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The properties of Josephson devices are strongly affected by geometrical effects such as those associated with the magnetic field induced by the bias current. The generally adopted analysis of Owen and Scalapino [{\it Phys. Rev.}{\bf 164},…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-18 Roberto Monaco , Valery P. Koshelets , Anna Mukhortova , Jesper Mygin

Current-biased Josephson junctions exhibit hysteretic transitions between dissipative and superconducting states as characterized by switching and retrapping currents. Here, we develop a theory for diode-like effects in the switching and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-11 Jacob F. Steiner , Larissa Melischek , Martina Trahms , Katharina J. Franke , Felix von Oppen

We investigate the Josephson diode effect (JDE) within quasi-2D planar systems featuring the $C_{1v}$ spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and Zeeman fields in the normal region. Our analysis is based on experimental observations conducted on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-29 Gongqi Wang , Jianjian Miao , Wei-Qiang Chen

The hetero junction between the different materials often gives the rectification effect; e.g., pn junction is used for diode. On the other hand, the Josephson junction between the two superconductors is assumed to show symmetric response…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Kou Misaki , Naoto Nagaosa

We construct a holographic model of superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) in the Einstein-Maxwell-complex scalar theory with a negative cosmological constant. The SQUID ring consists of two Josephson junctions which sit on two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Rong-Gen Cai , Yong-Qiang Wang , Hai-Qing Zhang

We study analytically and numerically the influence of the quasiparticle charge imbalance on the dynamics of the asymmetric Josephson stack formed by two inequivalent junctions: the fast capacitive junction $JJ_{1}$ and slow non-capacitive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-04 S. V. Bakurskiy , A. A. Neilo , N. V. Klenov , I. I. Soloviev , M. Yu. Kupriyanov

We perform microscopic numerical simulations of the Josephson effect through short junctions between two full-shell hybrid nanowires, comprised of a semiconductor core fully wrapped by a thin superconductor shell, both in the trivial and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Carlos Payá , Ramón Aguado , Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada

We study transport in an asymmetric SQUID which is composed of a loop with three capacitively and resistively shunted Josephson junctions: two in series in one arm and the remaining one in the other arm. The loop is threaded by an external…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-09 Jakub Spiechowicz , Peter Hänggi , Jerzy Łuczka

Synchronization between the internal dynamics of the superconducting phase in a Josephson junction (JJ) and an external ac signal is a fundamental physical phenomenon, manifesting as constant-voltage Shapiro steps in the current-voltage…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-23 Pavel N. Tsarev , Yakov V. Fominov

Extended Josephson junction driven by dc bias current is studied numerically. Two types of solutions, symmetrical and asymmetrical, are found. The current-voltage characteristic (IVC) is calculated. The symmetrical solutions form main…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-04-25 Andrey N. Artemov

We investigate the current-phase relations of Al/InAs-quantum well planar Josephson junctions fabricated using nanowire shadowing technique. Based on several experiments, we conclude that the junctions exhibit an unusually large…

Superconducting tunnel junctions constitute the units of superconducting quantum circuits and are massively used both for quantum sensing and quantum computation. In previous works, we predicted the existence of a nonlinear thermoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 G. Marchegiani , A. Braggio , F. Giazotto

Recently, the Josephson diode effect (JDE), in which the superconducting critical current magnitudes differ when the currents flow in opposite directions, has attracted great interest. In particular, it was demonstrated that gate-defined…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-15 Jin-Xin Hu , Zi-Ting Sun , Ying-Ming Xie , K. T. Law

We study the Josephson effect between weakly coupled d-wave superconductors within the quasiclassical theory, in particular, the influence of interface roughness on the current-phase relation and the critical current of mirror junctions and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Lueck , P. Schwab , U. Eckern , A. Shelankov

We study nanodevices based on ultrathin superconducting nanowires connected in parallel to form nanowire SQUIDs. The function of the critical current versus magnetic field, $I_{C}(B)$, is multivalued, asymmetric and its maxima and minima…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-20 Andrew Murphy , Alexey Bezryadin

Edge states in topological systems have attracted great interest due to their robustness and linear dispersions. Here a superconducting-proximitized edge interferometer is engineered on a topological insulator Ta2Pd3Te5 with asymmetric…

We investigate the Josephson diode effect in a superconducting interferometer under nonequilibrium conditions. In contrast to its thermodynamic counterpart, which requires the simultaneous breaking of time-reversal and inversion symmetry,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-12 Daniel Shaffer , Songci Li , Jaglul Hasan , Mikhail Titov , Alex Levchenko

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

We study a 0-$\pi$ dc superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) with asymmetric inductances and critical currents of the two Josephson junctions (JJs). By considering such a dc SQUID as a black box with two terminals, we calculate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 E. Goldobin , D. Koelle , R. Kleiner

We propose a many-body mechanism for a strong Josephson diode effect (JDE) in an interacting nanoscale SQUID formed by two parallel quantum dots coupled to superconducting leads. Unlike conventional diode behavior, where nonreciprocity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-02 Zelei Zhang , Jianxiong Zhai , Yi Zhang , Jiawei Yan