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We study the stationary Josephson current in a junction between a topological and an ordinary (topologically trivial) superconductor. Such an S-TS junction hosts a Majorana zero mode that significantly influences the current-phase relation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 P. A. Ioselevich , P. M. Ostrovsky , M. V. Feigelman

Huang's experiment [Phys. Rev. Lett. $\bf 109$, 156802 (2012)] found, in the quantum Hall bilayer of the Corbino geometry, the interlayer tunneling currents at two edges are coupled to each other and one of two tunneling currents is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-10 Ya-Fen Hsu , Jung-Jung Su

Establishment of phase-coherence and a non-dissipative (super)current between two weakly coupled superconductors, known as the Josephson effect, plays a foundational role in basic physics and applications to metrology, precision sensing,…

Eutectic Sr$_2$RuO$_4$-Ru samples with $\mu$m-sized Ru-metal inclusions support inhomogeneous superconductivity above the bulk transition of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ in the so-called 3-Kelvin phase. In Pb/Ru/Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ Josephson junctions as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-08-05 Sarah B. Etter , Hirono Kaneyasu , Matthias Ossadnik , Manfred Sigrist

In this study, we explore the Josephson current-phase relation within a planar diffuse tunneling superconducting multilayer junction subjected to a parallel magnetic field. Our investigation involves computing the supercurrent associated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-19 A. S. Osin , Alex Levchenko , Maxim Khodas

We study theoretically the Josephson effect in junctions based on unconventional superconductors with diffusive barriers, using the quasiclassical Green's function formalism. Generalized boundary conditions at junction interfaces applicable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Yokoyama , Y. Tanaka , A. A. Golubov

We present a detailed study of nonequilibrium Josephson currents and conductance in ballistic multiterminal SNS-devices. Nonequilibrium is created by means of quasiparticle injection from a normal reservoir connected to the normal part of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Samuelsson , J. Lantz , V. S. Shumeiko , G. Wendin

We investigate the Josephson radiation emitted by a junction made of a quantum dot coupled to two conventional superconductors. Close to resonance, the particle-hole symmetric Andreev states that form in the junction are detached from the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-08-05 Baptiste Lamic , Julia S. Meyer , Manuel Houzet

We compute the critical Josephson current through a single-molecule junction. As a model for a molecule with a bistable conformational degree of freedom, we study an interacting single-level quantum dot coupled to a two-level system and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Andreas Schulz , Alex Zazunov , Reinhold Egger

Effects of non-magnetic randomness on the critical temperature T_c and diamagnetism are studied in a class of quasi-one dimensional superconductors. The energy of Josephson-coupling between wires is considered to be random, which is typical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-14 E. P. Nakhmedov , R. Oppermann

Junctions created by coupling two superconductors via a semiconductor nanowire in the presence of high magnetic fields are the basis for detection, fusion, and braiding of Majorana bound states. We study NbTiN/InSb nanowire/NbTiN Josephson…

Biasing a three-terminal Josephson junction (TTJ) with symmetrical voltages $0,V,-V$ leads to new kinds of DC currents, namely quartet Josephson currents and phase-dependent multiple Andreev reflection (MAR) currents. We study these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-14 T. Jonckheere , J. Rech , C. Padurariu , L. Raymond , T. Martin , D. Feinberg

Chaotic features of systems of coupled Josephson junctions are studied. Manifestation of chaos in the temporal dependence of the electric charge, related to a parametric resonance, is demonstrated through the calculation of the maximal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-05 Yu. M. Shukrinov , M. Hamdipour , M. R. Kolahchi , A. E. Botha , M. Suzuki

General multi-channel SN junctions fall into two topological classes depending on whether or not there is a Majorana mode localized at the junction. This is known to lead to different behaviour of the conductance in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 Yashar Komijani , Ian Affleck

We have identified anomalous behavior of the escape rate out of the zero-voltage state in Josephson junctions with a high critical current density Jc. For this study we have employed YBa2Cu3O7-x grain boundary junctions, which span a wide…

Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems provide a promising platform for hosting unpaired Majorana fermions towards the realisation of fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. In this study, we employ the Keldysh Non-Equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Praveen Sriram , Sandesh S Kalantre , Kaveh Gharavi , Jonathan Baugh , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

The Josephson supercurrent in a Nb-InAs nanowire-Nb junction was studied experimentally. The nanowire goes superconducting due to the proximity effect, and can sustain a phase coherent supercurrent. An unexpected modulation of the junction…

We study long Josephson junctions with the critical current density alternating along the junction. New equilibrium states, which we call the field synchronized or FS states, are shown to exist if the applied field is from narrow intervals…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Moshe , R. G. Mints

Josephson junctions based on quantum dots offer a convenient tunability by means of local gates. Here we analyze a Josephson junction based on a serial double quantum dot in which the two dots are individually gated by phase-shifted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Carlos Ortega-Taberner , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Jens Paaske

We report anomalous enhancement of the critical current at low temperatures in gate-tunable Josephson junctions made from topological insulator BiSbTeSe$_2$ nanoribbons with superconducting Nb electrodes. In contrast to conventional…