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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 study the influence of superconducting correlations on the electronic specific heat in a diffusive superconductor-normal metal-superconductor Josephson junction. We present a description of this system in the framework of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-15 H. Rabani , F. Taddei , O. Bourgeois , R. Fazio , F. Giazotto

Thermal noise is one of the physical obstacles that constrain the achievable detection sensitivities of various detectors. Indeed, as we showed in a recent paper (PRB 111, 024501 (2025)), the usual Josephson threshold detector (JTD)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Y. Q. Chai , M. Y. Wang , S. N. Wang , P. H. Ouyang , L. F. Wei

One of the best known causes of dissipation in ac driven quantum systems stems from photon absorption. Dissipation can also be caused by the retarded response to the time-dependent excitation, and in general gives insight into the system's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Bastien Dassonneville , Anil Murani , Meydi Ferrier , Sophie Guéron , Hélène Bouchiat

We demonstrate a flip-chip-based approach to microwave measurements of Andreev bound states in a gate-tunable planar Josephson junction using inductively-coupled superconducting low-loss resonators. By means of electrostatic gating, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 M. Hinderling , D. Sabonis , S. Paredes , D. Z. Haxell , M. Coraiola , S. C. ten Kate , E. Cheah , F. Krizek , R. Schott , W. Wegscheider , F. Nichele

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 study nonequilibrium Andreev resonances in a voltage-biased graphene three-terminal Josephson junction (JJ). We observe periodic oscillations of resistance with maxima at multiples of the magnetic flux quantum (noninversion regime). As…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Asmaul Smitha Rashid , Le Yi , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Nitin Samarth , Régis Mélin , Morteza Kayyalha

The Josephson current-phase characteristics, that arise when a supercurrent flows across two fermionic superfluids separated by a potential barrier, can be controlled by varying either the inter-particle coupling or the temperature. While…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-21 Verdiana Piselli , Stefano Simonucci , Giancarlo Calvanese Strinati

We report on the fabrication and measurements of planar mesoscopic Josephson junctions formed by InAs nanowires coupled to superconducting Nb terminals. The use of Si-doped InAs-nanowires with different bulk carrier concentrations allowed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-11 H. Y. Gunel , I. E. Batov , H. Hardtdegen , K. Sladek , A. Winden , K. Weis , G. Panaitov , D. Gruetzmacher , Th. Schaepers

We use Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID) microscopy to characterize the current-phase relation (CPR) of Josephson Junctions from 3-dimentional topological insulator HgTe (3D-HgTe). We find clear skewness in the CPRs of…

We calculate the differential conductance at a probe inserted in the weak link of a topological Josephson junction, consisting of a semiconducting nanowire deposited on top of two separated superconductors. Our aim is to understand how the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Stefano Valentini , Rosario Fazio , Fabio Taddei

The origin of AC resistivity in the high Tc superconductors is not addressed adequately in literature. We found out, Josephson Junction (JJ) decoupling is the main origin of the AC resistivity in high Tc superconductors. We have measured…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Sarangi , S. P. Chockalingam , S. V. Bhat

Van der Waals (vdW) Josephson junctions can possibly accelerate the development of advanced superconducting device that utilizes the unique properties of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) superconductors such as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-17 Chuanwen Zhao , Xin Yi , Qiao Chen , Chengyu Yan , Shun Wang

We report our progress in the high-temperature superconductor (HTS) Josephson junction fabrication process founded on using a focused helium ion beam damaging technique and discuss the expected device performance attainable with the HTS…

Thermocurrent flowing through a single-molecule device contains valuable information about the quantum properties of the molecular structure and, in particular, on its electronic and phononic excitation spectra, and entropy. Furthermore,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-24 Serhii Volosheniuk , Damian Bouwmeester , Chunwei Hsu , H. S. J. van der Zant , Pascal Gehring

Planar Josephson junctions provide a platform to host topological superconductivity which, through manipulating Majorana bound states (MBS), could enable fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, what constitutes experimental signatures of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Barış Pekerten , David Brandão , Bassel Heiba Elfeky , Tong Zhou , Jong E. Han , Javad Shabani , Igor Žutić

We show that the dc Josephson current through superconductor-antiferromagnet-superconductor (S/AF/S) junctions manifests a remarkable atomic scale dependence on the interlayer thickness. At low temperatures the junction is either a 0- or…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Brian M. Andersen , I. V. Bobkova , P. J. Hirschfeld , Yu. S. Barash

A normal conductor placed in good contact with a superconductor can inherit its remarkable electronic properties. This proximity effect microscopically originates from the formation in the conductor of entangled electron-hole states, called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Landry Bretheau , Joel I-Jan Wang , Riccardo Pisoni , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Phase- and voltage bias-sensitive quasiparticle transport at a double $NIS_1IS_2$ interface is considered. The barriers $I$ range from tunnel to transparent, and the intermediate region $S_1$ has a width comparable to the superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-16 David Gosselin , Gaston Hornecker , Régis Mélin , Denis Feinberg

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