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Establishment of phase-coherence and a non-dissipative (super)current between two weakly coupled superconductors, known as the Josephson effect, plays a foundational role in basic physics and applications to metrology, precision sensing,…

We propose a heat valve based on the interplay between thermal transport and proximity-induced exchange splitting in Josephson tunnel junctions. We demonstrate that the junction heat conductance strongly depends on the relative alignment of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-09 F. Giazotto , F. S. Bergeret

We demonstrate that thermoelectric signal as well as dc Josephson current may be severely enhanced in multi-terminal superconducting hybrid nanostructures exposed to a temperature gradient. At temperatures $T$ strongly exceeding the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Pavel E. Dolgirev , Andrei D. Zaikin

We study the quantum phase transition properties of a three-dimensional periodic array of Josephson junctions with charging energy that includes both the self and mutual junction capacitances. We use the phase fluctuation algebra between…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 T. K. Kopec , Jorge V. Jose

The Josephson effect represents perhaps the prototype of macroscopic phase coherence and is at the basis of the most widespread interferometer, i.e., the superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). Yet, in analogy to electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-21 F. Giazotto , M. J. Martinez-Perez

We report an experimental study on the tuning of supercurrent in a ballistic graphene-based Josephson junction by applying a control voltage to a transverse normal channel. In this four-terminal geometry, the control voltage changes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 P. Pandey , D. Beckmann , R. Danneau

We study switching current statistics in different moderately damped Josephson junctions: a paradoxical collapse of the thermal activation with increasing temperature is reported and explained by interplay of two conflicting consequences of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-16 V. M. Krasnov , T. Bauch , S. Intiso , E. Hürfeld , T. Akazaki , H. Takayanagi , P. Delsing

We study the thermodynamic properties of topological Josephson junctions using a quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator-based junction as an example. In particular, we propose that phase-dependent measurements of the heat capacity offer an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 Benedikt Scharf , Alessandro Braggio , Elia Strambini , Francesco Giazotto , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

The phenomenon of non-reciprocal critical current in a Josephson device, termed the Josephson diode effect, has garnered much recent interest. Realization of the diode effect requires inversion symmetry breaking, typically obtained by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Mohit Gupta , Gino V. Graziano , Mihir Pendharkar , Jason T. Dong , Connor P. Dempsey , Chris Palmstrøm , Vlad S. Pribiag

We study the response of high-critical current proximity Josephson junctions to a microwave excitation. Electron over-heating in such devices is known to create hysteretic dc voltage-current characteristics. Here we demonstrate that it also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Alessandro De Cecco , Kévin Le Calvez , Benjamin Sacépé , Clemens Winkelmann , Hervé Courtois

Josephson junction arrays are ideal model systems where a variety of phenomena, phase transitions, frustration effects, vortex dynamics, chaos, to mention a few of them, can be studied in a controlled way. In this review we focus on the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Rosario Fazio , Herre van der Zant

We predict the thermal counterpart of the anomalous Josephson effect in superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor junctions with non-coplanar magnetic texture. The heat current through the junction is shown to have the phase-sensitive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-22 M. A. Silaev

We discuss how phase coherence manifests in the heat transport through superconducting single and multichannel Josephson junctions in time dependent situations. We consider the heat current driven through the junction by a temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-02 P. Virtanen , F. Giazotto

Graphene-based Josephson junctions played an important role in various quantum devices from their inception. Magnetic tunnel junctions or vertical devices were also made out of graphene by exposing the graphene layer to localised pattern of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-25 Partha Sarathi Banerjee , Rahul Marathe , Sankalpa Ghosh

Step junctions are often present in layered materials, i.e. where single-layer regions meet multi-layer regions, yet their effect on thermal transport is not understood to date. Here, we measure heat flow across graphene junctions (GJs)…

We report on the study of the phase dynamics of high critical temperature superconductor Josephson junctions. We realized YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-x}$ (YBCO) grain boundary (GB) biepitaxial junctions in the submicron scale, using low loss…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-07-02 D. Stornaiuolo , G. Rotoli , D. Massarotti , F. Carillo , L. Longobardi , F. Beltram , F. Tafuri

Existence of distinctive correlation between the thermal conductance and the Josephson current across a 1-D topological Josephson junction (T-JJ) is established and an expression connecting the two is derived in the short junction limit. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Aabir Mukhopadhyay , Sourin Das

We explore the effect of noise on the ballistic graphene-based small Josephson junctions in the framework of the resistively and capacitively shunted model. We use the non-sinusoidal current-phase relation specific for graphene layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-07 Claudio Guarcello , Davide Valenti , Bernardo Spagnolo , Vincenzo Pierro , Giovanni Filatrella

We discuss heat transport in thermally-biased long Josephson tunnel junctions in the presence of an in-plane magnetic field. In full analogy with the Josephson critical current, the phase-dependent component of the heat current through the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-06 Claudio Guarcello , Francesco Giazotto , Paolo Solinas

Multiterminal Josephson junctions are a promising platform to host synthetic topological phases of matter and Floquet states. However, the energy scales governing topological protection in these devices are on the order of the spacing…