-Xin Hu , Ying-Ming Xie , K. T. Law

In analogy to conventional semiconductor diodes, the Josephson diode exhibits superconducting properties that are asymmetric in applied bias. The effect has been investigated in number of systems recently, and requires a combination of…

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

The modern understanding of the Josephson effect in mesosopic devices derives from the physics of Andreev bound states, fermionic modes that are localized in a superconducting weak link. Recently, Josephson junctions constructed using…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-01 M. Hays , G. de Lange , K. Serniak , D. J. van Woerkom , D. Bouman , P. Krogstrup , J. Nygård , A. Geresdi , M. H. Devoret

Experimental techniques to verify Majoranas are of current interest. A prominent test is the effect of Majoranas on the Josephson current between two wires linked via a normal junction. Here, we study the case of a quantum dot connecting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-03 J. Schulenborg , K. Flensberg

We calculate the differential conductance at a probe inserted in the weak link of a topological Josephson junction, consisting of a semiconducting nanowire deposited on top of two separated superconductors. Our aim is to understand how the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Stefano Valentini , Rosario Fazio , Fabio Taddei

We perform microscopic numerical simulations of the Josephson effect through short junctions between two full-shell hybrid nanowires, comprised of a semiconductor core fully wrapped by a thin superconductor shell, both in the trivial and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Carlos Payá , Ramón Aguado , Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada

Conventional models of Josephson junction dynamics rely on the absence of low energy quasiparticle states due to a large superconducting gap. With this assumption the quasiparticle degrees of freedom become "frozen out" and the phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-10-25 Jens Michelsen , Vitaly S. Shumeiko

We consider Josephson junctions on surfaces of three dimensional topological insulator nanowires. We find that in the presence of a parallel magnetic field, short junctions on nanowires show signatures of a perfectly transmitted mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-12 Roni Ilan , Jens H. Bardarson , H. -S. Sim , Joel E. Moore

Superconductivity and the quantum Hall effect are considered to be two cornerstones of condensed matter physics. The realization of hybrid structures where these two effects coexist has recently become an active field of research. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

Josephson junctions fabricated on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators (TI) show a few unusual properties distinct from conventional Josephson junctions. In these devices, the Josephson coupling and the supercurrent are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-01-18 Christopher T. Olund , Erhai Zhao

Disorder effects in hybrid semiconductor-superconductor (SM-SC) nanowires, widely recognized as the main obstacle to realizing stable Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in these structures, have been systematically investigated theoretically in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-08 Purna P. Paudel , Nathan O. Smith , Tudor D. Stanescu

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 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

We study the spectrum of Andreev bound states and Josephson currents across a junction of $N$ superconducting wires which may have $s$- or $p$-wave pairing symmetries and develop a scattering matrix based formalism which allows us to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-30 Oindrila Deb , K. Sengupta , Diptiman Sen

Recent experiments on planar superconductor-topological insulator-superconductor (S-TI-S) junctions, e.g., in Corbino geometry, have reported low-temperature nonzero Josephson currents in states with integer fluxoid (flux) induced in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Kiryl Piasotski , Omri Lesser , Adrian Reich , Pavel Ostrovsky , Eytan Grosfeld , Yuriy Makhlin , Yuval Oreg , Alexander Shnirman

Recently, superconductors with higher-order topology have stimulated extensive attention and research interest. Higher-order topological superconductors exhibit unconventional bulk-boundary correspondence, thus allow exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Xiao-Ting Chen , Chun-Hui Liu , Dong-Hui Xu , Chui-Zhen Chen

The first evidence of anomalous Josephson effect is reported in mesoscopic superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) junctions forming a crosslike Andreev Interferometer in the absence of magnetic and spin-orbit interactions normally…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-02 D. Margineda , J. S. Claydon , F. Qejvanaj , C. Checkley

We discuss the properties of topologically nontrivial superconducting phases and the conditions for their realization in condensed matter, and the principles for identifying Majorana bound states (MBSs). Along with the well-known Kitaev…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-23 V. V. Val'kov , M. S. Shustin , S. V. Aksenov , A. O. Zlotnikov , A. D. Fedoseev , V. A. Mitskan , M. Yu. Kagan