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The realization and manipulation of Majorana zero modes is a key step in achieving topological quantum computation. In this paper, we demonstrate the existence of Majorana corner states in a superconductor-insulators-superconductor vertical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-17 Cheng-Ming Miao , Yu-Hao Wan , Ying-Tao Zhang , Qing-Feng Sun

We show the appearance of an unconventional Majorana zero mode whose wave function splits into multiple parts located at different ends of different topological superconductors, hereinafter referred to as a multi-locational Majorana zero…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-16 Yutaro Nagae , Andreas P. Schnyder , Yukio Tanaka , Yasuhiro Asano , Satoshi Ikegaya

We show how Floquet Majorana fermions may be experimentally realized by periodic driving of a solid-state platform. The system comprises a planar Josephson junction made of a proximitized heterostructure containing a 2D electron gas (2DEG)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Dillon T. Liu , Javad Shabani , Aditi Mitra

The Josephson effect describes supercurrent flowing through a junction connecting two superconducting leads by a thin barrier [1]. This current is driven by a superconducting phase difference $\phi$ between the leads. In the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-28 D. B. Szombati , S. Nadj-Perge , D. Car , S. R. Plissard , E. P. A. M. Bakkers , L. P. Kouwenhoven

Realizing Majorana modes in topological superconductors, i.e., the condensed-matter counterpart of Majorana fermions in particle physics, may lead to a major advance in the field of topologically-protected quantum computation. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Pasquale Marra , Daisuke Inotani , Muneto Nitta

We discuss the Josephson effect and the appearance of dissipationless edge currents in a holographic Josephson junction configuration involving a chiral, time-reversal breaking, superconductor in 2+1 dimensions. Such a superconductor is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Moshe Rozali , Alexandre Vincart-Emard

We study signatures of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) bound to Josephson vortices in superconductor-three-dimensional topological insulator-superconductor (S-TI-S) Josephson junctions placed in a perpendicular magnetic field. First, using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Katharina Laubscher , Jay D. Sau

We experimentally investigate the dynamics of exciton polariton Josephson junctions when the coupling between condensates is periodically modulated through self-induced mechanical oscillations. The condensates energy detuning, the analog of…

We predict anomalous atomic-scale 0-pi transitions in a Josephson junction with a ferromagnetic-insulator (FI) barrier. The ground state of such junction alternates between 0- and pi-states when thickness of FI is increasing by a single…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-13 Shiro Kawabata , Yasuhiro Asano , Yukio Tanaka , Alexander A. Golubov , Satoshi Kashiwaya

We propose a scheme to distinguish zero-energy peaks due to Majorana from those due to other effects at finite temperature by simply replacing the normal metallic lead with a resistive lead (large R k\Omega) in the tunneling spectroscopy.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-19 Dong E. Liu

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,…

Detailed numerical simulations of intrinsic Josephson junctions of high temperature superconductors under external electromagnetic radiation are performed taking into account a charge imbalance effect. We demonstrate that the charge…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-21 Yu. M. Shukrinov , M. Nashaat , K. V. Kulikov , R. Dawood , H. El Samman , Th. M. El Sherbini

We discover that the multiple degrees of freedom associated with magnetic skyrmions: size, position, and chirality, can all be used to control the Josephson effect and 0-pi transitions occurring in superconductor/magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-08-26 Takehito Yokoyama , Jacob Linder

We consider the one-dimensional (1D) topological superconductor that may form in a planar superconductor-metal-superconductor Josephson junction in which the metal is is subjected to spin orbit coupling and to an in-plane magnetic field.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-03-27 Ady Stern , Erez Berg

We present experimental studies of static and dynamic properties of 0, pi and 0-pi superconductor-insulator-ferromagnet-superconductor (SIFS) Josephson junctions of small and intermediate length. In the underdamped limit these junctions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-06-16 J. Pfeiffer , M. Kemmler , D. Koelle , R. Kleiner , E. Goldobin , M. Weides , A. K. Feofanov , J. Lisenfeld , A. V. Ustinov

We analyze the current in a superconducting point contact of arbitrary transmission in the presence of a microwave radiation. The interplay between the ac Josephson current and the microwave signal gives rise to Shapiro steps at voltages V…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 J. C. Cuevas , J. Heurich , A. Martin-Rodero , A. Levy Yeyati , G. Schoen

In this minireview, we outline the recent experimental and theoretical progress in the creation, characterization and manipulation of Majorana bound states (MBSs) in semiconductor-superconductor (SC) hybrid structures. After an introductory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-10 Alexander Schuray , Daniel Frombach , Sunghun Park , Patrik Recher

Two superconductors coupled by a weak link support an equilibrium Josephson electrical current which depends on the phase difference $\varphi$ between the superconducting condensates [1]. Yet, when a temperature gradient is imposed across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 Antonio Fornieri , Giuliano Timossi , Pauli Virtanen , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto

We theoretically study the transport signatures of unpaired Floquet Majorana bound states in the Josephson current of weakly linked, periodically driven topological superconductors. We obtain the occupation of the Floquet Majorana modes in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Rekha Kumari , Babak Seradjeh , Arijit Kundu

We study all possible Majorana modes in two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled ferromagnetic superconductor-normal state-superconductor (SNS) Josephson junctions and propose experiments to detect them. With the S region in a non-trivial…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Jacob Linder