English
Related papers

Related papers: Second order Josephson effect in excitonic insulat…

200 papers

We present a theory of the Josephson effect in a twofold-tilted Josephson junction made by d-wave anisotropic layered superconductors. We find the appearance of an intrinsic electrical resistance that arises from the misalignment of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-13 Ciro Nappi , Sergio De Nicola , Maria Adamo , Ettore Sarnelli

We analyze the impact of trap states in the oxide layer of a superconducting tunnel junctions, on the fluctuation of the Josephson critical current, thus on coherence in superconducting qubits. Two mechanisms are usually considered: the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-02 Mohammad H. Ansari , Frank K. Wilhelm

We investigate the current-phase relations of Al/InAs-quantum well planar Josephson junctions fabricated using nanowire shadowing technique. Based on several experiments, we conclude that the junctions exhibit an unusually large…

The ultimate spatial limit to establish a Josephson coupling between two superconducting electrodes is an atomic-scale junction. The Josephson effect in such ultrasmall junctions has been used to unveil new switching dynamics, study…

A critical value in the product of the anisotropy parameter and the magnetic field is observed in interlayer Josephson-vortex systems by extensive Monte Carlo simulations. Below/above this critical value the thermodynamic phase transition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Xiao Hu , Masashi Tachiki

Excitonic insulators conduct neither electrons nor holes but bound electron-hole pairs, excitons. Unfortunately, it is not possible to inject and detect the electron and hole currents independently within a single semiconducting layer.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-30 Maxim Trushin

We study the diode effect of the supercurrent in the Josephson junctions with the loop current states as the tunneling barrier. The loop current states are realized by the Haldane model which preserves the inversion symmetry and thus…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-16 Qi-Kai Shen , Yi Zhang

We investigate the Josephson effect between two coupled superconductors, coupled by the tunneling of pairs of electrons, in the regime that their energy level spacing is comparable to the bulk superconducting gap, but neglecting any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dominique Gobert , Ulrich Schollwock , Jan von Delft

In the presence of electron-phonon coupling, an excitonic insulator harbors two degenerate ground states described by an Ising-type order parameter. Starting from a microscopic Hamiltonian, we derive the equations of motion for the Ising…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-25 H. Ning , O. Mehio , M. Buchhold , T. Kurumaji , G. Refael , J. G. Checkelsky , D. Hsieh

A new picture of the Josephson effect is devised. The radio-frequency (RF) signal, observed in a Josephson junction, is shown to stem from bound electrons, tunneling periodically through the insulating film. This holds also for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-01 Jacob Szeftel , Nicolas Sandeau , Michel Abou Ghantous

We study the Josephson junction mediated by the quantum spin Hall edge states and show that electron-electron interactions lead to a dissipationless fractional Josephson effect in the presence of time-reversal symmetry. Surprisingly, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-07-17 Fan Zhang , C. L. Kane

A model of a superconducting tunnel junction coupled to a mechanical oscillator is studied at zero temperature in the case of linear coupling between the oscillator and tunneling electrons. It is found that the Josephson current flowing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Xin Zhu , Z. Nussinov , A. V. Balatsky

Bilayer electron-hole systems, where the electrons and holes are created via doping and confined to separate layers, undergo excitonic condensation when the distance between the layers is smaller than typical distance between particles…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander V. Balatsky , Yogesh N. Joglekar , Peter B. Littlewood

We study the Josephson-like tunneling in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates coupled with microwave field in respond to various attractive and repulsive atomic interaction under the various aspect ratio of trapping potential and the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Bo Xiong , X. X. Liu

Interlayer excitons, comprising an electron in one material bound by Coulomb attraction to a hole in an adjacent material, are composite bosons that can assume a variety of many-body phases. The phase diagram of the bosonic system is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Brian Skinner

We calculate the dc Josephson current for two superconductor-ferromagnet (S/F) bilayers separated by a thin insulating film. It is demonstrated that the critical Josephson current $I_{c}$ in the junction strongly depends on the relative…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 F. S. Bergeret , A. F. Volkov , K. B. Efetov

Interaction induced topological states remain one of the fascinating phases in condensed matter physics. The exciton condensate has recently sparked renewed interest due to the discovery of new candidate materials and its driving force to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Zheng-Rong Liu , Lun-Hui Hu , Chui-Zhen Chen , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

We show that the Josephson effect between triplet superconductors is sensitive to the relative orientation of the d-vectors across the junction. In addition, we point out that the temperature and angular dependence of the Josephson effect…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 C. D. Vaccarella , R. D. Duncan , C. A. R. Sá de Melo

Technological advances allow for tunable lateral confinement of cold dipolar excitons in coupled quantum wells. We consider theoretically the Josephson effect between exciton condensates in two traps separated by a weak link. The flow of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-28 Massimo Rontani , L. J. Sham

Due to strong interlayer correlations, the bilayer quantum Hall system is a single coherent system as a whole rather than a weakly-coupled set of two independent systems, which makes conventional tunnelling theories inapplicable. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Park , S. Das Sarma