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Quasiperiodicity has recently been proposed to enhance superconductivity and its proximity effect. At the same time, there has been significant experimental progress in the fabrication of quasiperiodic structures, also in reduced…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-27 Anna Sandberg , Oladunjoye A. Awoga , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Patric Holmvall

We study a phase-tunable four-terminal Josephson junction formed in an InSbAs two-dimensional electron gas proximitized by aluminum. By embedding the two pairs of junction terminals in asymmetric DC SQUIDs we can control the superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Christian G. Prosko , Wietze D. Huisman , Ivan Kulesh , Di Xiao , Candice Thomas , Michael J. Manfra , Srijit Goswami

Setting up strong Josephson coupling in van der Waals materials in close proximity to superconductors offers several opportunities both to inspect fundamental physics and to develop novel cryogenic quantum technologies. Here we show…

Josephson junctions enable dissipation-less electrical current through metals and insulators below a critical current. Despite being central to quantum technology based on superconducting quantum bits and fundamental research into…

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

A singularity at the Josephson frequency in the noise spectral density of a disordered normal metal -- superconductor junction is predicted for bias voltages below the superconducting gap. The non-stationary Aharonov-Bohm effect, recently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gordey B. Lesovik , Thierry Martin , Julien Torres

The proximity effect is a central feature of superconducting junctions as it underlies many important applications in devices and can be exploited in the design of new systems with novel quantum functionality. Recently, exotic proximity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-06-11 Jungdae Kim , Victor Chua , Gregory A. Fiete , Hyoungdo Nam , A. H. MacDonald , Chih-Kang Shih

We theoretically study the Josephson effect in a superconductor/normal metal/superconductor junction based on Kekul\'e patterned graphene. For the Kekul\'e-O patterned junctions, a Fermi momentum-splitting Andreev reflection at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-28 W. Zeng , R. Shen

The interplay of superconductivity, magnetic fields, and spin-orbit interaction lies at the heart of topological superconductivity. Remarkably, the recent experimental discovery of $\varphi_{0}$ Josephson junctions by Szombati et al., Nat.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Constantin Schrade , Silas Hoffman , Daniel Loss

We study the superconducting proximity effect on the helical edge states of time-reversal-symmetric fractional topological insulators(FTI). The Cooper pairing of electrons results in many-particle condensation of the fractionalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-21 Meng Cheng

We study theoretically the ac Josephson effect in superconducting planar d-wave junctions. The insulating barrier assumed to be present between the two superconductors may have arbitrary strength. Many properties of this system depend on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Magnus Hurd , Tomas Lofwander , Goran Johansson , Goran Wendin

The magnetic field effect in the Josephson tunneling between two d-wave superconductors are investigated. When the crystal orientation of one (or each) superconductor relative to the interface normal is such that midgap states exist at the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 X. -Z. Yan , C. -R. Hu

We propose a novel type of magnetic scanning probe sensor, based on a single planar Josephson junction with a magnetic barrier. The planar geometry together with high magnetic permeability of the barrier helps to focus flux in the junction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-06 T. Golod , O. M. Kapran , V. M. Krasnov

High density superconductor-semiconductor-superconductor junctions have a small induced superconducting gap due to the quasiparticle trajectories with a large momentum parallel to the junction having a very long flight time. Because a large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Tom Laeven , Bas Nijholt , Michael Wimmer , Anton R. Akhmerov

The Josephson diode effect (JDE) is a novel phenomenon in which a superconducting junction exhibits asymmetric Josephson currents with respect to the superconducting phase difference. In this study, we theoretically investigate how the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-29 Shin-ichi Hikino

The Josephson effect is a manifestation of the macroscopic phase coherence of superconductors and superfluids. We propose that with ultracold Fermi gases one can realise a spin-asymmetric Josephson effect in which the two spin components of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-12-10 M. O. J. Heikkinen , F. Massel , J. Kajala , M. J. Leskinen , G. -S. Paraoanu , P. Torma

We study a diffusive superconductor--ferromagnet--superconductor (SFS) junction with in-plane ferromagnetic domains. Close to the superconducting transition temperature, we describe the proximity effect in the junction with the linearized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-02 B. Crouzy , S. Tollis , D. A. Ivanov

Superconducting devices with broken time-reversal and spatial-inversion symmetries can exhibit novel superconducting phenomena. The observation of superconducting diode effects, which is applicable for dissipationless rectification,…

We study the Josephson effect and pairing correlations in SFFS junctions that consist of conventional superconductors (S) connected through two metallic monodomain ferromagnets (F) with transparent and spin inactive interfaces. We solve the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-07-14 Zorica Popović , Zoran Radović

We study the proximity effect in SF'(AF)F'S and SF'(F)F'S planar junctions, where S is a clean conventional (s-wave) superconductor, while F' and middle layers are clean or moderately diffusive ferromagnets. Middle layers consist of two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-17 Luka Trifunovic , Zoran Radovic