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Current flow in electronic devices can be asymmetric with bias direction, a phenomenon underlying the utility of diodes and known as non-reciprocal charge transport. The promise of dissipationless electronics has recently stimulated the…

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

Despite metals are believed to be insensitive to field-effect and conventional Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theories predict the electric field to be ineffective on conventional superconductors, a number of gating experiments showed the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Federico Paolucci , Giorgio De Simoni , Paolo Solinas , Elia Strambini , Claudio Puglia , Nadia Ligato , Francesco Giazotto

Thermoelectric devices that utilize the Seebeck effect convert heat flow into electrical energy and are highly desirable for the development of portable, solid state, passively-powered electronic systems. The conversion efficiencies of such…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-06 Ruixiang Fei , Alireza Faghaninia , Ryan Soklaski , Jia-An Yan , Cynthia Lo , Li Yang

The point contact tunneling technique is used to examine quasiparticle and Josephson currents in overdoped Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8+\delta}$ (Bi-2212) single crystals with bulk T$_{c}$ values near 62 K. High quality…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Lutfi Ozyuzer , John F. Zasadzinski , Chris Kendziora , Kenneth E. Gray

We discuss heat transport through a Josephson tunnel junction under various bias conditions. We first derive the formula for the cooling power of the junction valid for arbitrary time dependence of the Josephson phase. Combining it with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-04 Dmitry Golubev , Timothé Faivre , Jukka P. Pekola

We report an experimental study of induced superconductivity in Ge hut nanowire Josephson junctions. The Ge hut nanowires are grown on prepatterned SiGe ridges via molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and Josephson junction devices are fabricated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Han Gao , Jian-Huan Wang , Ji-Yin Wang , Jian-Jun Zhang , Hongqi Xu

Ferroelectric tunnel junctions, in which ferroelectric polarization and quantum tunneling are closely coupled to induce the tunneling electroresistance (TER) effect, have attracted considerable interest due to their potential in…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-11 Xin-Wei Shen , Yue-Wen Fang , Bo-Bo Tian , Chun-Gang Duan

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

Tunneling spectroscopy measurements are reported on optimally-doped and overdoped Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8+\delta}$ single crystals. A novel point contact method is used to obtain superconductor-insulator-normal metal (SIN) and SIS…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Ozyuzer , C. Kurter , J. F. Zasadzinski , K. E. Gray , D. G. Hinks , N. Miyakawa

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene Josephson junctions (MATBG-JJ) with a gate-tunable valley-polarized weak link exhibit an intrinsic Josephson diode effect originating from broken symmetries associated with valley polarization and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Hadi Mohammed Soufy , Colin Benjamin

We study a multi-terminal Josephson junction consisting of a central spin-orbit-coupled (SOC) region with an in-plane Zeeman field connected to four superconducting terminals. This setup allows for the simultaneous measurement of both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-29 Bijay Kumar Sahoo , Abhiram Soori

An intrinsic Josephson junction has been successfully fabricated without any micro-fabrication technique. Two Bi2212 whiskers were crossed with one another and joined by post-annealing. The inter-whisker electrical transport properties were…

Current-voltage curves of small area hysteretic intrinsic Josephson junctions, for which the Josephson energy $E_J=\hbar J_c/2e$ is of order of thermal energy $kT$, are investigated. A non-monotonic temperature dependence of the switching…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-13 A. Franz , Y. Koval , D. Vasyukov , P. Muller , H. Schneidewind , D. A. Ryndyk , J. Keller , C. Helm

In a Josephson junction involving multi-band superconductors, competition between inter-band and inter-junction Josephson coupling gives rise to frustration and spatial disjunction of superfluid densities among superconducting condensates.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-23 Nileema Sharma , Matthew Toole , James McKenzie , Sheng Ran , Xiaolong Liu

In a hybrid Superconductor - Insulator - Normal metal tunnel junction biased just below the gap, the extraction of hot electrons out of the normal metal results in electronic cooling effect. The quasiparticles injected in the superconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Bernard Pannetier , Herve' Courtois , Sukumar Rajauria

The superconducting diode effect (SDE)-the unidirectional, dissipationless flow of supercurrent-is a critical element for future superconducting electronics. Achieving high efficiency under zero magnetic field is a key requirement. The…

We theoretically investigate the supercurrent flow in a Josephson junction consisting of two spin-split superconductors combined by a normal metal weak link. The normal metal may be driven out of equilibrium, thus modifying the electron and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-06 Chi Sun , Jacob Linder

Josephson effect in junctions of quasi one-dimensional triangular lattice superconductors is discussed, where the theoretical model corresponds to organic superconductors (TMTSF)_2PF_6. We assume the quarter-filling electron band and p, d…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Asano , Y. Tanaka , Y. Tanuma , K. Kuroki , H. Tsuchiura

We have observed back-bending structures at high bias current in the current-voltage curves of intrinsic Josephson junctions. These structures may be caused by nonequilibrium quasiparticle injection and/or Joule heating. The energy gap…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 L. X. You , P. H. Wu , J. Chen , W. W. Xu , K. Kajiki , S. Watauchi , I. Tanaka