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Planar Josephson junctions (JJs) based on InSb nanoflags have recently emerged as an intriguing platform in superconducting electronics. This letter presents the fabrication and investigation of superconducting quantum interference devices…

Germanium and silicon-germanium alloys have found entry into Si technology thanks to their compatibility with Si processing and their ability to tailor electronic properties by strain and band-gap engineering. Germanium's potential to…

We investigate the influence of the superconducting (S) proximity effect in the quantum Hall (QH) regime by computing the charge conductance flowing through a graphene-based QH/S/QH junction. This situation offers the exciting possibility…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-21 Pierre Carmier

We have realized submicron tunnel ferromagnetic Al/AlO$_x$/Al/Ni$_{80}$Fe$_{20}$/Al Josephson junctions (JJs) in Manhattan-style configuration for qubit applications. These junctions have been designed to lie within the energy range of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-15 R. Satariano , R. Ferraiuolo , F. Calloni , H. G. Ahmad , D. Gatta , F. Tafuri , A. Bruno , D. Massarotti

We study superconducting quantum interference in a Josephson junction linked via edge states in two-dimensional (2D) insulators. We consider two scenarios in which the 2D insulator is either a topological or a trivial insulator supporting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-16 Tamás Haidekker Galambos , Silas Hoffman , Patrik Recher , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Introduction of a Josephson field effect transistor (JoFET) concept sparked active research on proximity effects in semiconductors. Induced superconductivity and electrostatic control of critical current has been demonstrated in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Zhong Wan , Aleksandr Kazakov , Michael J. Manfra , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Ken W. West , Leonid P. Rokhinson

InSb nanoflags represent an interesting platform for quantum transport and have recently been exploited in the study of hybrid planar Josephson junctions. Due to the uncovered semiconductor surface, they are also good candidates for surface…

Superconducting qubits, realized by incorporating Josephson junctions into superconducting circuits, behave as artificial atoms with anharmonic energy spectra and can be precisely controlled and measured using microwave cavities within the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Roson Nongthombam , Urmimala Dewan , Amarendra K. Sarma

We have theoretically investigated macroscopic quantum tunneling (MQT) and the influence of nodal quasiparticles and zero energy bound states (ZES) on MQT in s-wave/d-wave hybrid Josephson junctions. In contrast to d-wave/d-wave junctions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Shiro Kawabata

We report the observation of Josephson diode effect (JDE) in hybrid devices made from semiconductor InAs nanosheets and superconductor Al contacts. By applying an in-plane magnetic field ($B_{\mathrm{xy}}$), we detect non-reciprocal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Shili Yan , Yi Luo , Haitian Su , Han Gao , Xingjun Wu , Dong Pan , Jianhua Zhao , Ji-Yin Wang , Hongqi Xu

Hydrogen contamination in Josephson junctions is a potential source of device-to-device variability and two-level-system loss in superconducting qubits. In this work, we investigate hydrogen incorporation in oxidized aluminum barriers by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Yu Zhu , Aldilene Saraiva-Souza , Félix Beaudoin , Hong Guo

Superconducting flux qubits are a promising candidate for solid-state quantum computation. One of the reasons is that implementing a controlled coupling between the qubits appears to be relatively easy, if one uses tunable Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 M. J. Storcz , F. K. Wilhelm

The Josephson effect represents perhaps the prototype of macroscopic phase coherence and is at the basis of the most widespread interferometer, i.e., the superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). Yet, in analogy to electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-21 F. Giazotto , M. J. Martinez-Perez

We present a theoretical study of a spin field-effect transistor realized in a quantum well formed in a p--doped ferromagnetic-semiconductor- nonmagnetic-semiconductor-ferromagnetic-semiconductor hybrid structure. Based on an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco G. Pala , Michele Governale , Jürgen König , Ulrich Zülicke , Giuseppe Iannaccone

Technology involving hybrid superconductor-semiconductor materials is a promising avenue for engineering quantum devices for information storage, manipulation, and transmission. Proximity-induced superconducting correlations are an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Serafim S. Babkin , Benjamin Joecker , Karsten Flensberg , Maksym Serbyn , Jeroen Danon

Designing the spatial profile of the superconducting gap -- gap engineering -- has long been recognized as an effective way of controlling quasiparticles in superconducting devices. In aluminum films, their thickness modulates the gap;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Giampiero Marchegiani , Luigi Amico , Gianluigi Catelani

Strained Ge ($\epsilon$-Ge) and strained Si ($\epsilon$-Si) buried quantum wells have enabled advanced spin-qubit quantum processors. However, in the absence of suitable lattice-matched substrates, $\epsilon$-Ge and $\epsilon$-Si are…

Superconductor/semiconductor-nanowire hybrid structures can serve as versatile building blocks to realize Majorana circuits or superconducting qubits based on quantized levels such as Andreev qubits. For all these applications it is…

When two superconductors are connected across a ferromagnet, the spin configuration of the transferred Cooper pairs can be modulated due to magnetic exchange interaction. The resulting supercurrent can reverse its sign across the Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 H. Idzuchi , F. Pientka , K. -F. Huang , K. Harada , Ö. Gül , Y. J. Shin , L. T. Nguyen , N. H. Jo , D. Shindo , R. J. Cava , P. C. Canfield , P. Kim

Hybrid circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED) involves the study of coherent quantum physics in solid state systems via their interactions with superconducting microwave circuits. Here we present an implementation of a hybrid superconducting…

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