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Shadow evaporation is commonly used to micro-fabricate the key element of superconducting qubits - the Josephson junction. However, in conventional two-angle deposition circuit topology, unwanted stray Josephson junctions are created which…

The modern understanding of the Josephson effect in mesosopic devices derives from the physics of Andreev bound states, fermionic modes that are localized in a superconducting weak link. Recently, Josephson junctions constructed using…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-01 M. Hays , G. de Lange , K. Serniak , D. J. van Woerkom , D. Bouman , P. Krogstrup , J. Nygård , A. Geresdi , M. H. Devoret

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

The duality between coherent quantum phase slip and Josephson junction in nanosheets was investigated using the dual Hamiltonian method. This is equivalent to the duality between superconductivity and superinsulator in the 2 + 1 dimension…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-09 M. Yoneda , M. Niwa , M. Motohashi

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

Semiconducting nanowire Josephson junctions represent an attractive platform to investigate the anomalous Josephson effect and detect topological superconductivity by studying Josephson supercurrent. However, an external magnetic field…

We have prepared meta-atoms based on radio frequency superconducting quantum interference devices (RF SQUIDs) and examined their tunability with dc magnetic field, rf current, and temperature. RF SQUIDs are superconducting split ring…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-12-24 M. Trepanier , Daimeng Zhang , Oleg Mukhanov , Steven M. Anlage

Chapter 1: Superconductivity in thin SN bilayers. Chapter 2: Proximity effect in SF systems. Chapter 3: Josephson effect in SFS junctions. Chapter 4: Decoherence due to nodal quasiparticles in d-wave Josephson junctions.

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Yakov Fominov

Superconductor-Ferromagnet-Superconductor (S-F-S) Josephson junctions were fabricated by making a narrow cut through a S-F double layer using direct writing by Focused Ion Beam (FIB). Due to a high resolution (spot size smaller than 10 nm)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 V. M. Krasnov , O. Ericsson , S. Intiso , P. Delsing , V. A. Oboznov , A. S. Prokofiev , V. V. Ryazanov

Proximity induced superconducting energy gap in the surface states of topological insulators has been predicted to host the much wanted Majorana fermions for fault tolerant quantum computation. Recent theoretically proposed architectures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Biplab Bhattacharyya , V. P. S. Awana , T. D. Senguttuvan , V. N. Ojha , Sudhir Husale

The stationary Josephson effect in a system of ballistic graphene is studied in the framework of quasiclassical Green's function theory. Reflecting the ultimate two-dimensionality of graphene, a Josephson junction involving a graphene sheet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-24 Yositake Takane , Ken-Ichiro Imura

Three-dimensional topological Dirac semimetals have recently gained significant attention, since they possess exotic quantum states. When constructing Josephson junctions utilizing these materials as the weak link, the fractional ac…

We present a theoretical analysis of the equilibrium Josephson current-phase relation in hybrid devices made of conventional s-wave spin-singlet superconductors (S) and topological superconductor (TS) wires featuring Majorana end states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 A. Zazunov , A. Iks , M. Alvarado , A. Levy Yeyati , R. Egger

Coherence of superconducting qubits can be improved by implementing designs that protect the parity of Cooper pairs on superconducting islands. Here, we introduce a parity-protected qubit based on voltage-controlled semiconductor nanowire…

Superconducting circuits based on hybrid InAs Josephson Junctions (JJs) play a starring role in the design of fast and ultra-low power consumption solid-state quantum electronics and exploring novel physical phenomena. Conventionally, 3D…

The Josephson diode effect (JDE), a nonreciprocal supercurrent, is a cornerstone for future dissipationless electronics, yet achieving high efficiency in a simple device architecture remains a significant challenge. Here, we theoretically…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-01 Guo-Liang Guo , Xiao-Hong Pan , Hao Dong , Xin Liu

Controlled fabrication of twisted van der Waals heterostructures is essential to unlock the full potential of moire materials. However, achieving reproducibility remains a major challenge, particularly for air-sensitive materials such as…

Quantum phase-slip (QPS) is the exact dual to the well-known Josephson effect. Although there are numerous proposals for applications of QPS devices, experimental work to develop these remains in the relatively early stages. Significant…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-06 Jamie A. Potter , Jonathan C. Fenton , Paul A. Warburton

We report on experiments with superconducting metamaterials containing Josephson junctions. In these structures, split-ring resonators used in conventional metamaterials are replaced by superconducting loops that are interrupted by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-01 Philipp Jung , Susanne Butz , Sergey V. Shitov , Alexey V. Ustinov

We describe the design for a scalable, solid-state quantum-information-processing architecture based on the integration of GHz-frequency nanomechanical resonators with Josephson tunnel junctions, which has the potential for demonstrating a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael R. Geller , Andrew N. Cleland