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Driven atomic Josephson junctions allow one to monitor phase-coherent dynamics with unprecedented control and flexibility of the system's physical conditions. While cold-atom manifestations of the Josephson effect have been extensively…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-28 Kevin T. Geier , Giampiero Marchegiani , Vijay Pal Singh , Juan Polo , Luigi Amico

The voltage oscillations which occur in an ideally current-biased Josephson junction, were proposed to make a current standard for metrology. We demonstrate similar oscillations in a more complex Josephson circuit derived from the Cooper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-05 F. Nguyen , N. Boulant , G. Ithier , P. Bertet , H. Pothier , D. Vion , D. Esteve

We have designed an experiment and performed extensive simulations and preliminary measurements to identify a set of realistic circuit parameters that should allow the observation of constant-current steps at I=2ef in short arrays of small…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-12-30 Felix Maibaum , Sergey V. Lotkhov , A. B. Zorin

We determine, using a self consistent method, the charge and spin currents in ballistic Josephson junctions consisting of ferromagnetic ($F$) layers sandwiched between superconducting ($S$) electrodes ($SFS$-type junctions). When there are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-24 Klaus Halterman , Oriol T. Valls , Chien-Te Wu

Bloch oscillations in nanoscale Josephson junctions with a Coulomb charging energy comparable to the Josephson coupling energy are explored within the context of a model previously considered by Geigenm\"uller and Sch\"on that includes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-14 Heli Vora , R. L. Kautz , S. W. Nam , J. Aumentado

We present a Josephson junction based on a Ge-Si core-shell nanowire with transparent superconducting Al contacts, a building block which could be of considerable interest for investigating Majorana bound states, superconducting qubits and…

The dynamics of magnetization and current-voltage characteristics of the superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor $\varphi_0$ Josephson junction in the presence of external electromagnetic radiation have been studied. Effects of radiation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-22 M. Nashaat , E. Kovalenko , Yu. M. Shukrinov

Josephson junctions enable dissipation-less electrical current through metals and insulators below a critical current. Despite being central to quantum technology based on superconducting quantum bits and fundamental research into…

We develop a fully covariant, analytic framework for Josephson phenomena in static curved spacetimes and specialize it to the Schwarzschild exterior. The formulation rests on two invariant elements: the gauge-invariant condensate momentum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-10 Reggie C. Pantig , Ali Övgün

We report on the influence a preferential magnetic vortices motion has on the magnitude of the inverse ac Josephson effect (the appearance of dc current Shapiro steps) and the coherent operation of asymmetrical parallel arrays of YBaCuO…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-07 Boris Chesca , Marat Gaifullin , Daniel John , Jonathan Cox , Sergey Savelev , Christopher Mellor

In the Josephson effect, coherent Cooper pair tunneling is driven by the phase difference between the superconducting order parameters on opposite sides of the junction. By analogy, differences in order parameters across a junction should…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-20 D. Chassé , A. -M. S. Tremblay

We study the resistive transition in Josephson-junction arrays at $f=1/2$ flux quantum per plaquette by dynamical simulations of the resistively-shunted-junction model. The current-voltage scaling and critical dynamics of the phases are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Enzo Granato , Daniel Dominguez

We have developed a model for experiments in which the bias current applied to a Josephson junction is slowly increased from zero until the junction switches from its superconducting zero-voltage state, and the bias value at which this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-06 James A. Blackburn , Matteo Cirillo , Niels Grønbech-Jensen

We experimentally study electron transport between two superconducting indium leads, coupled to a single WTe$_2$ crystal, which is a three-dimensional Weyl semimetal. We demonstrate Josephson current in long 5~$\mu$m In-WTe$_2$-In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-21 O. O. Shvetsov , A. Kononov , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

The quantum Hall state at total filling factor $\nu_T=1$ in bilayer systems realizes an exciton condensate and exhibits a zero-bias tunneling anomaly, similar to the Josephson effect in the presence of fluctuations. In contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-14 Timo Hyart , Bernd Rosenow

We study the Josephson effect between chiral p-wave superconductor / diffusive normal metal (DN) / chiral p-wave superconductor (CP/DN/CP) junctions using quasiclassical Green's function formalism with proper boundary conditions. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Sawa , T. Yokoyama , Y. Tanaka , A. A. Golubov

Topological superconductors admit zero-energy Majorana bound states at their boundaries. In this review article, we discuss how to probe these Majorana bound states in Josephson junctions between two topological superconductors. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Driss M. Badiane , Leonid I. Glazman , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer

We consider transport through a Josephson junction consisting of a conventional s-wave superconductor coupled via a double quantum dot to a noncentrosymmetric superconductor with both, singlet and triplet pairing. We calculate the Andreev…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-07-13 Björn Sothmann , Rakesh P. Tiwari

Microwave irradiation of Nb-InAs-Nb junctions reveals frequency-doubled Josephson currents which persist to high temperatures, in the absence of a critical current. A nonequilibrium dynamical model, based on time-dependent Andreev bound…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 K. W. Lehnert , N. Argaman , H. -R. Blank , K. C. Wong , S. J. Allen , E. L. Hu , H. Kroemer

We demonstrate that Josephson devices with nontrivial phase difference $% 0<\varphi_g <\pi $ in the ground state can be realized in structures composed from longitudinally oriented normal metal (N) and ferromagnet (F) films in the weak link…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-11 S. V. Bakurskiy , N. V. Klenov , T. Yu. Karminskaya , M. Yu. Kupriyanov , A. A. Golubov