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We study chiral interface Andreev bound states and their influence on the Josephson current between clean superconductors. Possible examples are superconducting Sr2RuO4 and the B-phase of the heavy-fermion superconductor UPt3. We show that,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu. S. Barash , A. M. Bobkov , M. Fogelstrom

Josephson junctions made with conventional s-wave superconductors and containing multiple layers of ferromagnetic materials can carry spin-triplet supercurrent in the presence of certain types of magnetic inhomogeneity. In junctions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-24 William Martinez , W. P. Pratt, , Norman O. Birge

Combining the Josephson effect with magnetism, or spin dependence in general, creates novel physical phenomena. The spin-asymmetric Josephson effect is a predicted phenomenon where a spin-dependent potential applied across a Josephson…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-02-13 Juha M. Kreula , Miikka O. J. Heikkinen , Francesco Massel , Päivi Törmä

We study the Josephson effect in $s_{\pm}/I/s_{\pm}$ junctions made by two bands reversed sign s-wave ($s_{\pm}$) superconductive materials. We derive an equation providing the bound Andreev energy states parameterized by the band ratio…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-01-30 C. Nappi , S. De Nicola , M. Adamo , E. Sarnelli

The prospect of combining the dissipationless nature of superconducting currents with the spin-polarization of magnetic materials is interesting with respect to exploring superconducting analogues of topics in spintronics. In order to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Iryna Kulagina , Jacob Linder

We consider phase-biased Josephson junctions with spin-orbit coupling under external magnetic fields and study the emergence of the Josephson diode effect in the presence of Majorana bound states. We show that junctions having middle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-08 Jorge Cayao , Naoto Nagaosa , Yukio Tanaka

Superconductor-topological insulator-superconductor Josephson junctions have been fabricated in order to study the width dependence of the critical current, normal state resistance and flux periodicity of the critical current modulation in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 C. G. Molenaar , D. P. Leusink , X. L. Wang , A. Brinkman

Stochastic switching-current distribution in a graphene-based Josephson junction exhibits a crossover from the classical to quantum regime, revealing the macroscopic quantum tunneling (MQT) of a Josephson phase particle at low temperatures.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-15 Gil-Ho Lee , Dongchan Jeong , Jae-Hyun Choi , Yong-Joo Doh , Hu-Jong Lee

We analyze the dc Josephson effect in a ballistic superconductor/half-metal/superconductor junction by means of the Bogoliubov de Gennes equations. We study the role of spin-active interfaces and compare how different superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-03-09 Henrik Enoksen , Jacob Linder , Asle Sudbo

Recently, topological superconductors based on Josephson junctions in two-dimensional electron gases with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling have been proposed as attractive alternatives to wire-based setups. Here, we elucidate how…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-14 Benedikt Scharf , Falko Pientka , Hechen Ren , Amir Yacoby , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

We demonstrate that phase-dependent heat currents through superconductor-topological insulator Josephson junctions provide a useful tool to probe the existence of topological Andreev bound states, even for multi-channel surface states. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 Björn Sothmann , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

Proximity induced superconducting states in the surface of magnetically doped topological insulators can host chiral Majorana modes. We consider a Josephson junction in that system with changing the chemical potential, which drives a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-25 Tsubasa Toki , Sho Nakosai , Yukio Tanaka , Yuki Kawaguchi

We calculate the Andreev bound states and the corresponding Josephson current for an asymmetric 2-dimensional Josephson junction by solving Bogoliubov-de-Gennes equations. The junction consists of a non-centrosymmetric superconductor (NCS)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-05-13 Ludwig Klam , Anthony Epp , Wei Chen , Manfred Sigrist , Dirk Manske

We study all the possible different two terminal configurations of Josephson junctions containing wires of time-reversal invariant topological superconductors (TRITOPS) and ordinary superconductors, including combinations with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Liliana Arrachea , Alberto Camjayi , Armando A. Aligia , Leonel Gruñeiro

We study the Josephson junction mediated by the quantum spin Hall edge states and show that electron-electron interactions lead to a dissipationless fractional Josephson effect in the presence of time-reversal symmetry. Surprisingly, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-07-17 Fan Zhang , C. L. Kane

We investigate the Josephson effect in a bilayer graphene flake contacted by two monolayer sheet deposited by superconducting electrodes. It is found that when the electrodes are attached to the different layers of the bilayer, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Babak Zare Rameshti , Malek Zareyan , Ali G. Moghaddam

We compute the effect of a d-wave magnetization (altermagnetism) on the spectrum of bound states (Andreev levels) in a junction between two s-wave superconductors (gap $\Delta_0$, phase difference $\phi$). Compared to a nonmagnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-23 C. W. J. Beenakker , T. Vakhtel

Josephson junctions containing two ferromagnetic layers are being considered for use in cryogenic memory. Our group recently demonstrated that the ground-state phase difference across such a junction with carefully chosen layer thicknesses…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-07 Bethany M. Niedzielski , T. J. Bertus , Joseph A. Glick , R. Loloee , W. P. Pratt, , Norman O. Birge

We investigate superconducting quantum interference devices consisting of two highly transmissive Josephson junctions coupled by a superconducting loop, all defined in an epitaxial InAs/Al heterostructure. A novel device design allows for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 F. Nichele , E. Portolés , A. Fornieri , A. M. Whiticar , A. C. C. Drachmann , T. Wang , G. C. Gardner , C. Thomas , A. T. Hatke , M. J. Manfra , C. M. Marcus

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