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By coupling a semiconductor-based planar Josephson junction to a superconducting resonator, we investigate the Andreev bound states in the junction using dispersive readout techniques. Using electrostatic gating to create a narrow…

Andreev bound states trapped in a multi-terminal Josephson junction (JJ) can be assigned a synthetic band topology owing to their periodic dependence on the Josephson phase bias. We demonstrate that the BdG symmetry adds a twist to this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Aabir Mukhopadhyay , Udit Khanna , Sourin Das

The Josephson current flowing in a junction between two superconductors is a striking manifestation of macroscopic quantum coherence, with applications in metrology and quantum information. This equilibrium current is related with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Julia S. Meyer , Manuel Houzet

We present the first experimental results on a device with more than two superconducting qubits. The circuit consists of four three-junction flux qubits, with simultaneous ferro- and antiferromagnetic coupling implemented using shared…

A Josephson junction, formed between two phase-biased superconductors and a normal metal, hosts a discrete spectrum of Andreev bound states (ABS). In this paper, we develop a theory for long ballistic Andreev interferometers in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Régis Mélin , Asmaul Smitha Rashid , Morteza Kayyalha

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

We develop a general perturbative framework based on a superconducting atomic limit for the description of Andreev bound states (ABS) in interacting quantum dots connected to superconducting leads. A local effective Hamiltonian for dressed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Tobias Meng , Pascal Simon , Serge Florens

We study the Josephson effect in the multiterminal junction of topological superconductors. We use the symmetry-constrained scattering matrix approach to derive band dispersions of emergent sub-gap Andreev bound states in a multidimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-03 Hong-Yi Xie , Alex Levchenko

We develop a microscopic theory of ac Josephson effect in superconducting junctions described by an arbitrary scattering matrix that may include magnetic effects. In the limit of constant in time bias voltage $V$ applied to the junction we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-22 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

A theory is offered for the ballistic 4-terminal Josephson junction. The studied system consists of a mesoscopic two-dimensional normal rectangular layer which is attached in each side to the bulk superconducting banks (terminals). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Malek Zareyan , A. N. Omelyanchouk

We propose a setup that integrates a quantum point contact (QPC) and a Josephson junction on a quantum spin Hall sample, experimentally realizable in InAs/GaSb quantum wells. The confinement due to both the QPC and the superconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Jian Li , Wei Pan , B. Andrei Bernevig , Roman M. Lutchyn

We describe the proximity effect in a short disordered metallic junction between three superconducting leads. Andreev bound states in the multi-terminal junction may cross the Fermi level. We reveal that for a quasi-continuous metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-13 C. Padurariu , T. Jonckheere , J. Rech , R. Mélin , D. Feinberg , T. Martin , Yu. V. Nazarov

Bijunctions are three-terminal Josephson junctions where three superconductors are connected by a single weak link made of a metallic region or of quantum dots. Biasing two of the superconductors with commensurate voltages yields Andreev…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 R. Mélin , D. Feinberg , H. Courtois , C. Padurariu , A. Pfeffer , J. E. Duvauchelle , F. Lefloch , T. Jonckheere , J. Rech , T. Martin , B. Douçot

Cooper quartets represent exotic fermion aggregates describing correlated matter at the basis of charge-$4e$ superconductivity and offer a platform for studying four-body interactions, of interest for topologically protected quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Luca Chirolli , Alessandro Braggio , Francesco Giazotto

The quasicharge superconducting qubit realizes the dual of the transmon and shows strong robustness to flux and charge fluctuations thanks to a very large inductance closed on a Josephson junction. At the same time, a weak anharmonicity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Luca Chirolli , Matteo Carrega , Francesco Giazotto

Multiterminal Josephson junctions (MTJJs), devices in which a normal metal is in contact with three or more superconducting leads, have been proposed as artificial analogs of topological crystals. The topological nature of MTJJs manifests…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Maxwell Wisne , Yanpei Deng , Markus Lilja , Pertti Hakonen , Venkat Chandrasekhar

In this work we present a detailed theoretical analysis for the spectral properties of Andreev bound states in the multiterminal Josephson junctions by employing a symmetry-constrained scattering matrix approach. We find that in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-13 Hong-Yi Xie , Jaglul Hasan , Alex Levchenko

The production of entangled pairs of electrons in ferromagnet-superconductor-ferromagnet or normal metal-superconductor-normal metal three-terminal structures has aroused considerable interest in the last twenty years. In these studies, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-11 Régis Mélin

Remarkably rich physics is involved in the behavior of hybrid Josephson junctions, connecting high-Tc and low-Tc superconductors. This relates in particular to the different order parameter symmetries underlying the formation of the…

Multiterminal Josephson junctions constitute engineered topological systems in arbitrary synthetic dimensions defined by the superconducting phases. Microwave spectroscopy enables the measurement of the quantum geometric tensor, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-09 Raffael L. Klees , Juan Carlos Cuevas , Wolfgang Belzig , Gianluca Rastelli