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Multiterminal Josephson junctions offer a powerful playground for exploring exotic superconducting and topological phenomena beyond the reach of conventional two-terminal devices. In this work, we present the direct spectroscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Asmaul Smitha Rashid , Le Yi , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Nitin Samarth , Régis Mélin , Morteza Kayyalha

Altermagnets provide a new route to engineer superconducting circuits without magnetic fields. We theoretically study the Andreev bound state (ABS) spectrum of a finite-width altrmagnet-based Josephson junction and show how the $d$-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Sakineh Vosoughi-nia , Michał P. Nowak

A semiconductor nanowire brought in proximity to a superconductor can form discrete, particle-hole symmetric states, known as Andreev bound states (ABSs). An ABS can be found in its ground or excited states of different spin and parity,…

Josephson junctions coupled through magnetic textures provide a controllable platform for odd-frequency superconductivity and Majorana physics. Within a tight-binding Green function framework, induced pair correlations and spectral…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-11 Ignacio Sardinero , Jorge Cayao , Rubén Seoane Souto , Pablo Burset

We calculate the spatially resolved tunneling conductance of topological superconductors (TSCs) based on ferromagnetic chains, measured by means of spin-polarised scanning tunneling microscopy (SPSTM). Our analysis reveals novel signatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-22 Panagiotis Kotetes , Daniel Mendler , Andreas Heimes , Gerd Schön

Planar Josephson junctions are pivotal for engineering topological superconductivity, yet are severely hindered by orbital effects induced by in-plane magnetic fields. In this work, we introduce the generic topological altermagnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-07 Grant Z. X. Yang , Zi-Ting Sun , Ying-Ming Xie , K. T. Law

We consider a Josephson junction bilayer consisting of two tunnel-coupled two-dimensional electron gas layers with Rashba spin-orbit interaction, proximitized by a top and bottom $s$-wave superconductor with phase difference $\phi$ close to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-04 Yanick Volpez , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

The Josephson junction (JJ) is an essential element of superconducting (SC) devices for both fundamental and applied physics. The short-range coherent coupling of two adjacent JJs forms the Andreev molecule states (AMSs), which will provide…

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

Andreev bound states are an expression of quantum coherence between particles and holes in hybrid structures composed of superconducting and non-superconducting metallic parts. Their spectrum carries important information on the nature of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-28 Matthias Eschrig

We investigate superconducting quantum interference devices consisting of two highly transmissive Josephson junctions coupled by a superconducting loop, all defined in an epitaxial InAs/Al heterostructure. A novel device design allows for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 F. Nichele , E. Portolés , A. Fornieri , A. M. Whiticar , A. C. C. Drachmann , T. Wang , G. C. Gardner , C. Thomas , A. T. Hatke , M. J. Manfra , C. M. Marcus

It is shown that the low energy spectrum of mesoscopic superconductors coupled by Josephson interaction can be probed by two-electron tunneling from a normal electrode. The Andreev reflection in the NS junction of a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 F. W. J. Hekking , L. I. Glazman , Gerd Schoen

We study the emergent band topology of subgap Andreev bound states in the three-terminal Josephson junctions. We scrutinize the symmetry constraints of the scattering matrix in the normal region connecting superconducting leads that enable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Hong-Yi Xie , Maxim G. Vavilov , Alex Levchenko

We theoretically investigate the behavior of Andreev levels in a single-orbital interacting quantum dot in contact to superconducting leads, focusing on the effect of electrostatic gating and applied magnetic field, as relevant for recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-12 Nils Wentzell , Serge Florens , Tobias Meng , Volker Meden , Sabine Andergassen

A versatile control of magnetic systems, widely used to store information, can also enable manipulating Majorana bounds states (MBS) and implementing fault-tolerant quantum information processing. The proposed platform relies on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-23 Alex Matos-Abiague , Javad Shabani , Andrew D. Kent , Geoffrey L. Fatin , Benedikt Scharf , Igor Žutić

The realization and manipulation of Majorana zero modes is a key step in achieving topological quantum computation. In this paper, we demonstrate the existence of Majorana corner states in a superconductor-insulators-superconductor vertical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-17 Cheng-Ming Miao , Yu-Hao Wan , Ying-Tao Zhang , Qing-Feng Sun

We study phase-controlled planar Josephson junctions comprising a two-dimensional electron gas with strong spin-orbit coupling and d-wave superconductors, which have an advantage of high critical temperature. We show that a region between…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-08 Hamed Vakili , Moaz Ali , Mohamed Elekhtiar , Alexey A. Kovalev

Planar Josephson junctions comprising semiconductors with strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI) are promising platforms to host Majorana bound states (MBSs). Previous works on MBSs in planar Josephson junctions have focused on electron gases,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-30 Melina Luethi , Katharina Laubscher , Stefano Bosco , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

In this work we show that Rashba-based topological superconductor nanowires, where the spin-orbit coupling may change its sign, support three topological phases protected by chiral symmetry. When a superconducting phase gradient is applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Teemu Ojanen

We report on high-resolution differential conductance experiments on nanoscale superconductor/ferromagnet tunnel junctions with ultra-thin oxide tunnel barriers. We observe subgap conductance features which are symmetric with respect to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-14 F. Hübler , M. J. Wolf , T. Scherer , D. Wang , D. Beckmann , H. v. Löhneysen