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We study Andreev bound states and $\pi $-junction transition in a superconductor / quantum-dot / superconductor (S-QD-S) system by Green function method. We derive an equation to describe the Andreev bound states in S-QD-S system, and…

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We investigate the nonequilibrium current response in diffusive superconductor-normal-metal-superconductor junctions subjected to a low-frequency AC voltage. Using a kinetic description based on the adiabatic motion of Andreev bound states,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-02 Tony Liu , Alex Levchenko

The transition-metal dichalcogenides featuring Ising spin-orbit coupling in so-called Ising superconductors offer a unique system to study the interplay of singlet and triplet superconductivity. The presence of high critical fields,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Sourabh Patil , Gaomin Tang , Wolfgang Belzig

Josephson weak links in superconductors can be engineered such that the phase difference across the junction is $\pi$ ($\pi$-junction),leading to the reversal of the current. The conditions under which the analogous effect of supercurrent…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Sakellari , N. P. Proukakis , M. Leadbeater , C. S. Adams

Establishment of phase-coherence and a non-dissipative (super)current between two weakly coupled superconductors, known as the Josephson effect, plays a foundational role in basic physics and applications to metrology, precision sensing,…

The phase-dependent bound states (Andreev levels) of a Josephson junction can cross at the Fermi level, if the superconducting ground state switches between even and odd fermion parity. The level crossing is topologically protected, in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-23 C. W. J. Beenakker , J. M. Edge , J. P. Dahlhaus , D. I. Pikulin , Shuo Mi , M. Wimmer

We show that the time reversal symmetry inevitably breaks in a superconducting Josephson junction formed by two superconductors with different pairing symmetries dubbed as i-Josephson junction. While the leading conventional Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 Zhesen Yang , Shengshan Qin , Qiang Zhang , Chen Fang , Jiangping Hu

The Josephson effect is a fundamental quantum phenomenon consisting in the appearance of a dissipationless supercurrent in a weak link between two superconducting (S) electrodes. While the mechanism leading to the Josephson effect is quite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-13 J. Paajaste , E. Strambini , M. Amado , S. Roddaro , P. San-Jose , R. Aguado , F. S. Bergeret , D. Ercolani , L. Sorba , F. Giazotto

In a standard Josephson junction the current is zero when the phase difference between the superconducting leads is zero. This condition is protected by parity and time-reversal symmetries. However, the combined presence of spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 William Mayer , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , Joseph Yuan , Kaushini S. Wickramasinghe , Enrico Rossi , Javad Shabani

The current-voltage characteristics of Josephson junctions exhibit a subharmonic gap structure (SGS), denoting jumps at specific voltages. While the prevalent multiple Andreev reflection theory matches the experimentally observed SGS, it is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Aritra Lahiri , Sang-Jun Choi , Björn Trauzettel

We study theoretically the shape of the current-phase relation in a Josephson junction comprising the Zeeman-split superconductors (ZSs) and a normal metal (N). We show that at low temperatures the Josephson current in the ZS/N/ZS junctions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-24 Shu-Ichiro Suzuki , Yasuhiro Asano , Alexander A. Golubov

We investigate theoretically charge transport in hybrid multiterminal junctions with superconducting leads kept at different voltages. It is found that multiple Andreev reflections involving several superconducting leads give rise to rich…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-21 M. Houzet , P. Samuelsson

We study a quantum dot Josephson junction inside an Aharonov-Bohm environment. The geometry is modeled by an Anderson impurity coupled to two directly-linked BCS leads. We illustrate that the well-established picture of the low-energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Karrasch , V. Meden

We report an observation of a new, non dissipative and non local supercurrent, carried by quartets; each consisting of four entangled electrons. The supercurrent is a result of a novel Andreev bound state (ABS), formed among three…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Yonatan Cohen , Yuval Ronen , Jung-Hyun Kang , Moty Heiblum , Denis Feinberg , Régis Mélin , Hadas Shtrikman

We study quantum transport in ballistic $s_\pm$-wave superconductors where coupling between the two bands is included, and apply our model to three possible probes for detecting the internal phase shift of such a pairing state: tunneling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-08 Iver Bakken Sperstad , Jacob Linder , Asle Sudbø

In an extended superconductor-topological insulator-superconductor (S-TI-S) Josephson junction in a magnetic field, localized Majorana bound states (MBS) are predicted to exist at the cores of Josephson vortices where the local phase…

Last years many interesting effects related to incoherent MAR have been experimentally found, but only few of them were theoretically explained. It was shown, for example, that if the voltage at the edges of a linear array is $V$ then…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-11 N. M. Chtchelkatchev

Andreev bound states trapped in a multi-terminal Josephson junction (JJ) can be assigned a synthetic band topology owing to their periodic dependence on the Josephson phase bias. We demonstrate that the BdG symmetry adds a twist to this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Aabir Mukhopadhyay , Udit Khanna , Sourin Das

We have generalized the scattering-matrix theory of multiple Andreev reflections in mesoscopic Josephson junctions to the multi-mode case, and applied it to short superconductor/normal metal/superconductor junctions with diffusive electron…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-02-03 Athanassios Bardas , Dmitri V. Averin

Non-linear charge transport in SIS Josephson junctions has a unique signature in the shuttled charge quantum between the two superconductors. In the zero-bias limit Cooper pairs, each with twice the electron charge, carry the Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Yuval Ronen , Yonatan Cohen , Jung-Hyun Kang , Arbel Haim , Maria-Theresa Rieder , Moty Heiblum , Diana Mahalu , Hadas Shtrikman