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The Josephson effect characterizes superfluids and superconductors separated by a weak link, the so-called Josephson junction. A recent experiment has shown that Josephson oscillations can be observed also in a supersolid, where the weak…

We investigate the impact of introducing Majorana bound states, formed by a proximitized semiconducting nanowire in the topological regime, into a current biased capacitive Josephson junction, thereby adding delocalized states below the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Ian J. van Beek , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Bernd Braunecker

We explore a spin Josephson effect in a system of two ferromagnets coupled by a tunnel junction formed of 2D time-reversal invariant topological insulators. In analogy with the more commonly studied instance of the Josephson effect for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Qinglei Meng , Vasudha Shivamoggi , Taylor L. Hughes , Matthew J. Gilbert , Smitha Vishveshwara

We study the Josephson current in two types of lateral junctions with spin-orbit coupling and an exchange field. The first system (type 1 junction) consists of superconductors with heavy metal interlayers linked by a ferromagnetic bridge,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-01 B. Bujnowski , R. Biele , F. S. Bergeret

We analyze a perturbation of the boundary Sine-Gordon model where two boundary terms of different periodicities and scaling dimensions are coupled to a Kondo-like spin degree of freedom. We show that, by pertinently engineering the coupling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 Domenico Giuliano , Pasquale Sodano

We study Josephson junctions based on second-order topological superconductors (SOTSs) which can be realized in quantum spin Hall insulators with large inverted gap in proximity to unconventional superconductors. We find that tuning the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-22 Song-Bo Zhang , Björn Trauzettel

The Josephson junction of a strong spin-orbit material under a magnetic field is a promising Majorana fermion candidate. Supercurrent enhancement by a magnetic field has been observed in the InAs nanowire Josephson junctions and assigned to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Yosuke Sato , Kento Ueda , Yuusuke Takeshige , Hiroshi Kamata , Kan Li , Lars Samuelson , Hongqi Xu , Sadashige Matsuo , Seigo Tarucha

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

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 determine the current-phase relation (CPR) of two-terminal configurations of Josephson junctions containing two-dimensional (2D) time-reversal invariant topological superconductors (TRITOPS), including TRITOPS-TRITOPS, as well as…

We study the boundary Majorana modes for the single component p-wave weak topological superconductors or superfluids, which form zero energy flat bands protected by time-reversal symmetry in the orbital channel. However, due to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-20 Yi Li , Da Wang , Congjun Wu

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

Topological superconductivity supports exotic Majorana bound states (MBS) which are chargeless zero-energy emergent quasiparticles. With their non-Abelian exchange statistics and fractionalization of a single electron stored nonlocally as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Tong Zhou , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , William Mayer , Jong E. Han , Alex Matos-Abiague , Javad Shabani , Igor Zutic

We study a time-reversal-invariant topological superconductor island hosting spatially separated Majorana Kramers pairs, with weak tunnel couplings to two s-wave superconducting leads. When the topological superconductor island is in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Constantin Schrade , Liang Fu

We study a graphene Josephson junction where the inner graphene layer is subjected to spin-orbit coupling by proximity effect. This could be achieved, for example, by growing the graphene layer on top of a transition metal dichalcogenide,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Federico Bonasera , Giuseppe A. Falci , Elisabetta Paladino , Francesco M. D. Pellegrino

We discuss correlated lattice models with a time-dependent potential across a barrier and show how to implement a Josephson-junction-like behavior. The pairing occurs by a correlation effect enhanced by the symmetry of the system. In order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefano Bellucci , Michele Cini , Pasquale Onorato , Enrico Perfetto

Among the potential applications of topological insulators, we theoretically study the coexistence of proximity-induced ferromagnetic and superconducting orders in the surface states of a 3-dimensional topological insulator. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Maryam Khezerlou , Hadi Goudarzi , Samin Asgarifar

It has been predicted that superconducting junctions made with topological nanowires hosting Majorana bound states (MBS) exhibit an anomalous 4\pi-periodic Josephson effect. Finding an experimental setup with these unconventional properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-20 Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada , Ramon Aguado

The breaking of time-reversal symmetry in a triplet superconductor Josephson junction is shown to cause a magnetic instability of the tunneling barrier. Using a Ginzburg-Landau analysis of the free energy, we predict that this novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-13 P. M. R. Brydon , Christian Iniotakis , Dirk Manske , M. Sigrist

To guide the search for the Majorana fermion, we theoretically study superconductor/topological/superconductor (S/TI/S) junctions in an experimentally relevant regime. We find that the striking features present in these systems, including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-01 M. Snelder , M. Veldhorst , A. A. Golubov , A. Brinkman