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We study nonlocal thermoelectricity in a superconducting wire subject to spin-orbit coupling and a magnetic field with a relative orientation $\theta$ between them. We calculate the current flowing in a normal probe attached to the bulk of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Juan Herrera Mateos , Leandro Tosi , Alessandro Braggio , Fabio Taddei , Liliana Arrachea

We propose that a device composed of two vertically stacked monolayer graphene Josephson junctions can be used for Cooper pair splitting. The hybridization of the Andreev bound states of the two Josephson junction can facilitate non-local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Eduárd Zsurka , Noel Plaszkó , Péter Rakyta , Andor Kormányos

We propose a new platform for observing the Josephson diode effect: the Andreev molecule. This nonlocal electronic state is hosted in circuits made of two closely spaced Josephson junctions, through the hybridization of the Andreev states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-22 J. -D. Pillet , S. Annabi , A. Peugeot , H. Riechert , E. Arrighi , J. Griesmar , L. Bretheau

A Josephson junction (JJ) is a key device in the development of superconducting circuits, wherein a supercurrent in the JJ is controlled by the phase difference between the two superconducting electrodes. Recently, it has been shown that…

We investigate the noise current in a thermally biased tunnel junction between two superconductors with different zero-temperature gaps. When the Josephson effect is suppressed, this structure can support a nonlinear thermoelectric effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 G. Marchegiani , A. Braggio , F. Giazotto

Josephson junctions fabricated on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators (TI) show a few unusual properties distinct from conventional Josephson junctions. In these devices, the Josephson coupling and the supercurrent are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-01-18 Christopher T. Olund , Erhai Zhao

We explore the phase-dependent charge and heat current in the short Josephson junctions with two normal metal regions attached at opposite ends, formed at helical edge states of two-dimensional topological insulators (TIs). For all finite…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-14 Paramita Dutta

We theoretically investigate coherent oscillations of the thermopower $\mathcal{S}$ as a function of the magnetic flux $\Phi$ in six-terminal Andreev interferometers. We demonstrate that the thermopower behavior is determined by a number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-16 Pavel E. Dolgirev , Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We study Josephson junctions between superconductors connected through the helical edge states of a two-dimensional topological insulator in the presence of a magnetic barrier. As the equilibrium Andreev bound states of the junction are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Driss M. Badiane , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer

Not so long ago, thermoelectricity in superconductors was believed to be possible only by breaking explicitly the particle-hole symmetry. Recently, it has been theoretically predicted that a superconducting tunnel junction can develop…

In the linear regime, thermo-electric effects between two conductors are possible only in the presence of an explicit breaking of the electron-hole symmetry. We consider a tunnel junction between two electrodes and show that this condition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 G. Marchegiani , A. Braggio , F. Giazotto

Using a new second derivative technique and thermometers which enable us to determine the local electron temperature in a mesoscopic metallic sample, we have obtained quantitative measurements of the low temperature field and temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. A. Dikin , S. Jung , V. Chandrasekhar

Thermoelectric effects result from the coupling of charge and heat transport, and can be used for thermometry, cooling and harvesting of thermal energy. The microscopic origin of thermoelectric effects is a broken electron-hole symmetry,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-08 S. Kolenda , P. Machon , D. Beckmann , W. Belzig

A temperature gradient ${\Delta}T$ across a Josephson junction induces a thermoelectric current. We predict the AC Josephson effect is activated when this current surpasses the junction's critical current. Our investigation of this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-03 Olli Mansikkamäki , Francesco Giazotto , Alexander Balatsky

The atomic variations of electronic wavefunctions at the surface and electron scattering near a defect have been detected unprecedentedly by tracing thermoelectric voltages given a temperature bias [Cho et al., Nature Mater. 12, 913…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 Eui-Sup Lee , Sanghee Cho , Ho-Ki Lyeo , Yong-Hyun Kim

We demonstrate that phase-dependent heat currents through superconductor-topological insulator Josephson junctions provide a useful tool to probe the existence of topological Andreev bound states, even for multi-channel surface states. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 Björn Sothmann , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

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 analogy to conventional semiconductor diodes, the Josephson diode exhibits superconducting properties that are asymmetric in applied bias. The effect has been investigated in number of systems recently, and requires a combination of…

The proximity effect in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor structures, crucial for realizing Majorana edge modes, is complicated to control due to its dependence on many unknown microscopic parameters. In addition, defects can spoil the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-26 T. Ö. Rosdahl , A. Vuik , M. Kjaergaard , A. R. Akhmerov

Recent experimental advancements in dissipation control have yielded significant insights into non-hermitian Hamiltonians for open quantum systems. Of particular interest are the topological characteristics exhibited by these non-hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 David Christian Ohnmacht , Valentin Wilhelm , Hannes Weisbrich , Wolfgang Belzig