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Superconducting flux qubits are a promising candidate for solid-state quantum computation. One of the reasons is that implementing a controlled coupling between the qubits appears to be relatively easy, if one uses tunable Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 M. J. Storcz , F. K. Wilhelm

Conventional superconductor/insulator/superconductor (SIS) Josephson junctions, devices where two superconductors are separated by a tunnel barrier are technologically important as elements in quantum circuits, particularly with their key…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-19 Venkat Chandrasekhar

We report measurements of the current-phase relation of two voltage-controlled semiconductor-superconductor hybrid Josephson junctions (JJs) in series. The two hybrid junctions behave similar to a single-mode JJ with effective transparency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 L. Banszerus , W. Marshall , C. W. Andersson , T. Lindemann , M. J. Manfra , C. M. Marcus , S. Vaitiekėnas

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…

Gate-tunable Josephson junctions (JJs) are the backbone of superconducting classical and quantum computation. Typically, these systems exploit low charge concentration materials, and present technological diffculties limiting their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Federico Paolucci , Francesco Vischi , Giorgio De Simoni , Claudio Guarcello , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto

We investigate the direction-dependent switching current in a flux-tunable four-terminal Josephson junction defined in an InAs/Al two-dimensional heterostructure. The device exhibits the Josephson diode effect, with switching currents that…

Topological superconductors can support localized Majorana states at their boundaries. These quasi-particle excitations have non-Abelian statistics that can be used to encode and manipulate quantum information in a topologically protected…

We investigate the Josephson effect in TNT and NTN junctions, consisting of topological (T) and normal (N) phases of semiconductor-superconductor 1D heterostructures in the presence of a Zeeman field. A key feature of our setup is that, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-10 Panagiotis Kotetes , Alexander Shnirman , Gerd Schön

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 investigate the Josephson effect in one triple-terminal junction with embedded parallel-coupled double quantum dots. It is found that the inter-superconductor supercurrent has opportunities to oscillate in $4\pi$ period, with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Guang-Yu Yi , Xiao-Qi Wang , Zhen Gao , Hai-Na Wu , Wei-Jiang Gong

Recently discovered phase of collinear magnet called, altermagnet breaks time reversal symmetry (TRS), exhibits momentum-dependent spin-splitting of band structure with zero net magnetization. In this work, we theoretically investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Lovy Sharma , Manisha Thakurathi

Superconducting digital computing systems, primarily involving Josephson junctions are actively being pursued as high performance and low energy dissipating alternatives to CMOS-based technologies for petascale and exascale computers,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Uday S. Goteti , Michael C. Hamilton

We present a theoretical study of proximitized planar Josephson junctions (JJs) with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) subject to an in-plane magnetic field and demonstrate that the magneto-current-phase relation (magneto-CPR) provides a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-10 B. Pekerten , A. Chilampankunnel Prasannan , A. Matos-Abiague

We study spin-orbital coupling effect on the Josephson current through a superconductor (SC) heterojunction, consisting of two s-wave superconductors and a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) layer between them. The Rashba-type (RSOC)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. H. Yang , Y. H. Yang , J. Wang , K. S. Chan

A planar Josephson junction is a versatile platform to realize topological superconductivity over a large parameter space and host Majorana bound states. With a change in Zeeman field, this system undergoes a transition from trivial to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Barış Pekerten , David Brandão , Bailey Bussiere , David Monroe , Tong Zhou , Jong E. Han , Javad Shabani , Alex Matos-Abiague , Igor Žutić

We study the Josephson current, I_J, in a junction consisting of two s-wave superconductors that are separated by a ferromagnetic barrier possessing a magnetic and non-magnetic scattering potential, g and Z, respectively. We discuss the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-05-12 Boris Kastening , Dirk K. Morr , Lambert Alff , Karl Bennemann

Coherent tunneling processes of multiple Cooper pairs across a Josephson junction give rise to higher harmonics in the current phase relation. In this work, we propose and study Josephson junctions based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Andrea Maiani , Karsten Flensberg , Martin Leijnse , Constantin Schrade , Saulius Vaitiekėnas , Rubén Seoane Souto

We investigate the Josephson transport properties in a Josephson junction consisting of a conventional $s$-wave superconductor coupled to a multi-orbital noncentrosymmetric superconductor marked by an orbitally driven inversion asymmetry…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-21 Yuri Fukaya , Yada Keiji , Yukio Tanaka , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco

Low-capacitance Josephson junctions, where Cooper pairs tunnel coherently while Coulomb blockade effects allow the control of the total charge, provide physical realizations of quantum bits (qubits), with logical states differing by one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuriy Makhlin , Gerd Schoen , Alexander Shnirman

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