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We investigate the Josephson current in a Fano-Josephson junction formed by the direct coupling between two topological superconducting wires and their indirect coupling via a quantum dot. It is found that when two Majorana zero modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-04 Gao Zhen , Shu-Feng Zhang , Ying Zhao , Guangyu Yi , Wei-Jiang Gong

We investigate the phase dynamics of a long Josephson junction (LJJ) with two-gap superconductors. In this junction, two channels for tunneling between the adjacent superconductor (S) layers as well as one interband channel within each S…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-04 Ju H. Kim , Bal-Ram Ghimire , Hao-Yu Tsai

Superconducting diodes are a recently-discovered quantum analogueue of classical diodes. The superconducting diode effect relies on the breaking of both time-reversal and inversion symmetry. As a result, the critical current of a…

The Josephson effect is a macroscopic quantum tunneling phenomenon in a system with superfluid property, when it is split into two parts by a barrier. Here, we examine the Josephson effect in a driven-dissipative supersolid realized by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-01-28 Jieli Qin , Shijie Li , Yijia Tu , Maokun Gu , Lin Guan , Weimin Xu , Lu Zhou

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

We investigate Josephson junctions on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator in planar, step, and edge geometries. The elliptical nature of the Dirac cone representing the side surface states of the topological insulator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-11 Jennifer Nussbaum , Thomas L. Schmidt , Christoph Bruder , Rakesh P. Tiwari

We show that the two-band nature of noncentrosymmetric superconductors leads naturally to an anomalous Josephson current appearing at zero phase difference in a clean noncentrosymmetric superconductor/ferromagnet/noncentrosymmetric…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-08 Huan Zhang , Jun Wang , Jun-Feng Liu

We investigate the Josephson effect in TNT and NTN junctions, consisting of topological (T) and normal (N) phases of semiconductor-superconductor 1D heterostructures in the presence of a Zeeman field. A key feature of our setup is that, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-10 Panagiotis Kotetes , Alexander Shnirman , Gerd Schön

We calculate the dc supercurrent through a Josephson tunnel junction consisting of an antiferromagnetic (AF) interlayer sandwiched between two d-wave superconductors (d). Such d/AF/d junctions exhibit a rich dependence of the Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Brian M. Andersen , Yu. S. Barash , S. Graser , P. J. Hirschfeld

In this paper we extend our earlier analysis of the novel Josephson effect in triplet superconductor--ferromagnet--triplet superconductor (TFT) junctions [B. Kastening \emph{et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf{96}}, 047009 (2006)]. In our more…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-01-26 P. M. R. Brydon , Boris Kastening , Dirk K. Morr , Dirk Manske

The superconducting diode effect is an asymmetry in the critical current with respect to the supercurrent polarity. One impetus driving recent interest in the effect is its dependence on intrinsic or microscopic symmetry breaking…

We present a theoretical study of the effect of spin-filtering on the Josephson and dissipative quasiparticle currents in a superconducting tunnel junction. By combining the quasiclassical Green's functions and the tunneling Hamiltonian…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-05 F. S. Bergeret , A. Verso , A. F. Volkov

Spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional systems is usually characterized by Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (SOC) linear in the wave vector. However, there is a growing class of materials which instead support dominant SOC cubic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Mohammad Alidoust , Chenghao Shen , Igor Zutic

In analogy to conventional semiconductor diodes, the Josephson diode exhibits superconducting properties that are asymmetric in applied bias. The effect has been investigated in number of systems recently, and requires a combination of…

We predict a new dynamic state in current-carrying superconductors with multicomponent order parameter. If the current density J exceeds a critical value J_t, an interband breakdown caused by charge imbalance of nonequilibrium…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Gurevich , V. M. Vinokur

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

The dc Josephson effect provides a powerful phase-sensitive tool for investigating superfluid order parameters. We report on the observation of dc Josephson supercurrents in strongly interacting fermionic superfluids across a tunnelling…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-11-10 W. J. Kwon , G. Del Pace , R. Panza , M. Inguscio , W. Zwerger , M. Zaccanti , F. Scazza , G. Roati

Multi-gap superconductors can exhibit qualitatively new phenomena due to existence of multiple order parameters. Repulsive electronic interactions may give rise to a phase difference of $\pi$ between the phases of the order parameters.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 D. F. Agterberg , Eugene Demler , B. Janko

The superconducting diode effect (SDE) has recently been observed in various systems, sparking interest in novel superconducting devices and offering a new platform to probe intrinsic material properties. Josephson junctions with strong…

Josephson tunnel junctions are essential elements of superconducting quantum circuits. The operability of these circuits presumes a $2\pi$-periodic sinusoidal potential of a tunnel junction, but higher-order corrections to this Josephson…