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Huang's experiment [Phys. Rev. Lett. $\bf 109$, 156802 (2012)] found, in the quantum Hall bilayer of the Corbino geometry, the interlayer tunneling currents at two edges are coupled to each other and one of two tunneling currents is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-10 Ya-Fen Hsu , Jung-Jung Su

We demonstrate experimentally manipulation of supercurrent in Al-AlO_x-Ti Josephson tunnel junctions by injecting quasiparticles in a Ti island from two additional tunnel-coupled Al superconducting reservoirs. Both supercurrent enhancement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-10 S. Tirelli , A. M. Savin , C. Pascual Garcia , J. P. Pekola , F. Beltram , F. Giazotto

Superconducting flux qubits are a promising candidate for solid-state quantum computation. One of the reasons is that implementing a controlled coupling between the qubits appears to be relatively easy, if one uses tunable Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 M. J. Storcz , F. K. Wilhelm

We study Josephson current between s-wave/spin-triplet superconductor junctions by taking into account details of band structures in Sr$_{2}$RuO$_{4}$ such as three conduction bands, spin-orbit interaction in the bulk and that at the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-31 Kohei Kawai , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka , Yasuhiro Asano , A. A. Golubov , Satoshi Kashiwaya

We bring forward a unified framework for the study of the superfluid stiffness and the quantum capacitance of superconducting platforms exhibiting conventional spin-singlet pairing. We focus on systems which in their normal phase contain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-14 Jun-Ang Wang , Mohamed Assili , Panagiotis Kotetes

We describe in this paper how the nonlinear Josephson inductance is the crucial circuit element for all Josephson qubits. We discuss the three types of qubit circuits, and show how these circuits use this nonlinearity in unique manners. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 John M. Martinis , Kevin Osborne

Superconducting quantum circuits based on Josephson junctions have made rapid progress in demonstrating quantum behavior and scalability. However, the future prospects ultimately depend upon the intrinsic coherence of Josephson junctions,…

Recent experiments reported that quantum Hall chiral edge state-mediated Josephson junctions (chiral Josephson junctions) could exhibit Fraunhofer oscillations with a periodicity of either $h/e$ [Vignaud \textit{et al}.,~Nature~(2023)] or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Zi-Ting Sun , Jin-Xin Hu , Ying-Ming Xie , K. T. Law

Topological superconductors which support Majorana fermions are thought to be realized in one-dimensional semiconducting wires coupled to a superconductor. Such excitations are expected to exhibit non-Abelian statistics and can be used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Leonid P. Rokhinson , Xinyu Liu , Jacek K. Furdyna

Topological quantum computation relies on a protected degenerate subspace enabling complicated operations in a noise-resilient way. To this end, hybrid platforms based on non-Abelian quasiparticles such as parafermions hold great promise.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Alessio Calzona , Matteo Carrega , Luca Chirolli

The Josephson effect describes the generic appearance of a supercurrent in a weak link between two superconductors. Its exact physical nature however deeply influences the properties of the supercurrent. Detailed studies of Josephson…

Semiconducting nanowire Josephson junctions represent an attractive platform to investigate the anomalous Josephson effect and detect topological superconductivity by studying Josephson supercurrent. However, an external magnetic field…

We consider an annular superconductor-insulator-superconductor Josephson-junction, with the insulator being a double layer of electron and holes at Abelian fractional quantum Hall states of identical fillings. When the two superconductors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-02 Eran Sagi , Yuval Oreg , Ady Stern , Bertrand I. Halperin

We study the Josephson effect in spin-triplet superconductor$-$quantum anomalous Hall insulator$-$spin-triplet superconductor junctions using the nonequilibrium Green function method. The current-phase difference relations show strong…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-27 Qiang Cheng , Qing Yan , Qing-Feng Sun

Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor Josephson field-effect transistors (JoFETs) function as Josephson junctions with a gate-tunable critical current. Additionally, they can feature a non-sinusoidal current-phase relation (CPR) containing…

Here, we report experimental evidence suggesting the emergence of robust, possibly chiral, edge states in artificially engineered multilayers composed of alternating nanometer-thick layers of nonmagnetic aluminum (Al) and ferromagnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-29 M. Belogolovskii , I. P. Nevirkovets

We propose theoretically a Josephson diode consisting of the conventional superconductors with the plain s-wave pairing and a chiral quantum dot. When an external magnetic field is exerted on the quantum dot, the critical current of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Qiang Cheng , Qing-Feng Sun

At total filling factor $\nu_T=1$, interlayer phase coherence in quantum Hall bilayers can result in a tunneling anomaly resembling the Josephson effect in the presence of strong fluctuations. The most robust experimental signature of this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-19 Timo Hyart , Bernd Rosenow

We propose a realization of the superconducting diode effect in flux biased superconducting circuits of Josephson junctions. So far the observation of the superconducting diode effect has been limited to rather exotic material platforms. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-07 Rafael Haenel , Oguzhan Can

Hybrid structures of quantum spin-Hall insulators (QSHIs) and superconductors (Ss) present a unique opportunity to access dissipationless topological states of matter, which, however, is frequently hindered by the lack of control over the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 G. Tkachov