English
Related papers

Related papers: Microwave-Tunable Diode Effect in Asymmetric SQUID…

200 papers

Cr$_{1/3}$NbS$_{2}$ is a transition metal dichalcogenide that is also a chiral helimagnet, and so lacks inversion symmetry and has non-zero Berry curvature in position and momentum space. It is well known that the combination of broken…

The Josephson junction is typically tuned by a magnetic field or electrostatic gates to realize a superconducting transistor, which manipulates the supercurrent in integrated superconducting circuits. However, this tunable method does not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Guo-Jian Qiao , Zhi-Lei Zhang , Sheng-Wen Li , C. P. Sun

We theoretically study the direct and inverse spin Hall effects in a superconductor-normal metal-superconductor junction induced by a spin-orbit interaction that is invariant under spatial inversion. We show that a supercurrent induces a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Gen Tatara , Yositake Takane , Aurelien Manchon

Motivated by the recent proposals for unconventional emergent physics in twisted bilayers of nodal superconductors, we study the peculiarities of the Josephson effect at the twisted interface between $d$-wave superconductors. We demonstrate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-31 Pavel A. Volkov , Shu Yang Frank Zhao , Nicola Poccia , Xiaomeng Cui , Philip Kim , J. H. Pixley

Superconductivity is a result of quantum coherence at macroscopic scales. Two superconductors separated by a metallic or insulating weak link exhibit the AC Josephson effect - the conversion of a DC voltage bias into an AC supercurrent.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-31 Thomas McDermott , Hai-Yao Deng , Andreas Isacsson , Eros Mariani

Josephson weak links made of two-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) exhibit magnetic oscillations of the supercurrent that are reminiscent of those in superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs). We propose a microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-13 G. Tkachov , P. Burset , B. Trauzettel , E. M. Hankiewicz

The properties of Josephson devices are strongly affected by geometrical effects such as those associated with the magnetic field induced by the bias current. The generally adopted analysis of Owen and Scalapino [{\it Phys. Rev.}{\bf 164},…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-18 Roberto Monaco , Valery P. Koshelets , Anna Mukhortova , Jesper Mygin

Hybrid superconductor(S)-semiconductor(Sm) devices bring a range of new functionalities into superconducting circuits. In particular, hybrid parity-protected qubits and Josephson diodes were recently proposed and experimentally…

For certain orientations of Josephson junctions between two p_x-wave or two d-wave superconductors, the subgap Andreev bound states produce a 4pi-periodic relation between the Josephson current I and the phase difference phi: I ~…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Hyok-Jon Kwon , K. Sengupta , Victor M. Yakovenko

Josephson junctions enable dissipation-less electrical current through metals and insulators below a critical current. Despite being central to quantum technology based on superconducting quantum bits and fundamental research into…

We present a theory for the Josephson effect in an unconventional superconductor / one-dimensional electron gas / unconventional superconductor (s/o/s) junction, where the Josephson current is carried by components injected perpendicular to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Yukio Tanaka , Takashi Hirai , Koichi Kusakabe , Satoshi Kashiwaya

Current flow in electronic devices can be asymmetric with bias direction, a phenomenon underlying the utility of diodes and known as non-reciprocal charge transport. The promise of dissipationless electronics has recently stimulated the…

The hetero junction between the different materials often gives the rectification effect; e.g., pn junction is used for diode. On the other hand, the Josephson junction between the two superconductors is assumed to show symmetric response…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Kou Misaki , Naoto Nagaosa

Transport is called nonreciprocal when not only the sign, but also the absolute value of the current, depends on the polarity of the applied voltage. It requires simultaneously broken inversion and time-reversal symmetries, e.g., by the…

The transmission of Cooper pairs between two weakly coupled superconductors produces a superfluid current and a phase difference; the celebrated Josephson effect. Because of time-reversal and parity symmetries, there is no Josephson current…

The simultaneous breaking of time-reversal and inversion symmetry, in connection to superconductivity, leads to transport properties with disrupting scientific and technological potential. Indeed, the anomalous Josephson effect and the…

Due to the absence of a center of inversion in some superconducting compounds, a p-wave admixture to the dominant d-wave order parameter must exist. If time-reversal is also violated, an allowed invariant is the product of the d-wave,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 Brigitte Leridon , Tai-Kai Ng , C. M. Varma

We study theoretically the Josephson current-phase relationship in a chaotic quantum dot coupled to superconductors by ballistic contacts. In this regime, strong proximity effect induces superconductivity in the quantum dot that leads to a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-27 Colin M. Whisler , Maxim G. Vavilov , Alex Levchenko

Topological superconductors are gapped superconductors with protected Majorana surface/edge states on the boundary. In this paper, we study the Josephson coupling between time-reversal invariant topological superconductors and s-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-01-17 Suk Bum Chung , Joshua Horowitz , Xiao-Liang Qi

Coherent tunneling processes of multiple Cooper pairs across a Josephson junction give rise to higher harmonics in the current phase relation. In this work, we propose and study Josephson junctions based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Andrea Maiani , Karsten Flensberg , Martin Leijnse , Constantin Schrade , Saulius Vaitiekėnas , Rubén Seoane Souto