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Vertical integration of superconducting electronics requires fabrication strategies that preserve pristine interfaces while accommodating oxidation-sensitive elemental superconductors. However, existing van der Waals-based vertical…

We explore vortex dynamics in a two-dimensional Josephson junction array of micron-size superconducting islands fabricated from an epitaxial Al/InAs superconductor-semiconductor heterostructure, with a global top gate controlling Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-22 C. G. L. Bøttcher , F. Nichele , J. Shabani , C. J. Palmstrøm , C. M. Marcus

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

Recent experimental advances have unveiled promising evidence of vortex-bound Majorana quasiparticles in multiple superconducting compounds. However, theoretical progress in understanding these phenomena, especially from ab initio…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-10 Zhuo Chen , Jiangxu Li , Lun-Hui Hu , Zhen Bi , Rui-Xing Zhang

Superconductor-insulator-superconductor tunnel junctions have been fabricated on MgB2 that display Josephson and quasiparticle currents. These junctions exhibit a gap magnitude, Delta~2.5 meV, that is considerably smaller than the BCS…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Schmidt , J. F. Zasadzinski , K. E. Gray , D. G. Hinks

Gate-tunable Josephson junctions (JJs) are the backbone of superconducting classical and quantum computation. Typically, these systems exploit low charge concentration materials, and present technological diffculties limiting their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Federico Paolucci , Francesco Vischi , Giorgio De Simoni , Claudio Guarcello , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto

Circuits using superconducting single-photon detectors and Josephson junctions to perform signal reception, synaptic weighting, and integration are investigated. The circuits convert photon-detection events into flux quanta, the number of…

Planar Josephson junctions (JJs) have emerged as a promising platform for the realization of topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes. To obtain robust quasi one-dimensional (1D) topological superconducting states using planar…

The narrow bandgap of semiconductors allows for thick, uniform Josephson junction barriers, potentially enabling reproducible, stable, and compact superconducting qubits. We study vertically stacked van der Waals Josephson junctions with…

Ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs) leverage polarization-dependent tunneling through ultrathin barriers to enable two-terminal, non-volatile memory and logic. Although conceptually appealing, the practical implementation of conventional…

Antiferromagnetic Tunnel Junctions (AFMTJs) enable picosecond switching and femtojoule writes through ultrafast sublattice dynamics. We present the first end-to-end AFMTJ simulation framework integrating multi-sublattice…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yousuf Choudhary , Tosiron Adegbija

Superconductivity provides a canonical example of a quantum phase of matter. When superconducting islands are connected by Josephson junctions in a lattice, the low temperature state of the system can map to the celebrated XY model and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 R. Cosmic , Hiroki Ikegami , Zhirong Lin , Kunihiro Inomata , Jacob M. Taylor , Yasunobu Nakamura

The interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism has long been pursued as a route to unconventional Josephson effects, yet suitable material platforms remain limited. Here we report Josephson junctions based on epitaxial…

This article demonstrates a new kind of programmable logic for the representation of an integer that can be used for the programmable Josephson voltage standard. It can enable the numbers of junctions in most bits to be variable integer…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Wenhui Cao , Erkun Yang , Jinjin Li , Guanhua She , Yuan Zhong , Qing Zhong , Da Xu , Xueshen Wang , Xiaolong Xu , Shijian Wang , Jian Chen

We study the electrical transport of vertically-stacked Josephson tunnel junctions using GdBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-d}$ electrodes and a BaTiO$_3$ barrier with thicknesses between 1 nm and 3 nm. The junctions with an area of 20 mm x 20 mm were…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-23 H. Navarro , M. Sirena , Jeehoon Kim , N. Haberkorn

In this paper we extend our earlier analysis of the novel Josephson effect in triplet superconductor--ferromagnet--triplet superconductor (TFT) junctions [B. Kastening \emph{et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf{96}}, 047009 (2006)]. In our more…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-01-26 P. M. R. Brydon , Boris Kastening , Dirk K. Morr , Dirk Manske

The fractional Josephson effect is known to be a characteristic phenomenon of topological Josephson junctions hosting Majorana zero modes (MZMs), where the Josephson current has a $4\pi$ (rather than a $2\pi$) periodicity in the phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-01 Shuntaro Sumita , Akira Furusaki

Increasing integration scale of superconductor electronics (SCE) requires employing kinetic inductors and self-shunted Josephson junctions (JJs) for miniaturizing inductors and JJs. We have been developing a ten-superconductor-layer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-02 Sergey K. Tolpygo , Ravi Rastogi , David Kim , Terence J. Weir , Neel Parmar , Evan B. Golden

Scalable memories that can match the speeds of superconducting logic circuits have long been desired to enable a superconducting computer. A superconducting loop that includes a Josephson junction can store a flux quantum state in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Lei Chen , Lili Wu , Yue Wang , Yinping Pan , Denghui Zhang , Junwen Zeng , Xiaoyu Liu , Linxian Ma , Wei Peng , Yihua Wang , Jie Ren , Zhen Wang

We report measurements of the current-phase relation of two voltage-controlled semiconductor-superconductor hybrid Josephson junctions (JJs) in series. The two hybrid junctions behave similar to a single-mode JJ with effective transparency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 L. Banszerus , W. Marshall , C. W. Andersson , T. Lindemann , M. J. Manfra , C. M. Marcus , S. Vaitiekėnas
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