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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…

Hybrid superconductor/semiconductor devices constitute a powerful platform where intriguing topological properties can be investigated. Here we present fabrication methods and analysis of Josephson junctions formed by a high-mobility InAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 Stefano Guiducci , Matteo Carrega , Giorgio Biasiol , Lucia Sorba , Fabio Beltram , Stefan Heun

The Josephson rectification effect, where the resistance is finite in one direction while zero in the other, has been recently realized experimentally. The resulting Josephson diode has many potential applications on superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-14 Bo Lu , Satoshi Ikegaya , Pablo Burset , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

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

The rise of topological phases of matter is strongly connected to their potential to host Majorana bound states, a powerful ingredient in the search for a robust, topologically protected, quantum information processing. In order to produce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Erwann Bocquillon , Jonas Wiedenmann , Russell S. Deacon , Teunis M. Klapwijk , Hartmut Buhmann , Laurens W. Molenkamp

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 Andreev bound state spectra of multi-terminal Josephson junctions form an artificial band structure, which is predicted to host tunable topological phases under certain conditions. However, the number of conductance modes between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 Gino V. Graziano , Mohit Gupta , Mihir Pendharkar , Jason T. Dong , Connor P. Dempsey , Chris Palmstrøm , Vlad S. Pribiag

We study a multi-terminal Josephson junction based on an interacting quantum dot coupled to $n$ superconducting BCS leads. Using an Anderson type model of a local level with an arbitrary onsite Coulomb repulsion, we uncover its surprising…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Peter Zalom , Martin Žonda , T. Novotný

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

We investigate the topological properties of a Josephson junction obtained by constraining a two-dimensional electron gas at oxide interface to form a quasi-1D conductor. We reveal an anomalous critical current behaviour with a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Alfonso Maiellaro , Jacopo Settino , Claudio Guarcello , Francesco Romeo , Roberta Citro

In superconductor-topological insulator-superconductor hybrid junctions, the barrier edge states are expected to be protected against backscattering, to generate unconventional proximity effects, and, possibly, to signal the presence of…

The Josephson effect describes the generic appearance of a supercurrent in a weak link between two superconductors. Its exact physical nature however deeply influences the properties of the supercurrent. Detailed studies of Josephson…

The macroscopic quantum interference effects in ballistic Josephson microstructures are investigated. The studied system consists of four bulk superconductors (terminals) which are weakly coupled through the mesoscopic rectangular normal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. N. Omelyanchouk , Malek Zareyan

We study the Josephson effect in the multiterminal junction of topological superconductors. We use the symmetry-constrained scattering matrix approach to derive band dispersions of emergent sub-gap Andreev bound states in a multidimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-03 Hong-Yi Xie , Alex Levchenko

We investigate the Josephson transport properties in a Josephson junction consisting of a conventional $s$-wave superconductor coupled to a multi-orbital noncentrosymmetric superconductor marked by an orbitally driven inversion asymmetry…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-21 Yuri Fukaya , Yada Keiji , Yukio Tanaka , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco

Semiconductor-based Josephson junctions provide a platform for studying proximity effect due to the possibility of tuning junction properties by gate voltage and large-scale fabrication of complex Josephson circuits. Recently Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 William Mayer , Joseph Yuan , Kaushini Wickramasinghe , Tri Nguyen , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , Javad Shabani

We demonstrate top-gate tunable Josephson junction like behavior in the two dimensional electron gas at the LaAlO$_3$-SrTiO$_3$ interface. A combination of global back-gating and local top-gating is used to define the junctions, providing…

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

We theoretically investigate how the spin susceptibility of a planar Josephson junction is affected when the system transits into the topological superconducting state. We show that the magnetic flux and magnetic field dependence of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-04 Joseph D. Pakizer , Alex Matos-Abiague

Two dimensional SrTiO3-based interfaces stand out among non-centrosymmetric superconductors due to their intricate interplay of gate tunable Rashba spin-orbit coupling and multi-orbital electronic occupations, whose combination…