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In the quasi-twodimensional (Q2D) electron gas of an InAs channel between an AlSb substrate and superconducting Niobium layers the proximity effect induces a pair potential so that a Q2D mesoscopic superconducting-normal-superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Arne Jacobs , Reiner Kümmel , Hartmut Plehn

We investigate ac Josephson effect in the resonant tunneling through mesoscopic superconducting junctions. In the presence of microwave irradiation, we show that the trajectory of multiple Andreev reflections can be closed by emitting or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-03 Yu Zhu , Qing-feng Sun , Wei Li , Zhong-shui Ma , Tsung-han Lin

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 sin(phi/2).…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 Hyok-Jon Kwon , K. Sengupta , Victor M. Yakovenko

Hybrid Josephson junctions realized on a two-dimensional electron gas are considered promising candidates for developing topological elements that are easily controllable and scalable. Here, we theoretically study the possibility of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 D. Kuiri , M. P. Nowak

Tunneling spectroscopy at surfaces of unconventional superconductors has proven an invaluable tool for obtaining information about the pairing symmetry. It is known that mid gap Andreev bound states manifest itself as a zero bias…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-09 Matthias Eschrig , Christian Iniotakis , Yukio Tanaka

We demonstrate a flip-chip-based approach to microwave measurements of Andreev bound states in a gate-tunable planar Josephson junction using inductively-coupled superconducting low-loss resonators. By means of electrostatic gating, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 M. Hinderling , D. Sabonis , S. Paredes , D. Z. Haxell , M. Coraiola , S. C. ten Kate , E. Cheah , F. Krizek , R. Schott , W. Wegscheider , F. Nichele

We investigate the electronic transport properties of a superconductor-quantum dot-superconductor Josephson junction coupled to a ferromagnetic metal reservoir in the presence of an external magnetic field. The device is described by an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Roberto Capecelatro , Marco Marciani , Gabriele Campagnano , Roberta Citro , Procolo Lucignano

STM experiments in the tunneling and Andreev regimes on graphene-based moire superconductors (SC) show two distinct energy scales whose origin is mysterious. We express the conductance of a normal-SC interface in terms of Green's functions,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-12 Sayak Biswas , Saurav Suman , Mohit Randeria , Rajdeep Sensarma

We present tunnel spectroscopy experiments on the proximity effect in lateral superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) Josephson junctions. Our weak link is embedded into a superconducting (S) ring allowing phase biasing of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Meschke , J. T. Peltonen , J. P. Pekola , F. Giazotto

We study a novel type of solitonic Andreev bound state (ABS) in a Corbino-geometry Josephson junction created on a 2DEG. The Josephson junction is subjected to a weak magnetic flux that induces a fluxoid mismatch between the inner disk and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada

We analyze the Andreev spectrum in a four-terminal Josephson junction between one-dimensional topological superconductors in class D. We find that a topologically protected crossing in the space of three superconducting phase differences…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer

We use a hybrid superconductor-semiconductor transmon device to perform spectroscopy of a quantum dot Josephson junction tuned to be in a spin-1/2 ground state with an unpaired quasiparticle. Due to spin-orbit coupling, we resolve two…

Using scanning tunneling microscopy, we reproducibly obtained electrical conductance spectra of superconductor- superconductor atomic point contacts formed on various atomic sites of the substrate. From the analysis of the subharmonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Howon Kim , Yukio Hasegawa

We report on the measurement of multiple Andreev resonances at atomic size point contacts between two superconducting nanostructures of Pb under magnetic fields higher than the bulk critical field, where superconductivity is restricted to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Suderow , E. Bascones , W. Belzig , F. Guinea , S. Vieira

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

Multiple systems hosting Andreev molecular states have been proposed and studied, consisting of closely spaced Josephson junctions modeled as ballistic channels. We show that replacing the ballistic channels in the weak link of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Mátyás Kocsis , Zoltán Scherübl , Gergő Fülöp , Péter Makk , Szabolcs Csonka

Quasiperiodicity has recently been proposed to enhance superconductivity and its proximity effect. At the same time, there has been significant experimental progress in the fabrication of quasiperiodic structures, also in reduced…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-27 Anna Sandberg , Oladunjoye A. Awoga , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Patric Holmvall

We report on Josephson and quasiparticle tunneling in YBa2Cu3O7-x(YBCO)/Au/Nb ramp junctions of several geometries. Macroscopically, tunneling occurs in the ab-plane of YBCO either in the (100) and (010) direction, or in the (110)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Chesca , D. Doenitz , T. Dahm , R. P. Huebener , D. Koelle , R. Kleiner , Ariando , H. J. H. Smilde , H. Hilgenkamp

We propose a new method to measure the coherence time of superconducting phase qubits based on the analysis of the magnetic-field dependent dc nonlinear Andreev current across a high-resistance tunnel contact between the qubit and a dirty…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Mikhail V. Feigel'man , Lev B. Ioffe , Vadim B. Geshkenbein , Gianni Blatter

We extend the circuit theory of superconductivity to cover transport and proximity effect in mesoscopic systems that contain unconventional superconductor junctions. The approach fully accounts for zero-energy Andreev bound states forming…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Tanaka , Yu. V. Nazarov , S. Kashiwaya