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The ac Josephson effect in a ferromagnetic Josephson junction, which is composed of two superconductors separated by a ferromagnetic metal (FM), is studied by a tunneling Hamiltonian and Green's function method. We obtain two types of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Hikino , M. Mori , S. Takahashi , S. Maekawa

A non-equilibrium state in a Rashba system under an in-plane magnetic field is identified as the origin of the Josephson diode effect. This state is induced by a current bias--necessary for measuring the current-voltage…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-06 Michiyasu Mori , Wataru Koshibae , Sadamichi Maekawa

The superconducting diode effect (SDE) is a magneto-electric phenomenon where an external magnetic field imparts a non-zero center-of-mass momentum to Cooper pairs, either facilitating or hindering the flow of supercurrent depending on its…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-18 Benedikt Scharf , Denis Kochan , Alex Matos-Abiague

We present direct measurements of the current-phase relation for lateral Josephson junctions with a graphene barrier, obtained by a phase-sensitive SQUID interferometry technique. We find that the current-phase relation is forward skewed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-01 Christopher English , David Hamilton , Cesar Chialvo , Ion Moraru , Nadya Mason , Dale Van Harlingen

The quantum Josephson voltage standard is well established across the metrology community for many years. It relies on the synchronisation of the flux tunneling in the S/I/S Josepson junctions (JJ) with the microwave radiation (MW). The…

We study the Josephson effect in spin-triplet superconductor$-$quantum anomalous Hall insulator$-$spin-triplet superconductor junctions using the nonequilibrium Green function method. The current-phase difference relations show strong…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-27 Qiang Cheng , Qing Yan , Qing-Feng Sun

We investigate nonreciprocal supercurrent phenomena in superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) that integrate Josephson junctions with single and multiband order parameters, which may exhibit time-reversal symmetry breaking.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-30 Yuriy Yerin , Stefan-Ludwig Drechsler , A. A. Varlamov , Francesco Giazotto , Mario Cuoco

We present a general mechanism for large charge and spin Josephson diode effects in strongly spin-polarized superconductor-ferromagnet hybrid structures with a noncoplanar spin texture, formulated in terms of quantum-geometric phases. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-03 Niklas L. Schulz , Danilo Nikolić , Matthias Eschrig

A theory is offered for a novel device, mesoscopic four-terminal SQUID. The studied system consists of a mesoscopic four-terminal junction, one pair of terminals of which is incorporated in a superconducting ring and the other one is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. H. S. Amin , A. N. Omelyanchouk , A. M. Zagoskin

We present a new theoretical framework to analyze microwave amplifiers based on the dc SQUID. Our analysis applies input-output theory generalized for Josephson junction devices biased in the running state. Using this approach we express…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-10-11 Archana Kamal , John Clarke , Michel Devoret

We theoretically investigate the anomalous and diode Josephson effects in planar two-dimensional Josephson junctions with arbitrarily oriented exchange fields in two ferromagnets within the barrier, and spin-orbit coupling at the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-12 Stevan Djurdjević , Zorica Popović

We have fabricated and studied a new kind of DC SQUID in which the magnitude and sign of the critical current of the individual Josephson junctions can be controlled by additional voltage probes connected to the junctions. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. J. A. Baselmans , B. J. van Wees , T. M. Klapwijk

We report a gate-tunable Josephson diode effect in hybrid nanowire junctions consisting of a spin-orbit-coupled semiconductor core coated with epitaxial ferromagnetic insulator and superconductor shells. The wires display a hysteretic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Sjoerd Telkamp , Junting Zhao , Saulius Vaitiekėnas

We theoretically investigate the critical current of a thermally-biased SIS Josephson junction formed by electrodes made by different BCS superconductors. The response of the device is analyzed as a function of the asymmetry parameter,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Claudio Guarcello , Alessandro Braggio , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto

We have measured the current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of small-capacitance single Josephson junctions at low temperatures (T=0.02-0.6 K), where the strength of the coupling between the single junction and the electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michio Watanabe , David B. Haviland

An array of resistively and capacitively shunted Josephson junctions with nonsinusoidal current-phase relation is considered for modelling the transition in high-T$_c$ superconductors. The emergence of higher harmonics, besides the simple…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-01-04 A. Carbone , M. Gilli , P. Mazzetti , L. Ponta

By use of the multi-Josephson junction model, we investigate voltage-biased I-V characteristics. Differently from the case of the single junction, I-V characteristics show a complicated behavior due to inter-layer couplings among…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Sakamoto , H. Matsumoto , T. Koyama , M. Machida

Unlike for tunneling Josephson junctions, for which the current-phase relation is given by the sine function, with the critical current ($I_c$) and normal-state resistance ($R_N$) following the relation $I_cR_N=(\pi/2)\,\Delta_0/e$ (where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Adam Rycerz

Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor Josephson field-effect transistors (JoFETs) function as Josephson junctions with a gate-tunable critical current. Additionally, they can feature a non-sinusoidal current-phase relation (CPR) containing…

The Josephson diode effect describes the property of a Josephson junction to have different values of the critical current for different direction of applied bias current and it is the focus of intense research thanks to the possible…