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We investigate the Josephson radiation emitted by a junction made of a quantum dot coupled to two conventional superconductors. Close to resonance, the particle-hole symmetric Andreev states that form in the junction are detached from the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-08-05 Baptiste Lamic , Julia S. Meyer , Manuel Houzet

We study a phase-tunable four-terminal Josephson junction formed in an InSbAs two-dimensional electron gas proximitized by aluminum. By embedding the two pairs of junction terminals in asymmetric DC SQUIDs we can control the superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Christian G. Prosko , Wietze D. Huisman , Ivan Kulesh , Di Xiao , Candice Thomas , Michael J. Manfra , Srijit Goswami

We theoretically investigate the transport properties of Josephson junctions composed of superconductor/minimally twisted bilayer graphene/superconductor structures. In the presence of an out-of-plane electric field, the low energy physics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Ritajit Kundu , Arijit Kundu

Recently we predicted that the Andreev bound state spectrum of 4-terminal Josephson junctions may possess topologically protected zero-energy Weyl singularities, which manifest themselves in a quantized transconductance in units of $4e^2/h$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Erik Eriksson , Roman-Pascal Riwar , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer , Yuli V. Nazarov

The phase-dependent bound states (Andreev levels) of a Josephson junction can cross at the Fermi level, if the superconducting ground state switches between even and odd fermion parity. The level crossing is topologically protected, in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-23 C. W. J. Beenakker , J. M. Edge , J. P. Dahlhaus , D. I. Pikulin , Shuo Mi , M. Wimmer

Andreev bound states are superpositions of electrons and holes in a metal that form by coherent reflection from a superconductor. When the length of the superconductor is comparable to the superconducting coherence length, Andreev bound…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Anders Enevold Dahl , Andrea Maiani , Max Geier , Javad Shabani , Karsten Flensberg

The transition-metal dichalcogenides featuring Ising spin-orbit coupling in so-called Ising superconductors offer a unique system to study the interplay of singlet and triplet superconductivity. The presence of high critical fields,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Sourabh Patil , Gaomin Tang , Wolfgang Belzig

We study Josephson junctions between superconductors connected through the helical edge states of a two-dimensional topological insulator in the presence of a magnetic barrier. As the equilibrium Andreev bound states of the junction are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Driss M. Badiane , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer

Planar Josephson junctions (JJs) have emerged as a promising platform for the realization of topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes. To obtain robust quasi one-dimensional (1D) topological superconducting states using planar…

We consider a finite-size topological Josephson junction formed at the edge of a two-dimensional topological insulator in proximity to conventional superconductors and study the impact of Cooper pair symmetries on the electron transport. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-13 Jorge Cayao , Paramita Dutta , Pablo Burset , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We study the spectrum of Andreev bound states and Josephson currents across a junction of $N$ superconducting wires which may have $s$- or $p$-wave pairing symmetries and develop a scattering matrix based formalism which allows us to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-30 Oindrila Deb , K. Sengupta , Diptiman Sen

We analyze the properties of flat-band superconductor junctions that behave differently from ordinary junctions containing only metals with Fermi surfaces. In particular, we show how in the tunneling limit the critical Josephson current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-08 P. Virtanen , R. P. S. Penttilä , P. Törmä , A. Díez-Carlón , D. K. Efetov , T. T. Heikkilä

Self-consistent solutions of microscopic Eilenberger theory are presented for a two-dimensional model of a superconducting channel with a geometric constriction. Magnetic fields, external ones as well as those caused by the supercurrents,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-08-29 A. Gumann , T. Dahm , N. Schopohl

We theoretically study topological superconductivity in elongated planar Josephson junctions. In the presence of spin-orbit coupling and an in-plane magnetic field, the Josephson junction can enter the topological phase and host zero-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 D. Kuiri , P. Wójcik , M. P. Nowak

To guide the search for the Majorana fermion, we theoretically study superconductor/topological/superconductor (S/TI/S) junctions in an experimentally relevant regime. We find that the striking features present in these systems, including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-01 M. Snelder , M. Veldhorst , A. A. Golubov , A. Brinkman

We study all the possible different two terminal configurations of Josephson junctions containing wires of time-reversal invariant topological superconductors (TRITOPS) and ordinary superconductors, including combinations with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Liliana Arrachea , Alberto Camjayi , Armando A. Aligia , Leonel Gruñeiro

Spectra and spin structures of Andreev interface states and the Josephson current are investigated theoretically in junctions between clean superconductors (SC) with ordered interlayers. The Josephson current through the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuri Barash , I. V. Bobkova , Brian M. Andersen , T. Kopp , P. J. Hirschfeld

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 made of closely-spaced conventional superconductors on the surface of 3D topological insulators have been proposed to host Andreev bound states (ABSs) which can include Majorana fermions. Here, we present an extensive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-07-04 C. Kurter , A. D. K. Finck , P. Ghaemi , Y. S. Hor , D. J. Van Harlingen

We present a microscopic theory for the current through a tunnel Josephson junction coupled to a non-linear environment, which consists of an Andreev two-level system coupled to a harmonic oscillator. It models a recent experiment…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-13 L. Bretheau , Ç. Girit , M. Houzet , H. Pothier , D. Esteve , C. Urbina