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A semiconducting nanowire proximitized by an $s$-wave superconductor can be tuned into a topological state by an applied magnetic field. This quantum phase transition is marked by the emergence of Majorana zero modes at the ends of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Chaitanya Murthy , Vladislav D. Kurilovich , Pavel D. Kurilovich , Bernard van Heck , Leonid I. Glazman , Chetan Nayak

Spectral density of current fluctuations in a short ballistic superconducting quantum point contact is calculated for arbitrary bias voltages $V$. Contrary to a common opinion that the supercurrent flow in Josephson junctions is coherent…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Averin , H. Imam

Topological features of low dimensional superconductors have caused a lot of excitement recently because of their broad range of applications in quantum information and their potential to reveal novel phases of quantum matter. A potential…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 Paul Matthews , Pedro Ribeiro , Antonio M. García-García

We consider a Josephson contact mediated by 1D chiral modes on a surface of a 3D topological insulator with superimposed superconducting and magnetic layers. The system represents an interferometer in which 1D chiral Majorana modes on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-06 Dmitriy S. Shapiro , Alexander D. Mirlin , Alexander Shnirman

We study the synchronization in a one dimensional array of point Josephson junctions coupled to a common capacitor, which establishes a long-range interaction between junctions and synchronizes them. The stability diagram of synchronization…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-19 Shi-Zeng Lin , Xiao Hu , Lev Bulaevskii

An array of resistively and capacitively shunted Josephson junctions with nonsinusoidal current-phase relation is considered for modelling the transition in high-T$_c$ superconductors. The emergence of higher harmonics, besides the simple…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-01-04 A. Carbone , M. Gilli , P. Mazzetti , L. Ponta

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

Josephson junction spectroscopy is a powerful local microwave spectroscopy technique that has promising potential as a diagnostic tool to probe the microscopic origins of noise in superconducting qubits. We present advancements toward…

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,…

Broadband detection of small electronic signals from cryogenic devices, with the option of simple implementation for multiplexing, is often a highly desired, although non-trivial task. We investigate and demonstrate a small-signal…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 Miha Furlan

We report the observation of a current-phase relation dominated by the second Josephson harmonic in superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junctions. The exotic current-phase relation is realized in the vicinity of a…

We present measurements of 1/f frequency noise in both linear and Josephson-junction-embedded superconducting aluminum resonators in the low power, low temperature regime - typical operating conditions for superconducting qubits. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-03 K. W. Murch , S. J. Weber , E. M. Levenson-Falk , R. Vijay , I. Siddiqi

We consider a two-dimensional fully frustrated Josephson-junction array, which is driven uniformly by oscillating currents. As the temperature is lowered, there emerges a dynamic phase transition to an ordered state with nonzero dynamic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Gun Sang Jeon , Jong Soo Lim , Hyun Jin Kim , M. Y. Choi

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 developed a weak-linked Josephson junction time-domain simulation tool based on the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory to account for the electrodynamics of Cooper pairs and quasiparticles in the presence of thermal noise. The model,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-16 Lucas Iwanikow , Pascal Febvre

We propose a microscopic model of critical current noise in Josephson-junctions based on individual trapping-centers in the tunnel barrier hybridized with electrons in the superconducting leads. We calculate the noise exactly in the limit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-19 Rogerio de Sousa , K. Birgitta Whaley , Theresa Hecht , Jan von Delft , Frank K. Wilhelm

We study theoretically the electrical current and low-frequency noise for a linear Josephson junction structure on a topological insulator, in which the superconductor forms a closed ring and currents are injected from normal regions inside…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-10 Benjamin J. Wieder , Fan Zhang , C. L. Kane

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

Shot noise is studied in a single normal metal-superconductor (N-S) junction at finite frequency, and for branched N-S junctions at zero frequency. The noise spectral density displays a singularity at the Josephson frequency ($\omega =…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Julien Torres , Thierry Martin , Gordey B. Lesovik

We investigate critical current noise in short ballistic graphene Josephson junctions in the open-circuit gate-voltage limit within the McWorther model. We find flicker noise in a wide frequency range and discuss the temperature dependence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Francesco M. D. Pellegrino , Giuseppe Falci , Elisabetta Paladino