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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

We investigate superconducting quantum interference devices consisting of two highly transmissive Josephson junctions coupled by a superconducting loop, all defined in an epitaxial InAs/Al heterostructure. A novel device design allows for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 F. Nichele , E. Portolés , A. Fornieri , A. M. Whiticar , A. C. C. Drachmann , T. Wang , G. C. Gardner , C. Thomas , A. T. Hatke , M. J. Manfra , C. M. Marcus

We present the design of a superconducting qubit that has circulating currents of opposite sign as its two states. The circuit consists of three nano-scale aluminum Josephson junctions connected in a superconducting loop and controlled by…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 T. P. Orlando , J. E. Mooji , Lin Tian , Caspar H. van der Wal , L. Levitov , Seth Lloyd , J. J. Mazo

We review experiments on small-capacitance Josephson junctions. When the Josephson junction is fabricated in the configuration of dc superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), the Josephson coupling can be tuned IN SITU with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michio Watanabe , David B. Haviland

The promise of single Cooper pair quantum circuits based on tunnel junctions for metrology and quantum information applications is severely limited by the influence of "offset" charges - random, slowly drifting microscopic charges inherent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Vladimir E. Manucharyan , Jens Koch , Leonid Glazman , Michel Devoret

Single molecule transistors (SMTs) are currently attracting enormous attention as possible quantum information processing devices. An intrinsic limitation to the prospects of these however is associated to the presence of a small number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. B. Winkelmann , N. Roch , W. Wernsdorfer , V. Bouchiat , F. Balestro

Real-space superconducting properties are increasingly important to characterize low-dimensional, layered, and nanostructured materials. Here, we present a method to extract the real-space superconducting order parameter from the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-25 Jonas Bekaert , Mikhail Petrov , Milorad V. Milošević

In the quasi-twodimensional (Q2D) electron gas of an InAs channel between an AlSb substrate and superconducting Niobium layers the proximity effect induces a pair potential so that a Q2D mesoscopic superconducting-normal-superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Arne Jacobs , Reiner Kümmel , Hartmut Plehn

Josephson junctions (JJ) are essential for superconducting quantum technologies and searches of self-conjugate quasiparticles, pivotal for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Measuring the current-phase relation (CPR) in JJ based on…

The Josephson diode (JD) is a non-reciprocal circuit element that supports a larger critical current in one direction compared to the other. This effect has gained a growing interest because of promising applications in superconducting…

We study junctions between superconductors mediated by the edge states of a quantum spin Hall insulator. We show that such junctions exhibit a fractional Josephson effect, in which the current phase relation has a 4\pi, rather than a 2\pi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Liang Fu , C. L. Kane

There has been a growing interest in hybrid quantum Hall (QH) superconductor devices, driven by the prospect to realize exotic ground states and excitations with non-abelian exchange statistics. While the existing experiments clearly…

Josephson junctions translate quantum phase coherence into an electrical response and underpin superconducting sensors and quantum circuits. In conventional junctions, the barrier acts primarily as a passive weak link, however, when the…

The quantum Hall effect is a remarkable manifestation of quantized transport in a two-dimensional electron gas. Given its technological relevance, it is important to understand its development in realistic nanoscale devices. In this work we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-08 I. J. Vera-Marun , P. J. Zomer , A. Veligura , M. H. D. Guimarães , L. Visser , N. Tombros , H. J. van Elferen , U. Zeitler , B. J. van Wees

We report on realization and quantum transport study of a twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) Josephson junction device. High-quality tBLG employed in the device fabrication is obtained via chemical vapour deposition and the device is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-06 Dingran Rui , Luzhao Sun , N. Kang , Hailin Peng , Zhongfan Liu , H. Q. Xu

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

Superconductivity can be induced in a normal material via the leakage of superconducting pairs of charge carriers from an adjacent superconductor. This so-called proximity effect is markedly influenced by graphene unique electronic…

Topological superconductors give rise to unconventional superconductivity, which is mainly characterized by the symmetry of the superconducting pairing amplitude. However, since the symmetry of the superconducting pairing amplitude is not…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-09 C. Fleckenstein , N. Traverso Ziani , B. Trauzettel

With a large portfolio of elemental quantum components, superconducting quantum circuits have contributed to dramatic advances in microwave quantum optics. Of these elements, quantum-limited parametric amplifiers have proven to be essential…

Proximity-induced superconductivity in a ferromagnet can induce Cooper pairs with a finite center-of-mass momentum. The resultant spatially modulated superconducting order parameter is able to stabilize Josephson junctions (JJs) with pi…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-27 Kaifei Kang , Helmuth Berger , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Laszlo Forro , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak