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We study the transport properties of a graphene ferromagnet-insulator superconductor (FIS) junction within the Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk formalism by solving spin-polarized Dirac-Bogoliubov-de-Gennes equation. We find that the retro and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ya-Fen Hsu , Guang-Yu Guo

Twisted bilayer graphene has a rich phase diagram, including superconductivity. Recently, an unexpected discovery has been the observation of superconductivity in non-twisted graphene bilayers and trilayers. In this Perspective, we give an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Pierre A. Pantaleon , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Hector Sainz-Cruz , Vo Tien Phong , Tommaso Cea , Francisco Guinea

The interplay of superconductivity, magnetic fields, and spin-orbit interaction lies at the heart of topological superconductivity. Remarkably, the recent experimental discovery of $\varphi_{0}$ Josephson junctions by Szombati et al., Nat.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Constantin Schrade , Silas Hoffman , Daniel Loss

In an in-situ prepared three-terminal Josephson junction based on the topological insulator Bi$_4$Te$_3$ and the superconductor Nb the transport properties are studied. The differential resistance maps as a function of two bias currents…

In tunneling spectroscopy studies of ferromagnet/superconductor (F/S) junctions, the effects of spin polarization, Fermi wavevector mismatch (FWM) between the F and S regions, and interfacial resistance play a crucial role. We study the low…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Igor Zutic , Oriol T. Valls

We investigate the behavior of a Josephson junction consisting of a ferromagnetic insulator-superconductor (FI-S) bilayer tunnel-coupled to a superconducting electrode. We show that the Josephson coupling in the structure is strenghtened by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-17 F. S. Bergeret , F. Giazotto

We analyze the properties of flat-band superconductor junctions that behave differently from ordinary junctions containing only metals with Fermi surfaces. In particular, we show how in the tunneling limit the critical Josephson current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-08 P. Virtanen , R. P. S. Penttilä , P. Törmä , A. Díez-Carlón , D. K. Efetov , T. T. Heikkilä

We have fabricated superconductor-normal metal side-junctions with different barrier transparencies out of PdTe$_2$ crystalline flakes and measured the differential conductance spectra. Modeling our measurements using a modified Blonder…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-01 J. A. Voerman , J. C. de Boer , T. Hashimoto , Yingkai Huang , Chuan Li , A. Brinkman

Recent experiments have demonstrated the possibility to design highly controllable junctions on magic angle twisted bilayer graphene, enabling the test of its superconducting transport properties. We show that the presence of chiral pairing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 Miguel Alvarado , Pablo Burset , Alfredo Levy Yeyati

We have examined the electrical behavior of Josephson junctions formed by a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) with a Nb sample and a Nb tip, with normal-state resistances Rn varying between 1 kOhm and 10 MOhm. Current-voltage…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-16 Wan-Ting Liao , S. K. Dutta , R. E. Butera , C. J. Lobb , F. C. Wellstood , M. Dreyer

We theoretically study topological planar Josephson junctions (JJs) formed from spin-orbit-coupled two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) proximitized by two superconductors and subjected to an in-plane magnetic field $B_\parallel$.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 F. Setiawan , Ady Stern , Erez Berg

We demonstrate Josephson tunneling in vacuum tunnel junctions formed between a superconducting scanning tunneling microscope tip and a Pb film, for junction resistances in the range 50-300 k$\Omega$. We show that the superconducting phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Naaman , W. Teizer , R. C. Dynes

We report an experimental study on the tuning of supercurrent in a ballistic graphene-based Josephson junction by applying a control voltage to a transverse normal channel. In this four-terminal geometry, the control voltage changes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 P. Pandey , D. Beckmann , R. Danneau

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), with rotational misalignment close to 1.1$^\circ$, features isolated flat electronic bands that host a rich phase diagram of correlated insulating, superconducting, ferromagnetic, and topological…

Josephson junctions (JJ) are a fundamental component of microwave quantum circuits, such as tunable cavities, qubits and parametric amplifiers. Recently developed encapsulated graphene JJs, with supercurrents extending over micron distance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Felix E. Schmidt , Mark D. Jenkins , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Gary A. Steele

We have developed a method for the reproducible fabrication of superconducting scanning tunneling microscope (STM) tips. We use these tips to form superconductor/insulator/superconductor tunnel junctions with the STM tip as one of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Naaman , R. C. Dynes , E. Bucher

Mechanism of superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) remains one of the central problems in correlated moir\'e materials. The most intriguing question is about the nature of the normal state: is the Cooper pair formed from small…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-18 Jing-Yu Zhao , Ya-Hui Zhang

Several research groups have reported on the observation of superconductivity in bilayer graphene structures where single atomic layers of graphene are stacked and then twisted at angles $\theta$ forming Moir\'e superlattices. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-15 Evgueni F. Talantsev , Ratu C. Mataira , Wayne P. Crump

I consider a Josephson junction crossing the middle of a thin rectangular superconducting strip of length L and width W subjected to a perpendicular magnetic induction B. I calculate the spatial dependence of the gauge-invariant phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 John R. Clem

Strongly interacting electrons in solid-state systems often display tendency towards multiple broken symmetries in the ground state. The complex interplay between different order parameters can give rise to a rich phase diagram. Here, we…