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In the past two years, magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a uniquely versatile experimental platform that combines metallic, superconducting, magnetic and insulating phases in a single crystal. In particular the ability to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Folkert K. de Vries , Elias Portoles , Giulia Zheng , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Peter Rickhaus

We study Josephson junctions made of semiconducting nanowires with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, where superconducting correlations are induced by the proximity effect. In the presence of a suitably directed magnetic field, the system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 Konstantin N. Nesterov , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer

When a tunneling barrier between two superconductors is formed by a normal material that would be a superconductor in the absence of phase fluctuations, the resulting Josephson effect can undergo an enormous enhancement. We establish this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-11-06 D. Marchand , L. Covaci , M. Berciu , M. Franz

The $4\pi$ Josephson Effect is a distinguishing feature of a topological Josephson junction. However, stringent conditions make it hard to observe in experiments. Here we numerically study the transient transport properties in a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Dihao Sun , Jie Liu

We develop a fast Magnetic Josephson Junction (MJJ) - a superconducting ferromagnetic device for a scalable high-density cryogenic memory compatible in speed and fabrication with energy-efficient Single Flux Quantum (SFQ) circuits. We…

We develop a theory for the quantum circuit consisting of a superconducting loop interrupted by four Josephson junctions and pierced by a magnetic flux (either static or time-dependent). In addition to the similarity with the typical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-04 Yueyin Qiu , Wei Xiong , Xiao-Ling He , Tie-Fu Li , J. Q. You

We perform switching current measurements of planar Josephson junctions (JJs) coupled by a common superconducting electrode, with independent control over the two superconducting phase differences. We observe an anomalous phase shift in the…

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…

We apply a Gutzwiller-like variational technique to study Josephson conduction across a quantum dot with an odd number of electrons connected to two superconducting leads. We show that, for small values of the superconducting gap, Kondo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Campagnano , D. Giuliano , A. Tagliacozzo

Symmetry plays a critical role in determining various properties of a material. Semiconducting p-n junction diode exemplifies the engineered skew electronic response and is at the heart of contemporary electronic circuits. The…

In superconducting systems in which inversion and time-reversal symmetry are simultaneously broken the critical current for positive and negative current bias can be different. For superconducting systems formed by Josephson junctions (JJs)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-06 Joseph J. Cuozzo , Wei Pan , Javad Shabani , Enrico Rossi

Driven atomic Josephson junctions allow one to monitor phase-coherent dynamics with unprecedented control and flexibility of the system's physical conditions. While cold-atom manifestations of the Josephson effect have been extensively…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-28 Kevin T. Geier , Giampiero Marchegiani , Vijay Pal Singh , Juan Polo , Luigi Amico

The nonlinear inductance of the Josephson junction has enabled the development of a wide range of continuous-variable amplifiers and qubit-based devices with unprecedented sensitivity. We present an alternative use of the Josephson junction…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-12 Andrew K. Yi , Pamela Stark , Chelsea Bartram

We study theoretically the large variations of the supercurrent through a normal dot that are induced by a small quasiparticle injection current from normal leads connected to the dot. We find that the supercurrent decomposes into a subgap…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-07 Sarath Sankar , Julia S. Meyer , Manuel Houzet

In this study, we explore the Josephson current-phase relation within a planar diffuse tunneling superconducting multilayer junction subjected to a parallel magnetic field. Our investigation involves computing the supercurrent associated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-19 A. S. Osin , Alex Levchenko , Maxim Khodas

The stationary Josephson effect in a system of ballistic graphene is studied in the framework of quasiclassical Green's function theory. Reflecting the ultimate two-dimensionality of graphene, a Josephson junction involving a graphene sheet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-24 Yositake Takane , Ken-Ichiro Imura

Josephson junctions (JJs), devices consisting of two superconductors separated by a barrier, are of great technological importance, being a cornerstone of quantum information processing. Classical understanding of…

An array of resistively and capacitively shunted Josephson junctions with nonsinusoidal current-phase relation is considered for modelling the transition in high-T$_c$ superconductors. The emergence of higher harmonics, besides the simple…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-01-04 A. Carbone , M. Gilli , P. Mazzetti , L. Ponta

We study the Josephson effect in a superconductor--ferromagnet--superconductor (SFS) junction with ferromagnetic domains of non-collinear magnetization. As a model for our study we consider a diffusive junction with two ferromagnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Crouzy , S. Tollis , D. A. Ivanov

Superconducting qubits are solid state electrical circuits fabricated using techniques borrowed from conventional integrated circuits. They are based on the Josephson tunnel junction, the only non-dissipative, strongly non-linear circuit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. H. Devoret , A. Wallraff , J. M. Martinis