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We study the Josephson effect in a clean noncentrosymmetric superconductor/half-metal/noncentrosymmetric superconductor junction, which is grown on the surface of a three-dimensional Topological Insulator (TI) in the ballistic limit. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-08 Saumen Acharjee , Umananda Dev Goswami

We experimentally investigate charge transport through a single planar junction between a NiTe$_2$ Dirac semimetal and a normal gold lead. At millikelvin temperatures we observe non-Ohmic $dV/dI(V)$ behavior resembling Andreev reflection at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 V. D. Esin , O. O. Shvetsov , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

We study the superconducting Josephson junction diode operating via the magnetic field of skyrmions. Inspired by the near-field optical microscopy, we propose to partially screen the magnetic field and analyze part-by-part the magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-17 A. Sinner , X. -G. Wang , S. S. P. Parkin , A. Ernst , V. Dugaev , L. Chotorlishvili

Recent experimental advancements in dissipation control have yielded significant insights into non-hermitian Hamiltonians for open quantum systems. Of particular interest are the topological characteristics exhibited by these non-hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 David Christian Ohnmacht , Valentin Wilhelm , Hannes Weisbrich , Wolfgang Belzig

Doped strong topological insulators are one of the most promising candidates to realize a fully gapped three-dimensional topological superconductor (TSC). In this letter, we revisit this system and reveal a possibility for higher-order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-03 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Jennifer Cano , Enrico Rossi , Taylor L. Hughes

We present data on the modulation of the critical current with applied magnetic field in UPt_3-Cu-Pb Josephson junctions and SQUIDs. The junctions were fabricated on polished surfaces of UPt_3 single crystals. The shape of the resulting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-07-02 J. D. Strand , D. J. Van Harlingen , J. B. Kycia , W. P. Halperin

We study Josephson junctions based on second-order topological superconductors (SOTSs) which can be realized in quantum spin Hall insulators with large inverted gap in proximity to unconventional superconductors. We find that tuning the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-22 Song-Bo Zhang , Björn Trauzettel

Identifying the origins of suppression of the critical current at grain boundaries of high-critical-temperature superconductors, such as cuprates and iron-based superconductors, is a crucial issue to be solved for future applications with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-19 Takashi Sakamori , Satoshi Kashiwaya , Rikizo Yano , Yukio Tanaka , Takafumi Hatano , Keiji Yada

In the recent years it has been possible to achieve diode-like, non-reciprocal current-voltage response in Josephson junctions, despite the intrinsic symmetry of the Josephson effect itself. This is typically achieved by incorporating…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-19 Debashree Nayak , Dimple Rani , Prasanjit Samal , Kartik Senapati

We study new types of Josephson junctions composed of helical $p$-wave superconductors with $k_{x}\hat{x}\pm k_{y}\hat{y}$ and $k_{y}\hat{x}\pm k_{x}\hat{y}$-pairing symmetries using quasiclassical Green's functions with the generalized…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-02 Qiang Cheng , Kunhua Zhang , Dongyang Yu , Chongju Chen , Yinhan Zhang , Biao Jin

Atomtronics has the potential for engineering new types of functional devices, such as Josephson junctions (JJs). Previous studies have mainly focused on JJs whose ground states have 0 or $\pi $ superconducting phase difference across the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-19 Lei Jiang , Yong Xu , Chuanwei Zhang

We determine, using a self consistent method, the charge and spin currents in ballistic Josephson junctions consisting of ferromagnetic ($F$) layers sandwiched between superconducting ($S$) electrodes ($SFS$-type junctions). When there are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-24 Klaus Halterman , Oriol T. Valls , Chien-Te Wu

Currently, much effort is being put into detecting unconventional p-wave superconductivity in Josephson junctions based on topological insulators (TIs). For that purpose we propose to use superconducting Klein tunneling, i.e. the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 G. Tkachov , E. M. Hankiewicz

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

Transition metal dichalcogenides like 2H-NbSe2 in their two-dimensional (2D) form exhibit Ising superconductivity with the quasiparticle spins are firmly pinned in the direction perpendicular to the basal plane. This enables them to…

Ferromagnetism and superconductivity are two key ingredients to create non-Abelian quasiparticle excitations that are expected as building blocks to construct topological quantum computers. Adversely, ferromagnetism and superconductivity…

Edge states in topological systems have attracted great interest due to their robustness and linear dispersions. Here a superconducting-proximitized edge interferometer is engineered on a topological insulator Ta2Pd3Te5 with asymmetric…

Topological superconductivity is central to a variety of novel phenomena involving the interplay between topologically ordered phases and broken-symmetry states. The key ingredient is an unconventional order parameter, with an orbital…

Two-dimensional arrays of ballistic Josephson junctions are important as model systems for synthetic quantum materials. Here, we investigate arrays of multiterminal junctions which exhibit a phase difference $\varphi_0$ at zero current.…

Superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor Josephson junctions are known to exist in the $0$ and $\pi$ states with the transitions between them controlled by the temperature and ferromagnetic interlayer thickness. We demonstrate that these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-18 A. Vargunin , M. A. Silaev