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We investigate proximity induced superconductivity in micrometer-long bismuth nanowires con- nected to superconducting electrodes with a high critical field. At low temperature we measure a supercurrent that persists in magnetic fields as…

We investigate the electronic transport behavior of Fano-Anderson (FA) systems, consisting of a one-dimensional finite backbone chain and an attached side-group of varying length. The tight-binding model within the non-equilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Koushik R. Das , Sudipta Dutta

Macroscopic quantum tunneling (MQT) for a single fluxon moving along a long Josephson junction is studied theoretically. To introduce a fluxon-pinning force, we consider inhomogeneities made by modifying thickness of an insulating layer…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Takeo Kato , Masatoshi Imada

The integration of semiconductor Josephson junctions (JJs) in superconducting quantum circuits provides a versatile platform for hybrid qubits and offers a powerful way to probe exotic quasiparticle excitations. Recent proposals for using…

We consider a general problem of a Josephson contact between two multiband superconductors with coexisting superconducting and magnetic phases. As a particular example, we use the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity to study the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-01 Ammar A. Kirmani , Maxim Dzero , Alex Levchenko

Magnetic order typically disrupts superconductivity, reducing the supercurrent. Here, we show that chiral antiferromagnetism, with non-relativistic spin-split bands and distinctive valley-locked spin texture, can instead significantly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-26 Jin-Xing Hou , Hai-Peng Sun , Björn Trauzettel , Song-Bo Zhang

Measurement of multiple Andreev reflection (MAR) in a Josephson junction made from an InAs heterostructure with epitaxial aluminum is used to quantify the highly transparent semiconductor-superconductor interface, indicating near-unity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-31 M. Kjaergaard , H. J. Suominen , M. P. Nowak , A. R. Akhmerov , J. Shabani , C. J. Palmstrøm , F. Nichele , C. M. Marcus

The prospect of combining the dissipationless nature of superconducting currents with the spin-polarization of magnetic materials is interesting with respect to exploring superconducting analogues of topics in spintronics. In order to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Iryna Kulagina , Jacob Linder

A nondissipative supercurrent state of a Josephson junction is metastable with respect to the formation of a finite-resistance state. This transition is driven by fluctuations, thermal at high temperatures and quantum at low temperatures.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-06 D. S. Antonenko , M. A. Skvortsov

Topological materials with boundary (surface/edge/hinge) states have attracted tremendous research interest. Besides, unconventional (obstructed atomic) materials have recently drawn lots of attention owing to their obstructed boundary…

In close analogy to quantum electrodynamics, we derive a quantum field theory of Josephson plasma waves (JPWs) in layered superconductors (LSCs), which describes two types of interacting JPW bosonic quanta: one massive and the other…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergey Savel'ev , A. L. Rakhmanov , Franco Nori

The combination of superconductivity and magnetic textures represents a promising approach to explore unconventional superconducting phenomena, including new correlated and topological phases. Van der Waals (vdW) materials have emerged in…

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

The Josephson current in a diffusive superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor junction with precessing magnetization is calculated within the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity. When the junction is phase-biased, a stationary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-31 M. Houzet

We analyze the magnetic and transport properties of a double quantum dot coupled to superconducting leads. In addition to the possible phase transition to a $\pi$ state, already present in the single dot case, this system exhibits a richer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. S. Bergeret , A. Levy Yeyati , A. Martin-Rodero

The Josephson effect is one of the most studied macroscopic quantum phenomena in condensed matter physics and has been an essential part of the quantum technologies development over the last decades. It is already used in many applications…

We realize a hybrid superconductor-semiconductor transmon device in which the Josephson effect is controlled by a gate-defined quantum dot in an InAs/Al nanowire. Microwave spectroscopy of the transmon's transition spectrum allows us to…

Topological superconductors can support localized Majorana states at their boundaries. These quasi-particle excitations have non-Abelian statistics that can be used to encode and manipulate quantum information in a topologically protected…

The breaking of time-reversal symmetry in a triplet superconductor Josephson junction is shown to cause a magnetic instability of the tunneling barrier. Using a Ginzburg-Landau analysis of the free energy, we predict that this novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-13 P. M. R. Brydon , Christian Iniotakis , Dirk Manske , M. Sigrist

We study diffusive magnetic Josephson junctions with four superconducting terminals in the weak proximity limit where the leads are arranged in cross form. Employing the linearized Keldysh-Usadel technique, the anomalous Green's function…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-04-23 Mohammad Alidoust , Granville Sewell , Jacob Linder