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We study a multi-terminal Josephson junction based on an interacting quantum dot coupled to $n$ superconducting BCS leads. Using an Anderson type model of a local level with an arbitrary onsite Coulomb repulsion, we uncover its surprising…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Peter Zalom , Martin Žonda , T. Novotný

Coulomb drag refers to the phenomenon that a charge current in one electronic circuit induces a responsive current in a neighboring circuit solely through Coulomb interactions. For conventional interactions between fermionic particles such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-11 Ran Tao , Lin Li , Hong-Yi Xie , Xiaodong Fan , Linhai Guo , Lijun Zhu , Yuedong Yan , Zhenyu Zhang , Changgan Zeng

The simultaneous breaking of time-reversal and inversion symmetry can lead to peculiar effects in Josephson junctions, such as the anomalous Josephson effect or supercurrent rectification, which is a dissipationless analog of the diode…

Asymmetric two-junction SQUIDs with different current-phase relations in the two Josephson junctions, involving higher Josephson harmonics, demonstrate a flux-tunable Josephson diode effect (asymmetry between currents flowing in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-27 G. S. Seleznev , Ya. V. Fominov

We consider a Hamiltonian model for a quantum dot which is placed between two superconducting leads with a constant bias imposed between these leads. Using the non-equilibrium Keldysh technique, we focus on the subgap current, where it is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-02 Thibaut Jonckheere , Alex Zazunov , K. Bayandin , Vitaly Shumeiko , Thierry Martin

Supercurrent transport is experimentally studied in a Josephson junction hosting a double quantum dot (DQD) with tunable symmetries. The QDs are parallel-coupled to two superconducting contacts and can be tuned between strong inter-dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Rousan Debbarma , Markus Aspegren , Florinda Viñas Boström , Sebastian Lehmann , Kimberly Dick , Claes Thelander

We investigate the supercurrent through a quantum dot for the whole range of couplings using the numerical renormalization group method. We find that the Josephson current switches abruptly from a $\pi$- to a 0-phase as the coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mahn-Soo Choi , Minchul Lee , Kicheon Kang , W. Belzig

It is well established that superconductivity is based on a coherent quantum state of Cooper pairs with charge 2e, and this is equally true of the Josephson effect. In contrast, Kadin recently presented an alternative real-space model of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-08-02 Alan M. Kadin

We study the effect of a magnetic field on the current-phase relation of a topological Josephson junction formed by connecting two superconductors through the helical edge states of a quantum spin-Hall insulator. We predict that the Zeeman…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-27 Fabrizio Dolcini , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer

We propose a realization of the superconducting diode effect in flux biased superconducting circuits of Josephson junctions. So far the observation of the superconducting diode effect has been limited to rather exotic material platforms. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-07 Rafael Haenel , Oguzhan Can

We calculate the equilibrium Josephson current through a disordered interacting quantum dot described by a Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model fully contacted by two BCS superconductors, such that all modes of the dot contribute to the coupling, which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-25 Luca Dell'Anna

Chiral materials lacking mirror symmetry can exhibit unconventional spin-orbit fields, including fully momentum-aligned radial Rashba fields as seen in twisted van der Waals homobilayers. We theoretically study Cooper-pair transfer in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-21 Andreas Costa , Osamu Kanehira , Hiroaki Matsueda , Jaroslav Fabian

We report evidence of non-reciprocal dissipation-less transport in single ballistic InSb nanoflag Josephson junctions, owing to a strong spin-orbit coupling. Applying an in-plane magnetic field, we observe an inequality in supercurrent for…

The Josephson effect is theoretically studied in two types of SQUIDs consisting of $s$ wave superconductor and Sr$_2$RuO$_4$. Results show various response of the critical Josephson current to applied magnetic fields depending on the type…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Asano , Y. Tanaka , M. Sigrist , S. Kashiwaya

We consider a ballistic Josephson junction with a quantum point contact in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The point contact acts as a spin filter when embedded in a circuit with normal electrodes. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-15 A. A. Reynoso , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro , D. Feinberg , M. Avignon

We analyze new spin effects in current-carrying state of superconductor-2D electron gas-superconductor (S-2DEG-S) device with spin-polarized nuclei in 2DEG region. The hyperfine interaction of 2D electrons with nuclear spins, described by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-02-11 E. V. Bezuglyi , A. S. Rozhavsky , I. D. Vagner , P. Wyder

Recent progress in nanoscale manufacturing allowed to experimentally investigate quantum dots coupled to two superconducting leads in controlled and tunable setups. The equilibrium Josephson current was measured in on-chip SQUID devices and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-27 V. Meden

We consider electrons confined to a quantum dot interacting antiferromagnetically with a spin-$\half$ Kondo impurity. The electrons also interact among themselves ferromagnetically with a dimensionless coupling $\tilde{J}$, where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ganpathy Murthy

Nonreciprocal electrical transport, characterized by an asymmetric relationship between current and voltage, plays a crucial role in modern electronic industries. Recent studies have extended this phenomenon to superconductors, introducing…

The Josephson effect is a fundamental quantum phenomenon consisting in the appearance of a dissipationless supercurrent in a weak link between two superconducting (S) electrodes. While the mechanism leading to the Josephson effect is quite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-13 J. Paajaste , E. Strambini , M. Amado , S. Roddaro , P. San-Jose , R. Aguado , F. S. Bergeret , D. Ercolani , L. Sorba , F. Giazotto