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There is growing interest in using multi-terminal Josephson junctions (MTJJs) as a platform to artificially emulate topological phases and to investigate complex superconducting mechanisms such as quartet and multiplet Cooper pairings.…

We investigate the Josephson effect in TNT and NTN junctions, consisting of topological (T) and normal (N) phases of semiconductor-superconductor 1D heterostructures in the presence of a Zeeman field. A key feature of our setup is that, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-10 Panagiotis Kotetes , Alexander Shnirman , Gerd Schön

Josephson junctions form the essential non-linearity for almost all superconducting qubits. The junction is formed when two superconducting electrodes come within $\sim$1 nm of each other. Although the capacitance of these electrodes is a…

The Josephson effect is a hallmark signature of the superconducting state, which, however, has been sparsely explored in non-crystalline superconducting materials. Motivated by this, we consider a Josephson junction consisting of two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-04 Morten Amundsen , Vladimir Juričić , Jabir Ali Ouassou

We study the Josephson effect in ballistic double-barrier SIFIS planar junctions, consisting of bulk superconductors (S), a clean metallic ferromagnet (F), and insulating interfaces (I). We solve the scattering problem based on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Radovic , N. Lazarides , N. Flytzanis

In this thesis we study short Josephson junctions which include a region with Rashba spin-orbit coupling effect. Our junctions consists of two superconductors (S) and a 2-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) layer between them: S/2DEG/S…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-01 A. F. Tzortzakakis , N. Flytzanis

We theoretically study coherent multiple Andreev reflections in a biased three-terminal Josephson junction. We demonstrate that the direct current flowing through the junction consists of supercurrent components when the bias voltages are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 M. P. Nowak , M. Wimmer , A. R. Akhmerov

Multi-terminal Josephson junctions were recently proposed as a versatile and tunable platform to emulate topological Bloch-like Hamiltonians in arbitrary dimensions. In this perspective article, we will give a brief overview of the subject…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-31 Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

Mesoscopic superconducting-normal-metal-superconducting (S-N-S) junctions with a large separation between the superconducting electrodes (i.e. wide junctions) exhibit nonequilibrium supercurrents, even at temperatures for which the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Nathan Argaman

We study a multi-terminal Josephson junction consisting of a central spin-orbit-coupled (SOC) region with an in-plane Zeeman field connected to four superconducting terminals. This setup allows for the simultaneous measurement of both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-29 Bijay Kumar Sahoo , Abhiram Soori

Topological superconductivity holds promise for fault-tolerant quantum computing. While planar Josephson junctions are attractive candidates to realize this exotic state, direct phase-measurements as the fingerprint of the topological…

We investigate the direction-dependent switching current in a flux-tunable four-terminal Josephson junction defined in an InAs/Al two-dimensional heterostructure. The device exhibits the Josephson diode effect, with switching currents that…

Josephson junctions made of conventional superconductors display Fraunhofer-like oscillations of the critical current as a function of the threaded magnetic flux. When the superconductors are deposited on the surface of a three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Omri Lesser , Joon Young Park , Yuval Ronen , Thomas Werkmeister , Philip Kim , Yuval Oreg

Josephson junctions enable dissipation-less electrical current through metals and insulators below a critical current. Despite being central to quantum technology based on superconducting quantum bits and fundamental research into…

High-quality free-standing InAs nanosheets are emerging layered semiconductor materials with potentials in designing planar Josephson junction devices for novel physics studies due to their unique properties including strong spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Shili Yan , Haitian Su , Dong Pan , Weijie Li , Zhaozheng Lyu , Mo Chen , Xingjun Wu , Li Lu , Jianhua Zhao , Ji-Yin Wang , H. Q. Xu

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

Transport is called nonreciprocal when not only the sign, but also the absolute value of the current, depends on the polarity of the applied voltage. It requires simultaneously broken inversion and time-reversal symmetries, e.g., by the…

We study the Josephson effect in a trijunction formed by two topological superconductor (TS) wires and a conventional $s$-wave superconductor. Using a boundary Green's function formalism, analytical results for the current-phase relation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-28 A. Zazunov , R. Egger , M. Alvarado , A. Levy Yeyati

In hybrid Josephson junctions with three or more superconducting terminals coupled to a semiconducting region, Andreev bound states may form unconventional energy band structures, or Andreev matter, which are engineered by controlling…

We theoretically study superconducting islands based on semiconductor-nanowire Josephson junctions and take into account the presence of subgap quasiparticle excitations in the spectrum of the junction. Our method extends the standard model…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-06 J. Avila , E. Prada , P. San-Jose , R. Aguado