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We study the emergence of the nonlocal Josephson effect in a system composed of three laterally coupled minimal Kitaev chains and exploit it to realize the nonlocal Josephson diode effect. We find that an imbalance between crossed Andreev…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-27 Jorge Cayao , Masatoshi Sato

We present the design, measurement and analysis of a current sensor based on a process of Josephson parametric upconversion in a superconducting microwave cavity. Terminating a coplanar waveguide with a nanobridge constriction Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Felix E. Schmidt , Daniel Bothner , Ines C. Rodrigues , Mario F. Gely , Mark D. Jenkins , Gary A. Steele

A theory is offered for a novel device, mesoscopic four-terminal SQUID. The studied system consists of a mesoscopic four-terminal junction, one pair of terminals of which is incorporated in a superconducting ring and the other one is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. H. S. Amin , A. N. Omelyanchouk , A. M. Zagoskin

We predict a new dynamic state in current-carrying superconductors with multicomponent order parameter. If the current density J exceeds a critical value J_t, an interband breakdown caused by charge imbalance of nonequilibrium…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Gurevich , V. M. Vinokur

We investigate the Josephson effect in one triple-terminal junction with embedded parallel-coupled double quantum dots. It is found that the inter-superconductor supercurrent has opportunities to oscillate in $4\pi$ period, with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Guang-Yu Yi , Xiao-Qi Wang , Zhen Gao , Hai-Na Wu , Wei-Jiang Gong

The interplay between magnetism and superconductivity can lead to unconventional proximity and Josephson effects. A related phenomenon that has recently attracted considerable attention is the superconducting diode effect, in which a…

We study the dc-current transport in a voltage biased superconductor-chaotic dot-superconductor junction with an induced proximity effect(PE) in the dot. It is found that for a Thouless energy $E_{Th}$ of the dot smaller than the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Samuelsson , G. Johansson , Å. Ingerman , V. S. Shumeiko , G. Wendin

We investigate the Josephson effect through a two-level quantum dot with an exchange coupling between two dot electrons. We compute the superconducting phase relationship and construct the phase diagram in the superconducting gap--exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-25 Minchul Lee , Thibaut Jonckheere , Thierry Martin

Superconducting proximity junctions based on topological insulators are widely believed to harbor Majorana-like bound states. The latter serves as a paradigm non-local topological quantum computation protocols. Nowadays, a search for…

We study the supercurrent in quasi-one-dimensional Josephson junctions with a weak link involving magnetism, either via magnetic impurities or via ferromagnetism. In the case of weak links longer than {\color{black}the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-24 P. A. Ioselevich , P. M. Ostrovsky , Ya. V. Fominov

We consider a Hamiltonian model for a quantum dot which is placed between two superconducting leads with a constant bias imposed between these leads. Using the non-equilibrium Keldysh technique, we focus on the subgap current, where it is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-02 Thibaut Jonckheere , Alex Zazunov , K. Bayandin , Vitaly Shumeiko , Thierry Martin

Nonreciprocity in superconductors is attracting much interest owing to its fundamental importance as well as its potential applicability to engineering. In this paper, we generalize the previous theories of the intrinsic superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-20 Akito Daido , Youichi Yanase

Characterizing superconducting microwave resonators with highly dissipative elements is a technical challenge, but a requirement for implementing and understanding the operation of hybrid quantum devices involving dissipative elements, e.g.…

It is necessary to break both time-reversal and parity symmetries to realize a Josephson, or superconducting, diode exhibiting nonreciprocal critical direct-currents (DC). In fact, these conditions are still insufficient. The dependencies…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-27 Da Wang , Qiang-Hua Wang , Congjun Wu

Josephson junctions (JJ) are essential for superconducting quantum technologies and searches of self-conjugate quasiparticles, pivotal for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Measuring the current-phase relation (CPR) in JJ based on…

The effect of the collective charge density wave (CDW) motion on the Josephson current in a superconductor/charge density wave/superconductor junction is studied theoretically. By deriving the kinetic equations for the coupled…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 M. I. Visscher , B. Rejaei

Two-dimensional arrays of ballistic Josephson junctions are important as model systems for synthetic quantum materials. Here, we investigate arrays of multiterminal junctions which exhibit a phase difference $\varphi_0$ at zero current.…

Non-reciprocal electronic transport in a material occurs if both time reversal and inversion symmetries are broken. The superconducting diode effect (SDE) is an exotic manifestation of this type of behavior where the critical current for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-19 M. S. Anwar , T. Nakamura , R. Ishiguro , S. Arif , J. W. A. Robinson , S. Yonezawa , M. Sigrist , Y. Maeno

Motivated by recent experiments, where a voltage biased Josephson junction is placed in series with a resonator, the classical dynamics of the circuit is studied in various domains of parameter space. This problem can be mapped onto the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 S. Meister , M. Mecklenburg , V. Gramich , J. T. Stockburger , J. Ankerhold , B. Kubala

We present simultaneous measurements of Josephson inductance and DC transport characteristics of ballistic Josephson junctions based upon an epitaxial Al-InAs heterostructure. The Josephson inductance at finite current bias directly reveals…