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We analyze heat and charge transport through a single-level quantum dot coupled to two BCS superconductors at different temperatures to first order in the tunnel coupling. In order to describe the system theoretically, we extend a real-time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-28 Mathias Kamp , Björn Sothmann

We study the influence of superconducting correlations on the electronic specific heat in a diffusive superconductor-normal metal-superconductor Josephson junction. We present a description of this system in the framework of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-15 H. Rabani , F. Taddei , O. Bourgeois , R. Fazio , F. Giazotto

We study the Josephson current in a junction comprising two superconductors linked by a strong ferromagnet in presence of impurities. We focus on a regime where the electron (and hole) motion is ballistic over the exchange length and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Konschelle , J. Cayssol , A. Buzdin

We investigate the Josephson current through a suspended carbon nanotube double quantum dot which, at sufficiently low temperatures, is characterized by the ground state of the electronic subsystem. Depending on parameters like a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Robert Hussein , Wolfgang Belzig

Josephson current in superconductor/insulator/superconductor junction is studied theoretically. It is well known that when the zero-energy resonance state exists both side of superconducting interface, the behaver of the temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-30 Takashi Hirai

We present a theory for the Josephson effect in an unconventional superconductor / one-dimensional electron gas / unconventional superconductor (s/o/s) junction, where the Josephson current is carried by components injected perpendicular to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Yukio Tanaka , Takashi Hirai , Koichi Kusakabe , Satoshi Kashiwaya

Thermoelectric effects in metals are typically small due to the nearly-perfect particle-hole (PH) symmetry around their Fermi surface [1, 2]. Despite being initially considered paradoxical [3], thermophase effects [4-8] and linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Gaia Germanese , Federico Paolucci , Giampiero Marchegiani , Alessandro Braggio , Francesco Giazotto

We discuss the Josephson current between two noncentrosymmetric superconductors. The coexistence of superconducting order parameters between spin-singlet $\Delta_{\text{S}}$ and helical p-wave spin-triplet $\Delta_{\text{T}}$ enriches a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 Yasuhiro Asano , Satoshi Yamano

An intermittent Josephson effect in the form of voltage and temperature oscillations in the voltage - current curves near 2 K is observed in pellets consisting of superconducting TaC nanocapsules coated with graphite. This phenomenon is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-01-20 Dianyu Geng , Zhenhua Wang , Da Li , Zhidong Zhang , Xiaolin Wang

Employing quasiclassical theory of superconductivity combined with Keldysh technique we investigate large thermoelectric effect in multiterminal ballistic normal-superconducting (NS) hybrid structures. We argue that this effect is caused by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-01 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We carry out an extensive experimental and theoretical study of the Josephson effect in S-N-S junctions made of a diffusive normal metal (N) embedded between two superconducting electrodes (S). Our experiments are performed on Nb-Cu-Nb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Dubos , H. Courtois , B. Pannetier , F. K. Wilhelm , A. D. Zaikin , G. Schon

Superconducting diodes, characterized by nonreciprocal supercurrent transport, offer transformative opportunities for ultra-low-power circuits. However, achieving reliable operation at temperatures above liquid nitrogen remains a major…

We investigate the Josephson current in a single wall carbon nanotube connected to superconducting electrodes. We focus on the parameter regime in which transport is dominated by Kondo physics. A sizeable supercurrent is observed for odd…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-23 A. Eichler , R. Deblock , M. Weiss , C. Karrasch , V. Meden , C. Schonenberger , H. Bouchiat

A superconductor/normal metal/superconductor Josephson junction is a coherent electron system where the thermodynamic entropy depends on temperature and phase difference across the weak-link. Here, exploiting the phase-temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-04 Francesco Vischi , Matteo Carrega , Pauli Virtanen , Elia Strambini , Alessandro Braggio , Francesco Giazotto

We study chiral interface Andreev bound states and their influence on the Josephson current between clean superconductors. Possible examples are superconducting Sr2RuO4 and the B-phase of the heavy-fermion superconductor UPt3. We show that,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu. S. Barash , A. M. Bobkov , M. Fogelstrom

We study the subgap spectrum of the interacting single-level quantum dot coupled between two superconducting reservoirs, forming the Josephson-type circuit, and additionally hybridized with a metallic normal lead. This system allows for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 Tadeusz Domański , Martin Žonda , Vladislav Pokorný , Grzegorz Górski , Václav Janiš , Tomáš Novotný

In this paper we extend our earlier analysis of the novel Josephson effect in triplet superconductor--ferromagnet--triplet superconductor (TFT) junctions [B. Kastening \emph{et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf{96}}, 047009 (2006)]. In our more…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-01-26 P. M. R. Brydon , Boris Kastening , Dirk K. Morr , Dirk Manske

A Josephson junction (JJ) has been under intensive study ever since 1960's. Yet even in the present era of building quantum information processing devices based on many JJs, open questions regarding a single junction remain unsolved, such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Bayan Karimi , Gorm Ole Steffensen , Andrew P. Higginbotham , Charles M. Marcus , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Jukka P. Pekola

We investigate the thermal transport properties of a temperature-biased Josephson tunnel junction composed of two different superconductors. We show that this simple system can provide a large negative differential thermal conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 Antonio Fornieri , Giuliano Timossi , Riccardo Bosisio , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto

The Josephson effect represents perhaps the prototype of macroscopic phase coherence and is at the basis of the most widespread interferometer, i.e., the superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). Yet, in analogy to electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-21 F. Giazotto , M. J. Martinez-Perez