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It is widely believed that superconducting junctions involving topological insulators and hosting Majorana-like bound states may exhibit unusual "fractional" ($4\pi$-periodic) ac Josephson effect. Accordingly, "fractional" Shapiro steps on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-08 Artem V. Galaktionov , Andrei D. Zaikin

Multiple systems hosting Andreev molecular states have been proposed and studied, consisting of closely spaced Josephson junctions modeled as ballistic channels. We show that replacing the ballistic channels in the weak link of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Mátyás Kocsis , Zoltán Scherübl , Gergő Fülöp , Péter Makk , Szabolcs Csonka

We report evidence of non-reciprocal dissipation-less transport in single ballistic InSb nanoflag Josephson junctions, owing to a strong spin-orbit coupling. Applying an in-plane magnetic field, we observe an inequality in supercurrent for…

Since the discovery of the Andreev reflection process at normal-metal/superconductor junctions and the corresponding Andreev bound states in superconductor/normal-metal/superconductor junctions, various multiterminal Josephson junctions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-29 Panch Ram , Detlef Beckmann , Romain Danneau , Wolfgang Belzig

The superconducting proximity effect in semiconductor nanowires has recently enabled the study of new superconducting architectures, such as gate-tunable superconducting qubits and multiterminal Josephson junctions. As opposed to their…

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

Recently, superconductors with higher-order topology have stimulated extensive attention and research interest. Higher-order topological superconductors exhibit unconventional bulk-boundary correspondence, thus allow exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Xiao-Ting Chen , Chun-Hui Liu , Dong-Hui Xu , Chui-Zhen Chen

Nonreciprocal supercurrents in Josephson junctions have recently emerged as a sensitive tool for investigating broken symmetries in superconducting quantum materials. Here, we report an even-odd Josephson diode effect (JDE) in…

We investigate Josephson currents in mesoscopic rings with a weak link which are in or near a topological superconducting phase. As a paradigmatic example, we consider the Kitaev model of a spinless p-wave superconductor in one dimension,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Falko Pientka , Alessandro Romito , Mathias Duckheim , Yuval Oreg , Felix von Oppen

The transport properties of a topological Josephson junction fabricated from a magnetically doped topological insulator (TI) were investigated. The conductance spectra of the Nb/Fe-Bi$_2$Te$_2$Se/Nb junction below 1 K showed an unusual…

Superconductor-topological insulator-superconductor Josephson junctions have been fabricated in order to study the width dependence of the critical current, normal state resistance and flux periodicity of the critical current modulation in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 C. G. Molenaar , D. P. Leusink , X. L. Wang , A. Brinkman

Topological Josephson junctions designed on the surface of a 3D-topological insulator (TI) harbor Majorana bound states (MBS's) among a continuum of conventional Andreev bound states. The distinct feature of these MBS's lies in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 K. Le Calvez , L. Veyrat , F. Gay , P. Plaindoux , C. Winkelmann , H. Courtois , B. Sacépé

Josephson junctions coupled through magnetic textures provide a controllable platform for odd-frequency superconductivity and Majorana physics. Within a tight-binding Green function framework, induced pair correlations and spectral…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-11 Ignacio Sardinero , Jorge Cayao , Rubén Seoane Souto , Pablo Burset

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

The emergence of Majorana bound states in finite length superconductor-semiconductor hybrid systems has been predicted to occur in the form of oscillatory energy levels with parity crossings around zero energy. Each zero-energy crossing is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Jorge Cayao

We study all possible Majorana modes in two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled ferromagnetic superconductor-normal state-superconductor (SNS) Josephson junctions and propose experiments to detect them. With the S region in a non-trivial…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Jacob Linder

Nodal topological superconductors characterized by $p_x$-wave pairing symmetry host flat-band Majorana bound states causing drastic anomalies in low-energy electromagnetic responses. Nevertheless, the study of flat-band Majorana bound…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-09 Daisuke Oshima , Satoshi Ikegaya , Andreas P. Schnyder , Yukio Tanaka

Two majorana Fermions (MFs) localized at the two ends of the topological superconducting wire can interfere with each other and form the well known $4\pi$ Josephson current. We reveal that the density of states (Dos) for the electron part…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-14 Jie Liu , Juntao Song , Qing-Feng Sun , X. C. Xie

The first evidence of anomalous Josephson effect is reported in mesoscopic superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) junctions forming a crosslike Andreev Interferometer in the absence of magnetic and spin-orbit interactions normally…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-02 D. Margineda , J. S. Claydon , F. Qejvanaj , C. Checkley

Majorana and trivial Andreev bound states are predicted to appear in superconductor-semiconductor hybrid systems, but their identification is still a challenging task. Here we consider superconducting junctions with Rashba spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-09 Eslam Ahmed , Shun Tamura , Yukio Tanaka , Jorge Cayao