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Microwave irradiation of Nb-InAs-Nb junctions reveals frequency-doubled Josephson currents which persist to high temperatures, in the absence of a critical current. A nonequilibrium dynamical model, based on time-dependent Andreev bound…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 K. W. Lehnert , N. Argaman , H. -R. Blank , K. C. Wong , S. J. Allen , E. L. Hu , H. Kroemer

The Josephson effect in p-wave superconductor / diffusive normal metal / p-wave superconductor junctions is studied theoretically. Amplitudes of Josephson currents are several orders of magnitude larger than those in s-wave junctions.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Yasuhiro Asano , Yukio Tanaka , Satoshi Kashiwaya

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

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…

The modern primary voltage standard is based on the AC Josephson effect and the ensuing Shapiro steps, where a microwave tone applied to a Josephson junction yields a constant voltage $hf/2e$ ($h$ is Planck's constant and $e$ the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Nicolò Crescini , Samuel Cailleaux , Wiebke Guichard , Cécile Naud , Olivier Buisson , Kater Murch , Nicolas Roch

We study the Josephson effect in the multiterminal junction of topological superconductors. We use the symmetry-constrained scattering matrix approach to derive band dispersions of emergent sub-gap Andreev bound states in a multidimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-03 Hong-Yi Xie , Alex Levchenko

We investigate the direction-dependent switching current in a flux-tunable four-terminal Josephson junction defined in an InAs/Al two-dimensional heterostructure. The device exhibits the Josephson diode effect, with switching currents that…

Multi-gap superconductors can exhibit qualitatively new phenomena due to existence of multiple order parameters. Repulsive electronic interactions may give rise to a phase difference of $\pi$ between the phases of the order parameters.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 D. F. Agterberg , Eugene Demler , B. Janko

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

We predict a novel type of Josephson effect to occur in triplet superconductor - ferromagnet - triplet superconductor Josephson junctions. We show that the Josephson current, I_J, exhibits a rich dependence on the relative orientation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Boris Kastening , Dirk K. Morr , Dirk Manske , Karl Bennemann

A Josephson diode is a non-reciprocal circuit element that supports a larger dissipationless supercurrent in one direction than in the other. In this work, we propose and theoretically study a class of Josephson diodes based on supercurrent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Rubén Seoane Souto , Martin Leijnse , Constantin Schrade

We investigate the Josephson diode effect in an asymmetric SQUID consisting of a sinusoidal Josephson junction formed by a Bi$_2$Te$_2$Se flake and a superconducting Nb nanobridge with a linear and multivalued current-phase relation (CPR).…

Multi-terminal superconducting Josephson junctions based on the proximity effect offer the bright opportunity to tailor non trivial quantum states in nanoscale weak-links. These structures can realize exotic topologies in multidimensions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-09 E. Strambini , S. D'Ambrosio , F. Vischi , F. S. Bergeret , Yu. V. Nazarov , F. Giazotto

We study the response of high-critical current proximity Josephson junctions to a microwave excitation. Electron over-heating in such devices is known to create hysteretic dc voltage-current characteristics. Here we demonstrate that it also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Alessandro De Cecco , Kévin Le Calvez , Benjamin Sacépé , Clemens Winkelmann , Hervé Courtois

Microwave response of S-shaped Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu2O$_{8+x}$ (Bi-2212) micron-scale samples, in which the supercurrent was forced to flow perpendicular to the crystal layers, was investigated. A treatment with a focused ion beam allowed us to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-02-15 Myung-Ho Bae , R. C. Dinsmore , M. Sahu , Hu-Jong Lee , A. Bezryadin

Dark matter axions can generate peculiar effects in special types of Josephson junctions, so-called SNS junctions. One can show that the axion field equations in a Josephson environment allow for very small oscillating supercurrents, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-13 Christian Beck

A stationary Josephson effect in point contacts between triplet superconductors is analyzed theoretically for most probable models of the order parameter in UPt_{3} and Sr_{2}RuO_{4}. The consequence of misorientation of crystals in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-07-26 R. Mahmoodi , S. N. Shevchenko , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko

We study all the possible different two terminal configurations of Josephson junctions containing wires of time-reversal invariant topological superconductors (TRITOPS) and ordinary superconductors, including combinations with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Liliana Arrachea , Alberto Camjayi , Armando A. Aligia , Leonel Gruñeiro

On the basis of the Usadel equation we study a multi-terminal Josephson junction. This junction is composed by "magnetic" superconductors S$_{\text{m}}$ which have singlet pairing and are separated from the normal n~wire by spin filters so…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-07 Andreas Moor , Anatoly F. Volkov , Konstantin B. Efetov

We report an experimental and theoretical study of the phase diffusion in small Josephson junctions under microwave irradiation. A peculiar enhancement of the phase diffusion by microwaves is observed. The enhancement manifests itself by a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Koval , M. V. Fistul , A. V. Ustinov