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We investigate a superconducting single-electron transistor capacitively coupled to a nanomechanical oscillator and focus on the double Josephson quasiparticle resonance. The existence of two coherent Cooper pair tunneling events is shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-05 V. Koerting , T. L. Schmidt , C. B. Doiron , B. Trauzettel , C. Bruder

We study the transport properties of a serial double quantum dot (DQD) coupled to two superconducting leads, focusing on the Josephson current through the DQD and the associated 0-$\pi$ transitions which result from the subtle interplay…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-31 Rok Zitko , Minchul Lee , Rosa Lopez , Ramon Aguado , Mahn-Soo Choi

We apply a Gutzwiller-like variational technique to study Josephson conduction across a quantum dot with an odd number of electrons connected to two superconducting leads. Our method projects out all states on the dot but the Kondo singlet…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Gabriele Campagnano , Domenico Giuliano , Adele Naddeo , Arturo Tagliacozzo

We investigate the Josephson effect through a two-level quantum dot with an exchange coupling between two dot electrons. We compute the superconducting phase relationship and construct the phase diagram in the superconducting gap--exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-25 Minchul Lee , Thibaut Jonckheere , Thierry Martin

Recent experiments have demonstrated the nonequilibrium control of the supercurrent through diffusive phase-coherent normal-metal weak links. The experimental results have been accurately described by the quasiclassical Green's function…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Tero T. Heikkilä , Jani Särkkä , Frank K. Wilhelm

We investigate the Josephson effect between two coupled superconductors, coupled by the tunneling of pairs of electrons, in the regime that their energy level spacing is comparable to the bulk superconducting gap, but neglecting any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dominique Gobert , Ulrich Schollwock , Jan von Delft

We consider the energetics of a superconducting double dot, comprising two superconducting islands coupled in series via a Josephson junction. The periodicity of the stability diagram is governed by the competition between the charging…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-27 N. J. Lambert , M. Edwards , A. A. Esmail , F. A. Pollock , B. W. Lovett , A. J. Ferguson

We carry out an extensive experimental and theoretical study of the Josephson effect in S-N-S junctions made of a diffusive normal metal (N) embedded between two superconducting electrodes (S). Our experiments are performed on Nb-Cu-Nb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Dubos , H. Courtois , B. Pannetier , F. K. Wilhelm , A. D. Zaikin , G. Schon

Full-shell nanowires (a semiconducting core fully wrapped by an epitaxial superconducting shell) have recently been introduced as promising hybrid quantum devices. Despite this, however, their properties when forming a Josephson junction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 G. Giavaras , R. Aguado

We theoretically propose a universal superconducting diode device based on double magnetic impurities which are coupled to the connection region of the Josephson junction. The positive and negative currents flowing across the junction can…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-05 Yu-Fei Sun , Yue Mao , Qing-Feng Sun

We have theoretically studied the supercurrent profiles in three-dimensional normal metal and ferromagnetic Josephson configurations, where the magnitude of the superconducting gaps in the superconducting leads are unequal, i.e.,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-05 Mohammad Alidoust , Klaus Halterman

The Josephson junction is typically tuned by a magnetic field or electrostatic gates to realize a superconducting transistor, which manipulates the supercurrent in integrated superconducting circuits. However, this tunable method does not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Guo-Jian Qiao , Zhi-Lei Zhang , Sheng-Wen Li , C. P. Sun

Applying a constant voltage to superconducting nanowires we find that its IV-characteristic exhibits an unusual S-behavior. This behavior is the direct consequence of the dynamics of the superconducting condensate and of the existence of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Y. Vodolazov , F. M. Peeters , L. Piraux , S. Matefi-Tempfli , S. Michotte

We investigate the Josephson effects in the junction formed by \emph{DIII}-class topological and $s$-wave superconductors, by embedding a quantum dot in the junction. Three dot-superconductor coupling manners are considered, respectively.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Zhen Gao , Wan-Fei Shan , Wei-Jiang Gong

We consider a superconducting loop with two weak links that encloses a magnetic flux. The weak links are unequal and are treated as Josephson junctions with non-sinusoidal phase dependence. We devise a model that takes into account the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Jorge Berger

We derive, via fourth order perturbation theory, an expression for the Josephson current through a gated interacting quantum dot. We analyze our expression for two different models of the superconductor-dot-superconductor (SDS) system. When…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. V. Rozhkov , D. P. Arovas , F. Guinea

We study a multi-terminal Josephson junction based on an interacting quantum dot coupled to $n$ superconducting BCS leads. Using an Anderson type model of a local level with an arbitrary onsite Coulomb repulsion, we uncover its surprising…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Peter Zalom , Martin Žonda , T. Novotný

We compute the critical Josephson current through a single-molecule junction. As a model for a molecule with a bistable conformational degree of freedom, we study an interacting single-level quantum dot coupled to a two-level system and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Andreas Schulz , Alex Zazunov , Reinhold Egger

Superconducting systems that simultaneously lack space-inversion and time-reversal symmetries have recently been the subject of a flurry of experimental and theoretical research activities. Their ability to carry supercurrents with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-25 Andreas Costa , Jaroslav Fabian , Denis Kochan

The multi-terminal Josephson effect allows DC supercurrent to flow at finite commensurate voltages. Existing proposals to realize this effect rely on nonlocal Andreev processes in superconductor-normal-superconductor junctions. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 André Melo , Valla Fatemi , Anton R. Akhmerov