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Dirac surface states in a topological insulator (TI) with proximity-induced superconductivity offer a promising platform for realizing topological superconductivity and Majorana physics. However, in TIs, the Josephson effect is usually…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Bomin Zhang , Xiaoda Liu , Junjie Qi , Ling-Jie Zhou , Deyi Zhuo , Han Tay , Hongtao Rong , Annie G. Wang , Zhiyuan Xi , Chao-Xing Liu , Chui-Zhen Chen , Cui-Zu Chang

The discovery that a gate electrode suppresses the supercurrent in purely metallic systems is missing a complete physical understanding of the mechanisms at play. We here study the origin of this reduction in a Superconductor-Normal…

Hybrid semiconductor/superconductor devices constitute an important platform for a wide range of applications, from quantum computing to topological-state-based architectures. Here, we demonstrate full modulation of the interference pattern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-21 Stefano Guiducci , Matteo Carrega , Fabio Taddei , Giorgio Biasiol , Hervé Courtois , Fabio Beltram , Stefan Heun

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

We study a phase-tunable four-terminal Josephson junction formed in an InSbAs two-dimensional electron gas proximitized by aluminum. By embedding the two pairs of junction terminals in asymmetric DC SQUIDs we can control the superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Christian G. Prosko , Wietze D. Huisman , Ivan Kulesh , Di Xiao , Candice Thomas , Michael J. Manfra , Srijit Goswami

The continuous development of superconducting electronics is encouraging several studies on hybrid Josephson junctions (JJs) based on superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor (SFS) heterostructures, as either spintronic devices or…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-20 H. G. Ahmad , R. Caruso , A. Pal , G. Rotoli , G. P. Pepe , M. G. Blamire , F. Tafuri , D. Massarotti

We demonstrate the first \textit{all-metallic} mesoscopic superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) field-effect controlled Josephson transistors (SNS-FETs) and show their full characterization from the critical temperature $T_c$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 Giorgio De Simoni , Federico Paolucci , Claudio Puglia , Francesco Giazotto

Carbon nanotube (CNT) Josephson junctions in the open quantum dot limit exhibit superconducting switching currents which can be controlled with a gate electrode. Shapiro voltage steps can be observed under radiofrequency current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. -P. Cleuziou , W. Wernsdorfer , S. Andergassen , S. Florens , V. Bouchiat , Th. Ondarcuhu , M. Monthioux

Planar Josephson junctions (JJs), based on common superconductors and III-V semiconductors, are sought for Majorana states and fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, with gate-tunable spin-orbit coupling (SOC), we show that the range of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-03 David Monroe , Chenghao Shen , Dario Tringali , Mohammad Alidoust , Tong Zhou , Igor Žutić

We investigate Josephson junctions among conventional superconducting wires, in the presence of externally applied Zeeman fields and supercurrents. We demonstrate that the critical Josephson current and the current-phase relation of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-02 Giorgos Livanas

In the past two years, magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a uniquely versatile experimental platform that combines metallic, superconducting, magnetic and insulating phases in a single crystal. In particular the ability to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Folkert K. de Vries , Elias Portoles , Giulia Zheng , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Peter Rickhaus

We study a circuit where a mesoscopic Josephson junction (JJ) is embedded in an environment consisting of a large bias resistor and a normal metal - superconductor tunnel junction (NIS). The effective Coulomb blockade of the JJ can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Hassel , J. Delahaye , H. Seppa , P. Hakonen

Control of the Josephson current by varying a gate current has recently been demonstrated in both 4-terminal and 3-terminal junctions. We show that, when the the gates are weakly coupled to the Josephson junction, the Josephson current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Tolga Ilhan , Philip F. Bagwell

Topological superconductors can support localized Majorana states at their boundaries. These quasi-particle excitations have non-Abelian statistics that can be used to encode and manipulate quantum information in a topologically protected…

Gate-tunable semiconductor-superconductor nanowires with superconducting leads form exotic Josephson junctions that are a highly desirable platform for two types of qubits: those with topological superconductivity (Majorana qubits) and…

Magnetic Josephson Junctions (MJJs) are a special class of hybrid systems where antagonistic correlations coexist, thus providing a key for advances in weak superconductivity, superconducting spintronics and quantum computation. So far, the…

Usually the magnetochiral anisotropy related Josephson diode effect is assumed to be based on conventional two-dimensional electron gas, such as the InAs quantum well. Here we propose a graphene-based Josephson junction as a broadly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-06 Chuan-Shuai Huang

The Josephson effect is one of the most studied macroscopic quantum phenomena in condensed matter physics and has been an essential part of the quantum technologies development over the last decades. It is already used in many applications…

We propose novel model system for the studies of superconductor-insulator transitions, which is a regular lattice, whose each link consists of Josephson-junction chain of $N \gg 1$ junctions in sequence. The theory of such an array is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-01 I. V. Protopopov , M. V. Feigel'man

We study the Josephson current, I_J, in a junction consisting of two s-wave superconductors that are separated by a ferromagnetic barrier possessing a magnetic and non-magnetic scattering potential, g and Z, respectively. We discuss the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-05-12 Boris Kastening , Dirk K. Morr , Lambert Alff , Karl Bennemann