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Motivated by recent experiments (Subero et. al. Nature Comm. $\bf{14}$, 7924 (2023)) we analyze photonic heat transport through a Josephson junction in a dissipative environment. For this purpose we derive general expressions for the heat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 A. Levy Yeyati , D. Subero , J. Pekola , R. Sánchez

Josephson junctions (JJs) are the key element of many devices operating at cryogenic temperatures. Development of time-efficient wafer-scale JJ characterization for process optimization and control of JJ fabrication is essential. Such…

We present tunnel spectroscopy experiments on the proximity effect in lateral superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) Josephson junctions. Our weak link is embedded into a superconducting (S) ring allowing phase biasing of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Meschke , J. T. Peltonen , J. P. Pekola , F. Giazotto

We study the influence of superconducting correlations on the electronic specific heat in a diffusive superconductor-normal metal-superconductor Josephson junction. We present a description of this system in the framework of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-15 H. Rabani , F. Taddei , O. Bourgeois , R. Fazio , F. 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

The Josephson rectification effect, where the resistance is finite in one direction while zero in the other, has been recently realized experimentally. The resulting Josephson diode has many potential applications on superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-14 Bo Lu , Satoshi Ikegaya , Pablo Burset , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

We present an exhaustive theoretical analysis of charge and thermoelectric transport in a normal metal-ferromagnetic insulator-superconductor (NFIS) junction, and explore the possibility of its use as a sensitive thermometer. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 F. Giazotto , P. Solinas , A. Braggio , F. S. Bergeret

We construct a holographic model for the superconductor-insulator-superconductor (SIS) Josephson junction at zero temperature by considering a complex scalar field coupled with a Maxwell field in the four-dimensional anti-de Sitter soliton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-25 Yong-Qiang Wang , Yu-Xiao Liu , Rong-Gen Cai , Shingo Takeuchi , Hai-Qing Zhang

Using the functional integral method, we construct a theory of heterotic SIS Josephson junctions between single- and two-gap superconductors. The theory predicts the presence of in-phase and out-of-phase collective oscillation modes of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-06-14 Yukihiro Ota , Masahiko Machida , Tomio Koyama , Hideki Matsumoto

We investigate Josephson and proximity effects on the surface of a topological insulator on which superconductors and a ferromagnet are deposited. The superconducting regions are described by the conventional BCS Hamiltonian, rather than…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-05 Takehito Yokoyama

A Josephson junction (JJ) has been under intensive study ever since 1960's. Yet even in the present era of building quantum information processing devices based on many JJs, open questions regarding a single junction remain unsolved, such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Bayan Karimi , Gorm Ole Steffensen , Andrew P. Higginbotham , Charles M. Marcus , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Jukka P. Pekola

Josephson junctions form the essential non-linearity for almost all superconducting qubits. The junction is formed when two superconducting electrodes come within $\sim$1 nm of each other. Although the capacitance of these electrodes is a…

Two superconductors coupled by a weak link support an equilibrium Josephson electrical current which depends on the phase difference $\varphi$ between the superconducting condensates [1]. Yet, when a temperature gradient is imposed across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 Antonio Fornieri , Giuliano Timossi , Pauli Virtanen , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto

We theoretically investigate the phase-dependent heat transport of a temperature-biased granular Josephson junction in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. We illustrate the influence of geometry of the junction on the thermal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-13 Elaheh Afsaneha , Heshmatolah Yavari

Niobium offers the benefit of increased operating temperatures and frequencies for Josephson junctions, which are the core component of superconducting devices. However existing niobium processes are limited by more complicated fabrication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Alexander Anferov , Kan-Heng Lee , Fang Zhao , Jonathan Simon , David I. Schuster

We report the electrical transport in vertical Josephson tunnel junctions (area 400 $\mu m$$^2$) using GdBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_7$$_{-\delta}$ electrodes and SrTiO$_3$ as an insulating barrier (with thicknesses between 1 nm and 4 nm). The results…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-12-19 H. Navarro , M. Sirena , N. Haberkorn

We propose a single photon detector based on a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) with superconductor-normal metal-superconductor Josephson weak links. One of the two Josephson junctions is connected to an antenna, and is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-22 P. Solinas , F. Giazotto , G. P. Pepe

In this article we present an experimental study of microwave resonators made out of Josephson junctions. The junctions are embedded in a transmission line geometry so that they increase the inductance per length for the line. By comparing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Antti Ranni , Harald Havir , Subhomoy Haldar , Ville F. Maisi

We report anomalous enhancement of the critical current at low temperatures in gate-tunable Josephson junctions made from topological insulator BiSbTeSe$_2$ nanoribbons with superconducting Nb electrodes. In contrast to conventional…

We present theory of dc Josephson effect in contacts between Fe-based and spin-singlet $s$-wave superconductors. The method is based on the calculation of temperature Green's function in the junction within the tight-binding model. We…