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We report supercurrent transport measurements in hybrid Josephson junctions comprised of semiconducting InAs nanowires with epitaxial ferromagnetic insulator EuS and superconducting Al coatings. The wires display a hysteretic…

Recent improvements in materials growth and fabrication techniques may finally allow for superconducting semiconductors to realize their potential. Here we build on a recent proposal to construct superconducting devices such as wires,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-13 Yun-Pil Shim , Charles Tahan

We demonstrate that superconducting aluminium nano-bridges can be driven into a state with complete suppression of the critical supercurrent via electrostatic gating. Probing both in- and out-of-plane magnetic field responses in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-18 Lennart Bours , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Mario Cuoco , Elia Strambini , Francesco Giazotto

Josephson tunnel junctions are proposed as efficient phase-tunable thermal rectifiers. The latter exploit the strong temperature dependence of the superconducting density of states and phase-dependence of heat currents flowing through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-20 M. J. Martinez-Perez , F. Giazotto

The p-n junction diode and field-effect transistor (FET) are the two most ubiquitous building blocks of modern electronics and optoelectronics. In recent years, the emergence of reduced dimensionality materials has suggested that these…

Electric transport of double gated bilayer graphene devices is studied as a function of charge density and bandgap. A top gate electrode can be used to control locally the Fermi level to create a pn junction between the double-gated and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-06 Hiroki Shioya , Michihisa Yamamoto , Saverio Russo , Monica F. Craciun , Seigo Tarucha

Recent advances have attracted attention to non-standard Josephson junctions in which a supercurrent can flow despite zero phase difference between the constituent superconducting leads. Here, we propose a zero-phase-difference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 A. M. Eriksson , A. Vikström

Josephson junctions with three or more superconducting leads have been predicted to exhibit topological effects in the presence of few conducting modes within the interstitial normal material. Such behavior, of relevance for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Gino V. Graziano , Joon Sue Lee , Mihir Pendharkar , Chris Palmstrøm , Vlad S. Pribiag

We study charge transport in voltage-biased single-channel junctions involving helical superconductors with finite Cooper pair momentum. For a Josephson junction, the equilibrium current-phase relation shows a superconducting diode effect:…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-08 A. Zazunov , J. Rech , T. Jonckheere , B. Grémaud , T. Martin , R. Egger

Superconducting electronics offer significant advantages in speed and power efficiency for next-generation computing and communication systems. However, their practical deployment is limited by the absence of simple, efficient, and scalable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-01 Razmik A. Hovhannisyan , Amirreza Lotfian , Taras Golod , Vladimir M. Krasnov

In this study, we examined the supercurrent diode effect (SDE) in mesoscopic superconducting weak links formed by asymmetric Dayem bridges. These planar metallic constrictions, which naturally exhibit Josephsonlike behavior, offer a…

Three-dimensional topological Dirac semimetals have recently gained significant attention, since they possess exotic quantum states. When constructing Josephson junctions utilizing these materials as the weak link, the fractional ac…

We propose a novel Josephson device in which 0 and $\pi$ states are controlled by an electrical current. In this system, the $\pi$ state appears in a superconductor/normal metal/superconductor junction due to the non-local spin accumulation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Yamashita , S. Takahashi , S. Maekawa

Recently Baselmans et al. [Nature, 397, 43 (1999)] showed that the direction of the supercurrent in a superconductor/normal/superconductor Josephson junction can be reversed by applying, perpendicularly to the supercurrent, a sufficiently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jian Huang , F. Pierre , Tero T. Heikkila , Frank K. Wilhelm , Norman O. Birge

A quantum dot weakly coupled to two normal metal leads exhibits resonant transmission when one of the dot energy levels lies within the applied bias window. But when the quantum dot is sidecoupled to the transport channel, transmission in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Abhiram Soori

Graphene-based Josephson junctions played an important role in various quantum devices from their inception. Magnetic tunnel junctions or vertical devices were also made out of graphene by exposing the graphene layer to localised pattern of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-25 Partha Sarathi Banerjee , Rahul Marathe , Sankalpa Ghosh

In spite of extended efforts, detecting thermoelectric effects in superconductors have proven to be a challenging task, due to the inherent superconducting particle-hole symmetry. Here we present a theoretical study of an experimentally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-01 Yaakov Kleeorin , Yigal Meir , Francesco Giazotto , Yonatan Dubi

Short ballistic graphene Josephson junctions sustain superconducting current with a non-sinusoidal current-phase relation up to a critical current threshold. The current-phase relation, arising from proximitized superconductivity, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-09 Francesco M. D. Pellegrino , Giuseppe Falci , Elisabetta Paladino

We theoretically investigate the supercurrent flow in a Josephson junction consisting of two spin-split superconductors combined by a normal metal weak link. The normal metal may be driven out of equilibrium, thus modifying the electron and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-06 Chi Sun , Jacob Linder

High-quality III-V narrow band gap semiconductor materials with strong spin-orbit coupling and large Lande g-factor provide a promising platform for next-generation applications in the field of high-speed electronics, spintronics, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-30 Sedighe Salimian , Matteo Carrega , Isha Verma , Valentina Zannier , Michal P. Nowak , Fabio Beltram , Lucia Sorba , Stefan Heun