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A Josephson diode is a superconducting circuit element that enables non-reciprocal transport, allowing a dissipationless supercurrent to preferentially flow in a single direction. Existing methods for achieving the required symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 David Scheer , Rubén Seoane Souto , Fabian Hassler , Jeroen Danon

We present a theory of a flux-tunable superconducting qubit, the "Fraunhofer qubit," based on the Fraunhofer interference in a wide ballistic Josephson junction. As magnetic flux threads the junction, the Josephson potential is effectively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Longyu Ma , Tony Liu , Javad Shabani , Kasra Sardashti , Vladimir E. Manucharyan , Maxim G. Vavilov

We discuss the effects of thermal noise on the magnetic response of a lateral ferromagnetic Josephson junction with spin-orbit coupling and out-of-plane magnetization. The direction of the magnetic moment in the ferromagnetic layer can be…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-29 C Guarcello , FS Bergeret

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

The critical current response to an applied out-of-plane magnetic field in a Josephson junction provides insight into the uniformity of its current distribution. In Josephson junctions with semiconducting weak links, the carrier density…

We study the pi phase in a superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor Josephson junction, with a ferromagnet showing a cycloidal spiral spin modulation with in-plane propagation vector. Our results reveal a high sensitivity of the junction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-02-21 Thierry Champel , Tomas Löfwander , Matthias Eschrig

In a standard Josephson junction the current is zero when the phase difference between the superconducting leads is zero. This condition is protected by parity and time-reversal symmetries. However, the combined presence of spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 William Mayer , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , Joseph Yuan , Kaushini S. Wickramasinghe , Enrico Rossi , Javad Shabani

Two-dimensional arrays of superconductors separated by normal metallic regions exhibit rich phenomenology and a high degree of controllability. We establish such systems as platforms for topological phases of matter, and in particular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Omri Lesser , Ady Stern , Yuval Oreg

Nonreciprocal superconducting devices have attracted growing interest in recent years as they potentially enable directional charge transport for applications in superconducting quantum circuits. Specifically, the superconducting diode…

We study theoretically dynamics in a Josephson junction coupled to a mechanical resonator looking at the signatures of the resonance in d.c. electrical response of the junction. Such a system can be realized experimentally as a suspended…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-07 C. Padurariu , C. J. H. Keijzers , Yu. V. Nazarov

We study the Josephson effect between a conventional s-wave superconductor and a non-centrosymmetric superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Rashba spin-orbit coupling affects the Josephson pair tunneling in a characteristic way.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-06-06 N. Hayashi , C. Iniotakis , M. Machida , M. Sigrist

A superconducting transmon qubit resilient to strong magnetic fields is an important component for proposed topological and hybrid quantum computing (QC) schemes. Transmon qubits consist of a Josephson junction (JJ) shunted by a large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-20 J. G. Kroll , W. Uilhoorn , K. L. van der Enden , D. de Jong , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , S. Goswami , M. C. Cassidy , L. P. Kouwenhoven

We study the spin nutation effects of the molecular nanomagnet on the Josephson current through a superconductor$|$molecular nanomagnet$|$superconductor tunnel junction. We explicitly demonstrate that due to the spin nutation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Abouie , B. Abdollahipour , A. A. Rostami

We present a theoretical study of the spin-resolved Josephson diode effect in junctions comprising strongly spin-polarized conical magnets (FM) coupled to singlet superconductors (SC). The system is treated by making use of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-11 Danilo Nikolić , Niklas L. Schulz , Alexander I. Buzdin , Matthias Eschrig

Planar Josephson junctions in a magnetic field exhibit the superconducting diode effect, by which the critical current magnitude depends on the polarity of the transport current. A number of different mechanisms for the effect have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 William F. Schiela , Melissa Mikalsen , William M. Strickland , Javad Shabani

We consider a superconducting half-wavelength resonator that is grounded at its both ends and contains a single Josephson junction. Previously this circuit was considered as a unimon qubit in the single-mode approximation where…

Josephson junctions enable dissipation-less electrical current through metals and insulators below a critical current. Despite being central to quantum technology based on superconducting quantum bits and fundamental research into…

We study the superconducting Josephson junction diode operating via the magnetic field of skyrmions. Inspired by the near-field optical microscopy, we propose to partially screen the magnetic field and analyze part-by-part the magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-17 A. Sinner , X. -G. Wang , S. S. P. Parkin , A. Ernst , V. Dugaev , L. Chotorlishvili

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

We study the Josephson effect in a superconductor--ferromagnet--superconductor (SFS) junction with ferromagnetic domains of non-collinear magnetization. As a model for our study we consider a diffusive junction with two ferromagnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Crouzy , S. Tollis , D. A. Ivanov