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In hybrid Josephson junctions with three or more superconducting terminals coupled to a semiconducting region, Andreev bound states may form unconventional energy band structures, or Andreev matter, which are engineered by controlling…

Topological superconductors differ from topologically trivial ones for the presence of topologically protected zero-energy modes. To date, experimental evidence of topological superconductivity in nanostructures has been mainly obtained by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-22 Pasquale Marra , Roberta Citro , Alessandro Braggio

We study non-Hermitian Josephson junctions formed by superconductors with a finite phase difference under non-Hermiticity, which naturally appears due to coupling to normal reservoirs. Depending on the structure of non-Hermiticity, captured…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-13 Jorge Cayao , Masatoshi Sato

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 find that the vortex bound states in superconducting topological semimetals are gapless owing to topological massless excitations in their normal states. We demonstrate this universal result in a variety of semimetals including Dirac and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-28 Yi Zhang , Shengshan Qin , Kun Jiang , Jiangping Hu

Multi-terminal Josephson junction with three or more superconductors is an attractive quantum system to emerge and tune exotic electronic states. In four terminal Josephson junctions, the Weyl physics, namely topologically protected zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Kento Takemura , Mikio Eto , Tomohiro Yokoyama

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

There is growing interest in using multi-terminal Josephson junctions (MTJJs) as a platform to artificially emulate topological phases and to investigate complex superconducting mechanisms such as quartet and multiplet Cooper pairings.…

In recent years, various classes of systems were proposed to realize topological states of matter. One of them are multiterminal Josephson junctions where topological Andreev bound states are constructed in the synthetic space of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Lev Teshler , Hannes Weisbrich , Jonathan Sturm , Raffael L. Klees , Gianluca Rastelli , Wolfgang Belzig

We show that the quasi-continuous gapless spectrum of Andreev bound states in multi-terminal semi-classical superconducting nanostructures exhibits a big number of topological singularities. We concentrate on Weyl points in a 4-terminal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Hristo Barakov , Yuli V. Nazarov

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

We present a unified description of a junction between $s$-wave (BCS) superconductors and a junction between $p$-wave superconductors in a topologically nontrivial phase, which relies on a scattering state expansion. We compute Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-03-26 R. Jacquet , J. Rech , T. Jonckheere , A. Zazunov , T. Martin

Topological materials and their unusual transport properties are now at the focus of modern experimental and theoretical research. Their topological properties arise from the bandstructure determined by the atomic composition of a material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Roman-Pascal Riwar , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer , Yuli V. Nazarov

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

Topological insulators and superconductors are characterized by their gapless boundary modes. In this paper, we develop a recursive approach to the boundary Green function which encodes this nontrivial boundary physics. Our approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Yang Peng , Yimu Bao , Felix von Oppen

I. Introduction (What is new in RMT, Superconducting quasiparticles, Experimental platforms) II. Topological superconductivity (Kitaev chain, Majorana operators, Majorana zero-modes, Phase transition beyond mean-field) III. Fundamental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 C. W. J. Beenakker

We study the stationary Josephson current in a junction between a topological and an ordinary (topologically trivial) superconductor. Such an S-TS junction hosts a Majorana zero mode that significantly influences the current-phase relation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 P. A. Ioselevich , P. M. Ostrovsky , M. V. Feigelman

Josephson radiation is a powerful method to probe Majorana zero modes in topological superconductors. Recently, Josephson radiation with half the Josephson frequency has been experimentally observed in a HgTe-based junction, possibly from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-30 Jia-Jin Feng , Zhao Huang , Zhi Wang , Qian Niu

We theoretically study the superconducting diode effect in a three-terminal Josephson junction. The diode effect in superconducting systems is typically related to the presence of a difference in the critical currents for currents flowing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-07 Jorge Huamani Correa , Michal P. Nowak

We study systematically the scattering processes and the conductance spectra in nodal-line semimetalsuperconductor junctions using the extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk theory. The coexistence of peculiar quadruple reflections are found,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-11 Qiang Cheng , Zhe Hou , Qing-Feng Sun