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Hybrid superconductor/semiconductor devices constitute a powerful platform where intriguing topological properties can be investigated. Here we present fabrication methods and analysis of Josephson junctions formed by a high-mobility InAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 Stefano Guiducci , Matteo Carrega , Giorgio Biasiol , Lucia Sorba , Fabio Beltram , Stefan Heun

Mesoscopic multi-terminal Josephson junctions are novel devices that provide weak coupling between several bulk superconductors through a common normal layer. Because of the nonlocal coupling of the superconducting banks, a current flow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. H. S. Amin , A. N. Omelyanchouk , A. Blais , A. Maassen van den Brink , G. Rose , T. Duty , A. M. Zagoskin

Considering s-wave pairing in an electron-hole double layer of two chiral metals, we study the Josephson effect generated by a domain wall. The latter, which is caused by a jump of the order parameter phase, creates two independent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-22 Klaus Ziegler

Novel physical phenomena arising at the interface of complex oxide heterostructures offer exciting opportunities for the development of future electronic devices. Using the prototypical LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ interface as a model system, we…

Superconductor-semiconductor hybrid materials have been extensively used for experiments on electrically tunable quantum devices. Notably, Josephson junctions utilizing nanowire weak links have enabled a number of new gate-tunable qubits,…

Josephson diodes (JDs) offer a promising route towards realizing dissipation-less rectification at low temperatures. To be practically viable, a JD must operate at zero magnetic fields, exhibit high operating frequencies and efficiency, and…

We study nonreciprocal signatures of Josephson current (JC) in a quantum dot (QD)-based Josephson junction (JJ) that comprises of two periodically driven Kitaev chains (KCs) coupled with an intervening QD. The simultaneous breaking of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Koustav Roy , Gourab Paul , Debika Debnath , Kuntal Bhattacharyya , Saurabh Basu

Recently Baselmans et al. [Nature, 397, 43 (1999)] showed that the direction of the supercurrent in a superconductor/normal/superconductor Josephson junction can be reversed by applying, perpendicularly to the supercurrent, a sufficiently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jian Huang , F. Pierre , Tero T. Heikkila , Frank K. Wilhelm , Norman O. Birge

At interfaces connecting two superconductors (SCs) separated by a metallic layer, an electric current is induced when there is a disparity in the phases of the two superconductors. We elucidate this phenomenon based on the weights of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-24 Abhiram Soori

The superconducting version of a diode effect has been the subject of extensive research in the past few years. So far, the focus has almost exclusively been on charge transport, but a natural question is whether it is possible to obtain…

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

We study the dc Josephson effect and the density of states in a multiterminal structure of cross-type geometry which consists of four superconducting electrodes connected by one-dimensional normal or ferromagnetic wires. We find that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-01-16 Sebastian Mai , Ervand Kandelaki , Anatoly Volkov , Konstantin Efetov

We investigate the Josephson transport properties in a Josephson junction consisting of a conventional $s$-wave superconductor coupled to a multi-orbital noncentrosymmetric superconductor marked by an orbitally driven inversion asymmetry…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-21 Yuri Fukaya , Yada Keiji , Yukio Tanaka , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco

Josephson tunnel junctions are essential elements of superconducting quantum circuits. The operability of these circuits presumes a $2\pi$-periodic sinusoidal potential of a tunnel junction, but higher-order corrections to this Josephson…

Recently, gate-defined Josephson junctions based on magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) have been fabricated. In such a junction, local electrostatic gating can create two superconducting regions connected by an interaction-driven…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-16 Zhong-Chang-Fei Li , Yu-Xuan Deng , Zi-Ting Sun , Jin-Xin Hu , K. T. Law

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

Superconductor-based light-emitting diode (superconductor-based LED) in strong light-confinement regime are characterized as a superconductor-based three-terminal device, and its transport properties are quantitatively investigated. In the…

We theoretically propose a mechanism to realize the superconducting diode effect (SDE): The current can generate a magnetic field, affecting the magnetic moment of magnetic impurity. When the connection region of the Josephson junction is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-05 Yu-Fei Sun , Yue Mao , Qing-Feng Sun

Superconductivity is a result of quantum coherence at macroscopic scales. Two superconductors separated by a metallic or insulating weak link exhibit the AC Josephson effect - the conversion of a DC voltage bias into an AC supercurrent.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-31 Thomas McDermott , Hai-Yao Deng , Andreas Isacsson , Eros Mariani

We investigate Josephson junctions on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator in planar, step, and edge geometries. The elliptical nature of the Dirac cone representing the side surface states of the topological insulator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-11 Jennifer Nussbaum , Thomas L. Schmidt , Christoph Bruder , Rakesh P. Tiwari

We theoretically propose a universal superconducting diode device based on double magnetic impurities which are coupled to the connection region of the Josephson junction. The positive and negative currents flowing across the junction can…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-05 Yu-Fei Sun , Yue Mao , Qing-Feng Sun