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The anomalous proximity effect in dirty superconducting junctions is one of most striking phenomena highlighting the profound nature of Majorana bound states and odd-frequency Cooper pairs in topological superconductors. Motivated by the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-04 Satoshi Ikegaya , Shun Tamura , Dirk Manske , Yukio Tanaka

We calculate the Andreev bound states and the corresponding Josephson current for an asymmetric 2-dimensional Josephson junction by solving Bogoliubov-de-Gennes equations. The junction consists of a non-centrosymmetric superconductor (NCS)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-05-13 Ludwig Klam , Anthony Epp , Wei Chen , Manfred Sigrist , Dirk Manske

Superconducting diodes are a recently-discovered quantum analogueue of classical diodes. The superconducting diode effect relies on the breaking of both time-reversal and inversion symmetry. As a result, the critical current of a…

We carry out an extensive experimental and theoretical study of the Josephson effect in S-N-S junctions made of a diffusive normal metal (N) embedded between two superconducting electrodes (S). Our experiments are performed on Nb-Cu-Nb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Dubos , H. Courtois , B. Pannetier , F. K. Wilhelm , A. D. Zaikin , G. Schon

We study the Josephson diode effect realized purely by geometry in a Kitaev-ladder Josephson junction composed of two parallel spinless $p$-wave chains coupled by an interleg hopping $t_\perp$. The junction is governed by two phases: the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-11 Cheng-Rong Xie , Hiroki Tsuchiura , Manfred Sigrist

We study a diffusive superconductor - normal metal - superconductor (SNS) junction in an external magnetic field. In the limit of a long junction, we find that the form of the dependence of the Josephson current on the field and on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-16 B. Crouzy , D. A. Ivanov

We investigate the Josephson current in a graphene superconductor/normal/superconductor junction, where superconductivity is induced by means of the proximity effect from external contacts. We take into account the possibility of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Jacob Linder , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Takehito Yokoyama , Sebastian Doniach , Asle Sudbø

A singularity at the Josephson frequency in the noise spectral density of a disordered normal metal -- superconductor junction is predicted for bias voltages below the superconducting gap. The non-stationary Aharonov-Bohm effect, recently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gordey B. Lesovik , Thierry Martin , Julien Torres

We study theoretically the Josephson effect between two time-reversal two-band superconductors, where we assume the equal-time spin-singlet $s$-wave pair potential in each conduction band. %as well as the band asymmetry and the band…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-13 Akihiro Sasaki , Satoshi Ikegaya , Tetsuro Habe , Alexander A. Golubov , Yasuhiro Asano

We have studied the critical current of a diffusive superconductor - normal metal - superconductor (SNS) Josephson junction as a function of the electron energy distribution in the normal region. This was realized in a 4 terminal device, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. J. A. Baselmans , B. J. van Wees , T. M. Klapwijk

We analyze the presence of non-reciprocal critical currents, the so-called superconducting diode effect, in chiral superconductors within a generalized Ginzburg-Landau framework. After deriving its key symmetry conditions we illustrate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-13 Bastian Zinkl , Keita Hamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

We study a phase-tunable four-terminal Josephson junction formed in an InSbAs two-dimensional electron gas proximitized by aluminum. By embedding the two pairs of junction terminals in asymmetric DC SQUIDs we can control the superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Christian G. Prosko , Wietze D. Huisman , Ivan Kulesh , Di Xiao , Candice Thomas , Michael J. Manfra , Srijit Goswami

The superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor (S/F/S) Josephson junctions (JJs) with an anomalous ground state phase shift $\varphi_0 \neq 0,\pi$ ($\varphi_0$-S/F/S JJs) enable the implementation of the zero-field Josephson diode effect…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-13 G. A. Bobkov , I. A. Shvets , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , S. V. Eremeev , E. V. Chulkov

In this work, we investigated the nonadiabatic transport properties of the one-dimensional time-dependent superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) Josephson junction biased by a current source and driven by a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-17 Rui Zhu , Mi Liu

We consider a diffusive S-N-S junction with electrons in the normal layer driven out of equilibrium by external bias. We show that, the non-equilibrium fluctuations of the electron density in the normal layer cause the fluctuations of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 B. N. Narozhny , I. L. Aleiner

We study the Josephson effects in the superconductor/two-dimensional Weyl nodal line semimetal/superconductor junctions using the Green's function method. When the Rashba spin-orbit coupling and an external magnetic field coexist in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-05 Wen-Ting Liu , Shu-Chang Zhao , Qiang Cheng , Qing-Feng Sun

We study transport properties and also local density of states in a clean superconductor-normal metal-superconductor Josephson junction with triplet f-wave superconductors based on the Eilenberger equation. Effects of thickness of normal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-05 Yousef Rahnavard , Gholamreza Rashedi , Takehito Yokoyama

Recently discovered phase of collinear magnet called, altermagnet breaks time reversal symmetry (TRS), exhibits momentum-dependent spin-splitting of band structure with zero net magnetization. In this work, we theoretically investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Lovy Sharma , Manisha Thakurathi

For certain orientations of Josephson junctions between two p_x-wave or two d-wave superconductors, the subgap Andreev bound states produce a 4pi-periodic relation between the Josephson current I and the phase difference phi: I ~…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Hyok-Jon Kwon , K. Sengupta , Victor M. Yakovenko

We study Josephson junctions between superconductors connected through the helical edge states of a two-dimensional topological insulator in the presence of a magnetic barrier. As the equilibrium Andreev bound states of the junction are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Driss M. Badiane , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer