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We investigate superconducting quantum interference devices consisting of two highly transmissive Josephson junctions coupled by a superconducting loop, all defined in an epitaxial InAs/Al heterostructure. A novel device design allows for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 F. Nichele , E. Portolés , A. Fornieri , A. M. Whiticar , A. C. C. Drachmann , T. Wang , G. C. Gardner , C. Thomas , A. T. Hatke , M. J. Manfra , C. M. Marcus

Multi-terminal superconducting Josephson junctions based on the proximity effect offer the bright opportunity to tailor non trivial quantum states in nanoscale weak-links. These structures can realize exotic topologies in multidimensions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-09 E. Strambini , S. D'Ambrosio , F. Vischi , F. S. Bergeret , Yu. V. Nazarov , F. Giazotto

We demonstrate that phase-dependent heat currents through superconductor-topological insulator Josephson junctions provide a useful tool to probe the existence of topological Andreev bound states, even for multi-channel surface states. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 Björn Sothmann , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

We demonstrate that the mode number of Andreev bound states in bilayer graphene Josephson junctions can be modulated by in situ control of the superconducting coherence length. By exploiting the quadratic band dispersion of bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Geon-Hyoung Park , Wonjun Lee , Sein Park , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Gil Young Cho , Gil-Ho Lee

We investigate the low-energy theory of a one-dimensional finite capacitance topological Josephson junction. Charge fluctuations across the junction couple to resonant microwave fields and can be used to probe microscopic excitations such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-13 Konstantin Yavilberg , Eran Ginossar , Eytan Grosfeld

The rise of topological phases of matter is strongly connected to their potential to host Majorana bound states, a powerful ingredient in the search for a robust, topologically protected, quantum information processing. In order to produce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Erwann Bocquillon , Jonas Wiedenmann , Russell S. Deacon , Teunis M. Klapwijk , Hartmut Buhmann , Laurens W. Molenkamp

Multiterminal Josephson junctions constitute engineered topological systems in arbitrary synthetic dimensions defined by the superconducting phases. Microwave spectroscopy enables the measurement of the quantum geometric tensor, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-09 Raffael L. Klees , Juan Carlos Cuevas , Wolfgang Belzig , Gianluca Rastelli

Frequency analysis of the rf emission of oscillating Josephson supercurrent is a powerful passive way of probing properties of topological Josephson junctions. In particular, measurements of the Josephson emission enables to detect the…

We propose that a device composed of two vertically stacked monolayer graphene Josephson junctions can be used for Cooper pair splitting. The hybridization of the Andreev bound states of the two Josephson junction can facilitate non-local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Eduárd Zsurka , Noel Plaszkó , Péter Rakyta , Andor Kormányos

We analyze the Andreev spectrum in a four-terminal Josephson junction between one-dimensional topological superconductors in class D. We find that a topologically protected crossing in the space of three superconducting phase differences…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer

Josephson junctions formed by finite-length topological superconductors host four Majorana zero modes when the phase difference between the superconductors is $\varphi=\pi$ and their length is larger than the Majorana localization length.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-23 Jorge Cayao , Masatoshi Sato

We study a non-Hermitian, multiterminal superconducting-normal system in order to identify experimental signatures of exceptional points. We focus on a minimal setting with a single spinful level, spin-dependent normal leads, and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Oliver Solow , Karsten Flensberg

We consider a Josephson junction built with the two-dimensional semi-Dirac semimetal, which features a hybrid of linear and quadratic dispersion around a nodal point. We model the weak link between the two superconducting regions by a Dirac…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-04-10 Ipsita Mandal

Topological superconductors are appealing building blocks for robust and reliable quantum information processing. Most platforms for engineering topological superconductivity rely on a combination of superconductors, materials with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Ignacio Sardinero , Rubén Seoane Souto , Pablo Burset

We consider Josephson junctions formed by coupling two conventional superconductors via an unconventional magnet and investigate the formation of Andreev bound states, their impact on the Josephson effect, and the emergent superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-25 Yuri Fukaya , Kazuki Maeda , Keiji Yada , Jorge Cayao , Yukio Tanaka , Bo Lu

The quantum mechanics of the Josephson effect is the core ingredient for quantum technologies with superconducting circuits. A new avenue was recently opened in this field by predicting that the Josephson quantum mechanics in the odd parity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer , Yuli V. Nazarov

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…

Andreev bound states with opposite phase-inversion asymmetries are observed in local and non-local tunneling spectra at the two ends of a superconductor-semiconductor-superconductor planar Josephson junction in the presence of a…

A theory is offered for the ballistic 4-terminal Josephson junction. The studied system consists of a mesoscopic two-dimensional normal rectangular layer which is attached in each side to the bulk superconducting banks (terminals). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Malek Zareyan , A. N. Omelyanchouk

We investigate the sub gap properties of a three terminal Josephson T-junction composed of topologically superconducting wires connected by a normal metal region. This system naturally hosts zero energy Andreev bound states which are of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-03 Christian Spånslätt , Eddy Ardonne