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The phase and thermal driven transport properties of the T-shaped uncorrelated double quantum dot Josephson junction are analyzed by using Keldysh non-equilibrium Green's function equation of motion technique. In this setup, we have shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-10 Bhupendra Kumar , Sachin Verma , Ajay

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 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

Using the extraordinary sensitivity of Andreev interferometers to the superconducting phase difference associated with currents, we measure the persistent current quantum states in superconducting loops interrupted by Josephson junctions.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 V. T. Petrashov , K. G. Chua , K. M. Marshall , R. Sh. Shaikhaidarov , J. T. Nicholls

We discuss very low temperature experiments on superconducting micro-coolers made of a double Normal metal - Insulator - Superconductor junction. We investigate with a high resolution the differential conductance of the micro-cooler as well…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Sukumar Rajauria , Philippe Gandit , F. W. J. Hekking , Bernard Pannetier , Hervé Courtois

The dissipative component of electron transport through the doubly connected SNS Andreev interferometer indium (S)-aluminium (N)-indium (S) has been studied. Within helium temperature range, the conductance of the individual sections of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu. N. Chiang , O. G. Shevchenko

We perform switching current measurements of planar Josephson junctions (JJs) coupled by a common superconducting electrode, with independent control over the two superconducting phase differences. We observe an anomalous phase shift in the…

The first evidence of anomalous Josephson effect is reported in mesoscopic superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) junctions forming a crosslike Andreev Interferometer in the absence of magnetic and spin-orbit interactions normally…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-02 D. Margineda , J. S. Claydon , F. Qejvanaj , C. Checkley

We study nonequilibrium effects in current transport through voltage biased tunnel junction with long diffusive superconducting leads at low applied voltage, $eV \ll 2\Delta$, and finite temperatures. Due to a small value of the Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-01-11 E. V. Bezuglyi , A. S. Vasenko , V. S. Shumeiko , G. Wendin

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

Superconducting tunnel junctions constitute the units of superconducting quantum circuits and are massively used both for quantum sensing and quantum computation. In previous works, we predicted the existence of a nonlinear thermoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 G. Marchegiani , A. Braggio , F. Giazotto

The standard approach to non-equilibrium thermodynamics describes transport in terms of generalised forces and coupled currents, a typical example being the Fourier law that relates temperature gradient to the heat flux. Here we demonstrate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Simone Borlenghi , Stefano Iubini , Stefano Lepri , Lars Bergqvist , Anna Delin , Jonas Frannson

The thermoelectric performance of a topological Josephson nonlocal heat engine is thoroughly investigated. The nonlocal response is obtained by using a normal metal probe coupled with only one of the proximized helical edges in the middle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Gianmichele Blasi , Fabio Taddei , Liliana Arrachea , Matteo Carrega , Alessandro Braggio

We theoretically describe a thermoelectric effect that is entirely due to Andreev processes involving the formation of Cooper pairs through the coupling of electrons and holes. The Andreev thermoelectric effect can occur in ballistic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-25 Tony Savander , Shun Tamura , Christian Flindt , Yukio Tanaka , Pablo Burset

By measuring the Josephson emission of a diffusive Superconductor-Normal metal-Superconductor (SNS) junction at a finite temperature we reveal a non-trivial sensitivity of the supercurrent to microwave irradiation. We demonstrate that the…

Quantum phase transitions typically result in a broadened critical or crossover region at nonzero temperature. Josephson arrays are a model of this phenomenon, exhibiting a superconductor-insulator transition at a critical wave impedance,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 S. Mukhopadhyay , J. Senior , J. Saez-Mollejo , D. Puglia , M. Zemlicka , J. Fink , A. P. Higginbotham

Identifying materials and devices which offer efficient thermoelectric effects at low temperature is a major obstacle for the development of thermal management strategies for low-temperature electronic systems. Superconductors cannot offer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-04 F. Giazotto , J. W. A. Robinson , J. S. Moodera , F. S. Bergeret

We theoretically investigate the temperature-to-phase conversion (TPC) process occurring in dc superconducting quantum interferometers based on superconductor--normal metal--superconductor (SNS) mesoscopic Josephson junctions. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-21 P. Virtanen , A. Ronzani , F. Giazotto

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

Josephson junctions (JJs), where both time-reversal and inversion symmetry are broken, exhibit a phase shift $\phi_0$ in their current-phase relation. This allows for an anomalous supercurrent to flow in the junction even in the absence of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-11 Alberto Hijano , Stefan Ilić , F. Sebastián Bergeret