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We study the Josephson effect in graphene-based ballistic superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor (SFS) junctions. We find an oscillatory Josephson coupling $I_c R_N$ of F graphene whose amplitude is nonvanishing for a half-metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ali G. Moghaddam , Malek Zareyan

We describe the proximity effect in a short disordered metallic junction between three superconducting leads. Andreev bound states in the multi-terminal junction may cross the Fermi level. We reveal that for a quasi-continuous metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-13 C. Padurariu , T. Jonckheere , J. Rech , R. Mélin , D. Feinberg , T. Martin , Yu. V. Nazarov

Electrical properties of Josephson junctions Nb/FeSi/Nb with superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F)interfaces are presented. Due to Andreev reflection the nearly exact quadruple enhancement of the tunnel junction differential conductance compared…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Vavra , S. Gazi , I. Vavra , G. Radnoczi , V. V. Moshchalkov , J. Derer , E. Kovacova

We present a Josephson junction based on a Ge-Si core-shell nanowire with transparent superconducting Al contacts, a building block which could be of considerable interest for investigating Majorana bound states, superconducting qubits and…

This is a colloquium-style introduction to two electronic processes in a carbon monolayer (graphene), each having an analogue in relativistic quantum mechanics. Both processes couple electron-like and hole-like states, through the action of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 C. W. J. Beenakker

We investigate the Andreev tunneling and Josephson current in graphene irradiated with high-frequency linearly polarized light. The corresponding stroboscopic dynamics can be solved using Floquet mechanism which results in an effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-21 Debabrata Sinha , Satyaki Kar

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,…

Andreev-reflection spectroscopy of elemental superconductors in contact with non-magnetic normal metals reveals that the strength of normal-reflection varies only slightly. This observation imposes strong constrictions on the three possible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 K. Gloos , E. Tuuli

Since the discovery of the Andreev reflection process at normal-metal/superconductor junctions and the corresponding Andreev bound states in superconductor/normal-metal/superconductor junctions, various multiterminal Josephson junctions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-29 Panch Ram , Detlef Beckmann , Romain Danneau , Wolfgang Belzig

We present a theory for the Josephson effect in an unconventional superconductor / one-dimensional electron gas / unconventional superconductor (s/o/s) junction, where the Josephson current is carried by components injected perpendicular to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Yukio Tanaka , Takashi Hirai , Koichi Kusakabe , Satoshi Kashiwaya

We theoretically investigate the Josephson effect between two proximized Fibonacci quasicrystals. A quasiperiodic modulation of the chemical potential on a superconducting substrate induces topological gaps and edge modes with energies…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-11 Ignacio Sardinero , Jorge Cayao , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka , Pablo Burset

A tight-binding approach based on the Chebyshev-Bogoliubov-de Gennes method is used to describe disordered single-layer graphene Josephson junctions. Scattering by vacancies, ripples or charged impurities is included. We compute the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-23 W. A. Munoz , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters

The stationary Josephson effect in a system of ballistic graphene is studied in the framework of quasiclassical Green's function theory. Reflecting the ultimate two-dimensionality of graphene, a Josephson junction involving a graphene sheet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-24 Yositake Takane , Ken-Ichiro Imura

Wide mesoscopic superconducting - normal-metal - superconducting (S-N-S) junctions exhibit Andreev bound states which carry substantial supercurrents, even at temperatures for which the equilibrium Josephson effect is exponentially small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Nathan Argaman

The Josephson diode effect (JDE) is a novel phenomenon in which a superconducting junction exhibits asymmetric Josephson currents with respect to the superconducting phase difference. In this study, we theoretically investigate how the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-29 Shin-ichi Hikino

In the context of hybrid superconductor-semiconductor systems, Josephson junctions based on two-dimensional materials, such as graphene, offer promising opportunities because of their scalability and gate-tunable electronic properties. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 V. Varrica , G. Falci , E. Paladino , F. M. D. Pellegrino

By combining the Dirac equation of relativistic quantum mechanics with the Bogoliubov-De Gennes equation of superconductivity we investigate the electron-hole conversion at a normal-metal--superconductor interface in graphene. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. W. J. Beenakker

There is growing interest in using multi-terminal Josephson junctions (MTJJs) as a platform to artificially emulate topological phases and to investigate complex superconducting mechanisms such as quartet and multiplet Cooper pairings.…

We fabricate superconductor-graphene-superconductor Josephson junctions with superconducting regions made of lead (Pb). The critical current through grapehene may be modulated by external magnetic field; the resulting Fraunhofer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 I. V. Borzenets , U. C. Coskun , H. Mebrahtu , G. Finkelstein

Topological Josephson junctions enable nonreciprocal transport involving Majorana fermions (MFs). Here we examine a topological Josephson junction with mixed $s$+$p$-wave pairing, where topological phase transition can be driven by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-23 Shu-Tong Guan , Jin An