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We investigate the detection of quartets in hybrid multiterminal Josephson junctions. Using simple models of quantum dots coupled to superconducting leads, we find that quartets are ubiquitous and show how to rigorously extract their…

Spectra and spin structures of Andreev interface states in S-FIF-S junctions are investigated with emphasis on finite transparency and misorientation angle between in-plane magnetizations of ferromagnetic layers in a three-layer interface.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu. S. Barash , I. V. Bobkova , T. Kopp

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 theoretically study Josephson junctions with a transition metal dichalcogenide zigzag ribbon as a weak link. We demonstrate that the spatial profile of the supercurrent carried by the edge modes determines the critical current dependence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 D. Sticlet , P. Wójcik , M. P. Nowak

We calculate the electrical currents through a superconductor - insulator - superconductor junction which is also weakly coupled to a normal metal side probe. The voltage $V$ applied to the normal metal terminal controls the occupation of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 H. Tolga Ilhan , H. Volkan Demir , Philip F. Bagwell

We study one-dimensional topological SN and SNS long junctions obtained by placing a topological insulating nanowire in the proximity of either one or two SC finite-size leads. Using the Majorana Polarization order parameter (MP) introduced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-12 D. Chevallier , D. Sticlet , P. Simon , C. Bena

We investigate the Josephson effcet in superconductor-normal-superconductor junction (SNS) base on the doped unbiased silicene under the perpendicular electric field and off-resonance circularly polarized light. The Andreev reflection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-28 Chen-Huan Wu

The stationnary Josephson effect in a clean Superconductor-Ferromagnet-Superconductor junction is revisited for arbitrarily large spin polarizations. The quasiclassical calculation of the supercurrent assumes that the Andreev reflection is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Cayssol , G. Montambaux

In semiconducting-superconducting hybrid devices, Andreev bound states (ABSs) can mediate the coupling between quantum dots (QDs), allowing for the realisation of artificial Kitaev chains. In order to engineer Majorana bound states (MBSs)…

Multiply connected electronic networks threaded by flux tubes have been proposed as a platform for adiabatic quantum transport and topological states. Multi-terminal Josephson junction (MTJJ) has been suggested as a pathway to realize this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Woochan Jung , Seyoung Jin , Sein Park , Seung-Hyun Shin , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Gil Young Cho , Gil-Ho Lee

Using a generalization of the non-crossing approximation which incorporates Andreev reflection, we study the properties of an infinite-U Anderson impurity coupled to two superconducting leads. In the regime where $\Delta$ and $T_K$ are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Aashish A. Clerk , Vinay Ambegaokar

We study an atomic Josephson junction (AJJ) in presence of two interacting Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) confined in a double well trap. We assume that bosons of different species interact with each other. The macroscopic wave functions…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-13 Giovanni Mazzarella , Marco Moratti , Luca Salasnich , Mario Salerno , Flavio Toigo

A recently developed theory for the problem of Andreev reflection between a normal metal (N) and a multiband superconductor (MBS) assumes that the incident wave from the normal metal is coherently transmitted through several bands inside…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-14 M. A. N. Araujo , P. D. Sacramento

We study the charge character of the Andreev bound states (ABSs) in one-dimensional topological superconductors with spatial inversion symmetry (SIS) breaking. Despite the absence of the SIS, we show a hidden symmetry for the Bogoliubov de…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-09-10 Xiong-Jun Liu

Andreev bound states are superpositions of electrons and holes in a metal that form by coherent reflection from a superconductor. When the length of the superconductor is comparable to the superconducting coherence length, Andreev bound…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Anders Enevold Dahl , Andrea Maiani , Max Geier , Javad Shabani , Karsten Flensberg

An all-superconducting bijunction consists of a central superconductor contacted to two lateral superconductors, such that non-local crossed Andreev reflection is operating. Then new correlated transport channels for the Cooper pairs appear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-05 T. Jonckheere , J. Rech , T. Martin , B. Douçot , D. Feinberg , R. Mélin

We extend the basic theory of Andreev reflection (AR) in a normal metal/superconductor junction to the situation with an arbitrary time-dependent bias voltage $V(t)$ across the junction. The central element of the theory is the fact that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Dmitri V. Averin , Gongqi Wang , Andrey S. Vasenko

Multiterminal Josephson junctions offer a powerful playground for exploring exotic superconducting and topological phenomena beyond the reach of conventional two-terminal devices. In this work, we present the direct spectroscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Asmaul Smitha Rashid , Le Yi , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Nitin Samarth , Régis Mélin , Morteza Kayyalha

The Josephson Effect and Superconducting Proximity Effect were observed in Superconductor -Graphene-Superconductor (SGS) Josephson junctions with coherence lengths comparable to the distance between the superconducting leads. By comparing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Eva Y. Andrei

We consider phase-biased Josephson junctions with spin-orbit coupling under external magnetic fields and study the emergence of the Josephson diode effect in the presence of Majorana bound states. We show that junctions having middle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-08 Jorge Cayao , Naoto Nagaosa , Yukio Tanaka