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Coherence of superconducting qubits can be improved by implementing designs that protect the parity of Cooper pairs on superconducting islands. Here, we introduce a parity-protected qubit based on voltage-controlled semiconductor nanowire…

We study the effect of the interfacial transparency on the Josephson current in a diffusive ferromagnetic contact between two superconductors. In contrast to the cases of the fully transparent and the low-transparency interfaces, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Mohammadkhani , M. Zareyan

Superconductor-based light-emitting diode (superconductor-based LED) in strong light-confinement regime are characterized as a superconductor-based three-terminal device, and its transport properties are quantitatively investigated. In the…

We report on the fabrication and measurements of a superconducting junction of a single-crystalline Au nanowire, connected to Al electrodes. Current-Voltage characteristic curve shows clear supercurrent branch below the superconducting…

We propose a realization of the superconducting diode effect in flux biased superconducting circuits of Josephson junctions. So far the observation of the superconducting diode effect has been limited to rather exotic material platforms. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-07 Rafael Haenel , Oguzhan Can

We report supercurrent transport measurements in hybrid Josephson junctions comprised of semiconducting InAs nanowires with epitaxial ferromagnetic insulator EuS and superconducting Al coatings. The wires display a hysteretic…

We present a theoretical analysis of the equilibrium Josephson current-phase relation in hybrid devices made of conventional s-wave spin-singlet superconductors (S) and topological superconductor (TS) wires featuring Majorana end states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 A. Zazunov , A. Iks , M. Alvarado , A. Levy Yeyati , R. Egger

Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems provide a promising platform for hosting unpaired Majorana fermions towards the realisation of fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. In this study, we employ the Keldysh Non-Equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Praveen Sriram , Sandesh S Kalantre , Kaveh Gharavi , Jonathan Baugh , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

We report on transport properties of Josephson junctions in hybrid superconducting-topological insulator devices, which show two striking departures from the common Josephson junction behavior: a characteristic energy that scales inversely…

Extensive efforts have been undertaken to combine superconductivity and the quantum Hall effect so that Cooper-pair transport between superconducting electrodes in Josephson junctions is mediated by one-dimensional edge states. This…

The Josephson effect describes the flow of supercurrent in a weak link, such as a tunnel junction, nanowire, or molecule, between two superconductors. It is the basis for a variety of circuits and devices, with applications ranging from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-23 L. Bretheau , Ç. Ö. Girit , Hugues Pothier , D. Esteve , C. Urbina

We theoretically study the DC Josephson effect of a semiconductor nanowire (NW) with strong spin-orbit interaction when a magnetic field is applied parallel to the NW. We adopt a model of single scatterer in a quasi-one-dimensional system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-15 Tomohiro Yokoyama , Mikio Eto , Yuli V. Nazarov

We propose a way to control the Josephson energy of a single Josephson junction embedded in one- dimensional superconducting metamaterial: an inhomogeneous superconducting loop, made out of a superconducting nanowire or a chain of Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Masahiko Taguchi , Denis M. Basko , Frank W. J. Hekking

More and more materials, with a growing variety of properties, are built into electronic devices. This is motivated both by increased device performance and by the studies of materials themselves. An important type of device is a Josephson…

Qubits on solid state devices could potentially provide the rapid control necessary for developing scalable quantum information processors. Materials innovation and design breakthroughs have increased functionality and coherence of qubits…

We study a superconducting quantum point contact made of a narrow In$_{0.75}% $Ga$_{0.25}$As channel with Nb proximity electrodes. The narrow channel is formed in a gate-fitted constriction of InGaAs/InAlAs/InP heterostructure hosting a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 Hiroshi Irie , Yuichi Harada , Hiroki Sugiyama , Tatsushi Akazaki

Coherent tunneling processes of multiple Cooper pairs across a Josephson junction give rise to higher harmonics in the current phase relation. In this work, we propose and study Josephson junctions based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Andrea Maiani , Karsten Flensberg , Martin Leijnse , Constantin Schrade , Saulius Vaitiekėnas , Rubén Seoane Souto

A planar Josephson junction with a normal metal attached on its top surface will form a hollow nanowire structure due to its three dimensional nature. In such hollow nanowire structure, the magnetic flux induced by a small magnetic field…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-12-25 Jie Liu , Yijia Wu , Qing-Feng Sun , X. C. Xie

It is well established that superconductivity is based on a coherent quantum state of Cooper pairs with charge 2e, and this is equally true of the Josephson effect. In contrast, Kadin recently presented an alternative real-space model of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-08-02 Alan M. Kadin

We theoretically study the superconducting proximity effect in a quantum dot coupled to two superconducting leads when the intradot interaction between electrons is made attractive. Because of the superconducting proximity effect, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-12-24 Yu-Chun Hsu , Wu-Jing Chen , Chien-Te Wu