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As part of the intense effort towards identifying platforms in which Majorana bound states can be realized and manipulated to perform qubit operations, we propose a topological Josephson junction architecture that achieves these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Suraj S. Hegde , Guang Yue , Yuxuan Wang , Erik Huemiller , D. J. Van Harlingen , Smitha Vishveshwara

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

A semiconducting nanowire with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling and coupled to a superconductor can be tuned by an external Zeeman field into a topological phase with Majorana zero modes. Here we theoretically investigate how this exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-23 Jorge Cayao , Pablo San-Jose , Annica Black-Schaffer , Ramón Aguado , Elsa Prada

The interplay of superconductivity, magnetic fields, and spin-orbit interaction lies at the heart of topological superconductivity. Remarkably, the recent experimental discovery of $\varphi_{0}$ Josephson junctions by Szombati et al., Nat.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Constantin Schrade , Silas Hoffman , Daniel Loss

Planar Josephson junctions provide a platform to host topological superconductivity which, through manipulating Majorana bound states (MBS), could enable fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, what constitutes experimental signatures of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Barış Pekerten , David Brandão , Bassel Heiba Elfeky , Tong Zhou , Jong E. Han , Javad Shabani , Igor Žutić

Amplifiers based on Josephson junctions allow for a fast and noninvasive readout of superconducting qubits. Motivated by the ongoing progress toward the realization of fault-tolerant qubits based on Majorana bound states, we investigate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-19 Samuel Boutin , Pedro L. S. Lopes , Anqi Mu , Udson C. Mendes , Ion Garate

Multi-terminal superconducting Josephson junctions based on the proximity effect offer the bright opportunity to tailor non trivial quantum states in nanoscale weak-links. These structures can realize exotic topologies in multidimensions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-09 E. Strambini , S. D'Ambrosio , F. Vischi , F. S. Bergeret , Yu. V. Nazarov , F. Giazotto

Two-dimensional arrays of superconductors separated by normal metallic regions exhibit rich phenomenology and a high degree of controllability. We establish such systems as platforms for topological phases of matter, and in particular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Omri Lesser , Ady Stern , Yuval Oreg

We theoretically investigate how the spin susceptibility of a planar Josephson junction is affected when the system transits into the topological superconducting state. We show that the magnetic flux and magnetic field dependence of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-04 Joseph D. Pakizer , Alex Matos-Abiague

Topological superconductors can host Majorana quasiparticles which supersede the fermion/boson dichotomy and offer a pathway to fault tolerant quantum computation. In one-dimensional systems zero-energy Majorana states are bound to the ends…

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer a unique platform to study unconventional superconductivity, owing to the presence of strong spin-orbit coupling and a remarkable stability to an in-plane magnetic field. A recent study found…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-29 Ranjani Seshadri , Maxim Khodas , Dganit Meidan

We consider a Josephson junction consisting of superconductor/ferromagnetic insulator (S/FI) bilayers as electrodes which proximizes a nearby 2D electron gas. By starting from a generic Josephson hybrid planar setup we present an exhaustive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-07-11 P. Virtanen , F. S. Bergeret , E. Strambini , F. Giazotto , A. Braggio

Majorana bound states (MBSs) are quasiparticles which are their own antiparticles. They are predicted to emerge as zero-energy modes localized at the boundary of a topological superconductor. No intrinsic topological superconductor is known…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 William F. Schiela , Peng Yu , Javad Shabani

A hallmark of topological superconductivity is the non-Abelian statistics of Majorana bound states (MBS), its chargeless zero-energy emergent quasiparticles. The resulting fractionalization of a single electron, stored nonlocally as a two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Tong Zhou , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , Kasra Sardashti , Jong E. Han , Alex Matos-Abiague , Javad Shabani , Igor Zutic

We study the evolution of averaged transconductances in three-terminal Josephson junctions when the superconducting leads are led throughout a topological phase transition from an $s$-wave to a $p$-wave (Majorana) phase by an in-plane…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-17 Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Gonzalo Usaj , Carlos A. Balseiro

A planar Josephson junction is a versatile platform to realize topological superconductivity over a large parameter space and host Majorana bound states. With a change in Zeeman field, this system undergoes a transition from trivial to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Barış Pekerten , David Brandão , Bailey Bussiere , David Monroe , Tong Zhou , Jong E. Han , Javad Shabani , Alex Matos-Abiague , Igor Žutić

The external controllability of topological superconductors and Majorana fermions would be important both for fundamental and practical interests. Here we predict the electric-field control of Majorana fermions in two-dimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-07 Jing Wang

Planar Josephson junctions are theoretically predicted to harbor zero-energy Majorana bound states (MBS) in a tunable two-dimensional geometry, at the two ends of the middle metallic channel. Here we show that three distinct topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-14 Pankaj Sharma , Narayan Mohanta

Hybrid Josephson junctions realized on a two-dimensional electron gas are considered promising candidates for developing topological elements that are easily controllable and scalable. Here, we theoretically study the possibility of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 D. Kuiri , M. P. Nowak

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