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We discuss the phase dependent nonlocal thermoelectric effect in a topological Josephson junction in contact with a normal-metal probe. We show that, due to the helical nature of topological edge states, nonlocal thermoelectricity is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Gianmichele Blasi , Fabio Taddei , Liliana Arrachea , Matteo Carrega , Alessandro Braggio

Josephson junctions fabricated on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators (TI) show a few unusual properties distinct from conventional Josephson junctions. In these devices, the Josephson coupling and the supercurrent are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-01-18 Christopher T. Olund , Erhai Zhao

We report new measurements on sup-gap energy structure originating from multiple Andreev reflections in mesoscopic SNS junctions. The junctions were fabricated in a planar geometry with high transparency superconducting contacts of Al…

Hybrid superconductor-semiconducting nanowire devices provide an ideal platform to investigating novel intragap bound states, such as the Andreev bound states (ABSs), Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states, and the Majorana bound states. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 S. Li , N. Kang , P. Caroff , H. Q. Xu

We have studied the transport properties of TEM lamellae obtained from a pyrolytic graphite sample with electrical contacts at the edges of the embedded interfaces. The temperature dependence of the resistance as well as the current-voltage…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 Ana Ballestar , Tero T Heikkilä , Pablo Esquinazi

We propose a device based on a topological Josephson junction where the helical edge states of a two-dimensional topological insulator are in close proximity to two superconducting leads. The presence of a magnetic flux through the junction…

We theoretically investigate the temperature-to-phase conversion (TPC) process occurring in dc superconducting quantum interferometers based on superconductor--normal metal--superconductor (SNS) mesoscopic Josephson junctions. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-21 P. Virtanen , A. Ronzani , F. Giazotto

We study the thermoelectrical transport transverse to conventional and topological Josephson junctions with a central quantum dot (QD). For that purpose, we derive an effective resonant tunneling model where the QD is renormalized with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Jonathan Sturm , Raffael L. Klees , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz , Daniel Gresta

Magnetic Josephson Junctions (MJJs) are a special class of hybrid systems where antagonistic correlations coexist, thus providing a key for advances in weak superconductivity, superconducting spintronics and quantum computation. So far, the…

Robust and tunable topological Josephson junctions (TJJs) are highly desirable platforms for investigating the anomalous Josephson effect and topological quantum computation applications. Experimental demonstrations have been done in hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 Gianmichele Blasi , Géraldine Haack , Vittorio Giovannetti , Fabio Taddei , Alessandro Braggio

How exactly can critical temperature be determined from results obtained in resistivity measurements? An unconventional approach using an electrical resistance network is presented in this paper to find an answer to this question. In a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-10-10 Harald Reiss

By improving resolution of home-made mutual-inductance measurements technique, a pronounced step-like structure (with the number of steps n=4 for all AC fields) has been observed in the temperature dependence of AC susceptibility in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Sergeenkov , F. M. Araujo-Moreira

Sensitive photon detection in the gigahertz band constitutes the cornerstone to study different phenomena in astronomy, such as radio burst sources, galaxy formation, cosmic microwave background, axions, comets, gigahertz-peaked spectrum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Federico Paolucci , Nadia Ligato , Vittorio Buccheri , Gaia Germanese , Pauli Virtanen , Francesco Giazotto

We theoretically investigate the critical current of a thermally-biased SIS Josephson junction formed by electrodes made by different BCS superconductors. The response of the device is analyzed as a function of the asymmetry parameter,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Claudio Guarcello , Alessandro Braggio , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto

The effect of dc electrical stress and breakdown on Josephson and quasiparticle tunneling in Nb/Al/AlOx/Nb junctions with ultrathin AlOx barriers typical for applications in superconductor digital electronics has been investigated. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-05 Sergey K. Tolpygo , Denis Amparo

Josephson junctions in two-dimensional topological insulators with embedded magnetic domains can host a number of topological phases, in particular, Jackiw-Rebbi solitons and Majorana zero modes. These different non-trivial phases appear in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Daniel Gresta , Gianmichele Blasi , Fabio Taddei , Matteo Carrega , Alessandro Braggio , Liliana Arrachea

We investigate the transport properties of a one-dimensional superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (S-N-S) system described within the tight-binding approximation. We compute the equilibrium dc Josephson current and the time-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Enrico Perfetto , Gianluca Stefanucci , Michele Cini

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

Electrical properties of Josephson junctions Nb/FeSi/Nb with superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F)interfaces are presented. Due to Andreev reflection the nearly exact quadruple enhancement of the tunnel junction differential conductance compared…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Vavra , S. Gazi , I. Vavra , G. Radnoczi , V. V. Moshchalkov , J. Derer , E. Kovacova

Two superconductors coupled by a weak link support an equilibrium Josephson electrical current which depends on the phase difference $\varphi$ between the superconducting condensates [1]. Yet, when a temperature gradient is imposed across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 Antonio Fornieri , Giuliano Timossi , Pauli Virtanen , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto