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Superconducting devices with broken time-reversal and spatial-inversion symmetries can exhibit novel superconducting phenomena. The observation of superconducting diode effects, which is applicable for dissipationless rectification,…

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

Planar Josephson junctions (JJs), based on common superconductors and III-V semiconductors, are sought for Majorana states and fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, with gate-tunable spin-orbit coupling (SOC), we show that the range of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-03 David Monroe , Chenghao Shen , Dario Tringali , Mohammad Alidoust , Tong Zhou , Igor Žutić

Controlling the current-phase relation (CPR) of Josephson elements is essential for tailoring the eigenstates of superconducting qubits, tuning the properties of parametric amplifiers, and designing nonreciprocal superconducting devices.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 L. Banszerus , C. W. Andersson , W. Marshall , T. Lindemann , M. J. Manfra , C. M. Marcus , S. Vaitiekėnas

Typically, topological superconductivity is reachable via proximity effect by a direct deposition of superconductor (S) on top of a topological insulator (TI) surface. Here we observed and analyzed the double critical current in the…

Josephson junctions made of conventional superconductors display Fraunhofer-like oscillations of the critical current as a function of the threaded magnetic flux. When the superconductors are deposited on the surface of a three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Omri Lesser , Joon Young Park , Yuval Ronen , Thomas Werkmeister , Philip Kim , Yuval Oreg

A Josephson junction (JJ) is a key device in the development of superconducting circuits, wherein a supercurrent in the JJ is controlled by the phase difference between the two superconducting electrodes. Recently, it has been shown that…

We investigate the Josephson diode effect in an asymmetric SQUID consisting of a sinusoidal Josephson junction formed by a Bi$_2$Te$_2$Se flake and a superconducting Nb nanobridge with a linear and multivalued current-phase relation (CPR).…

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…

While Josephson junctions can be viewed as highly non-linear impedances for superconducting quantum technologies, they also possess internal dynamics that may strongly affect their behavior. Here, we construct a computational framework that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-29 Benoit Rossignol , Thomas Kloss , Xavier Waintal

The recent discovery of intrinsic supercurrent diode effect, and its prompt observation in a rich variety of systems, has shown that nonreciprocal supercurrents naturally emerge when both space- and time-inversion symmetries are broken. In…

In a Josephson junction, the current phase relation relates the phase variation of the superconducting order parameter, $\varphi$, between the two superconducting leads connected through a weak link, to the dissipationless current . This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Simon Messelot , Nicolas Aparicio , Elie de Seze , Eric Eyraud , Johann Coraux , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Julien Renard

We consider a two-dimensional electron gas with strong spin-orbit coupling contacted by two superconducting leads, forming a Josephson junction. We show that in the presence of an in-plane Zeeman field the quasi-one-dimensional region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Falko Pientka , Anna Keselman , Erez Berg , Amir Yacoby , Ady Stern , Bertrand I. Halperin

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

Dirac surface states in a topological insulator (TI) with proximity-induced superconductivity offer a promising platform for realizing topological superconductivity and Majorana physics. However, in TIs, the Josephson effect is usually…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Bomin Zhang , Xiaoda Liu , Junjie Qi , Ling-Jie Zhou , Deyi Zhuo , Han Tay , Hongtao Rong , Annie G. Wang , Zhiyuan Xi , Chao-Xing Liu , Chui-Zhen Chen , Cui-Zu Chang

When a topological insulator is incorporated into a Josephson junction, the system is predicted to reveal the fractional Josephson effect with a 4$\pi$-periodic current-phase relation. Here, we report the measurement of a $4\pi$-periodic…

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

Superconducting circuits with nonlinear elements such as Josephson tunnel junctions or kinetic inductance nanowires are the workhorse for microwave quantum and superconducting sensing technologies. For devices, which can be operated at high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Kevin Uhl , Daniel Hackenbeck , Dieter Koelle , Reinhold Kleiner , Daniel Bothner

Establishment of phase-coherence and a non-dissipative (super)current between two weakly coupled superconductors, known as the Josephson effect, plays a foundational role in basic physics and applications to metrology, precision sensing,…

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…