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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

We investigate nonlocal coherent transport in ballistic four-terminal Josephson structures (where bulk superconductors (terminals) are connected through a clean normal layer, e.g., a two-dimensional electron gas). Coherent anisotropic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 M. H. S. Amin , A. N. Omelyanchouk , A. M. Zagoskin

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

A planar Josephson junction is a versatile platform to realize topological superconductivity over a large parameter space and host Majorana bound states. With a change in Zeeman field, this system undergoes a transition from trivial to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Barış Pekerten , David Brandão , Bailey Bussiere , David Monroe , Tong Zhou , Jong E. Han , Javad Shabani , Alex Matos-Abiague , Igor Žutić

Multiply connected electronic networks threaded by flux tubes have been proposed as a platform for adiabatic quantum transport and topological states. Multi-terminal Josephson junction (MTJJ) has been suggested as a pathway to realize this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Woochan Jung , Seyoung Jin , Sein Park , Seung-Hyun Shin , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Gil Young Cho , Gil-Ho Lee

Josephson radiation is a useful signature for detecting Majorana zero modes in topological superconductors. We study the Josephson radiation of the underdamped topological Josephson junction within the quantum resistively and capacitively…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-26 Yuejian Zhang , Xiping Yang , Jia-Jin Feng , Zhi Wang , Tianxing Ma

Hybrid Josephson junctions realized on a two-dimensional electron gas are considered promising candidates for developing topological elements that are easily controllable and scalable. Here, we theoretically study the possibility of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 D. Kuiri , M. P. Nowak

We introduce Weyl Josephson circuits: small Josephson junction circuits that simulate Weyl band structures. We first formulate a general approach to design circuits that are analogous to Bloch Hamiltonians of a desired dimensionality and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Valla Fatemi , Anton R. Akhmerov , Landry Bretheau

Nodal noncentrosymmetric superconductors have topologically nontrivial properties manifested by protected zero-energy surface states. Specifically, it was recently found that zero-energy surface flat bands of topological origin appear at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-01-13 Andreas P. Schnyder , P. M. R. Brydon , Carsten Timm

The interplay between topological protection and dissipation constitutes a critical frontier in the realization of hybrid quantum devices. Here, we investigate the transport signatures in a dissipative topological insulator-based Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-03 Ardamon Sten , Paramita Dutta , Sudeep Kumar Ghosh

Multiterminal Josephson junctions are a promising platform to host synthetic topological phases of matter and Floquet states. However, the energy scales governing topological protection in these devices are on the order of the spacing…

Andreev scattering and the Josephson current through a one-dimensional interacting electron liquid sandwiched between two superconductors are re-examined. We first present some apparently new results on the non-interacting case by studying…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Ian Affleck , Jean-Sebastien Caux , Alexandre Zagoskin

We outline a recently developed theory of impedance-matching, or reflectionless excitation of arbitrary finite photonic structures in any dimension. It describes the necessary and sufficient conditions for perfectly reflectionless…

The fractional Josephson effect is known to be a characteristic phenomenon of topological Josephson junctions hosting Majorana zero modes (MZMs), where the Josephson current has a $4\pi$ (rather than a $2\pi$) periodicity in the phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-01 Shuntaro Sumita , Akira Furusaki

A three-terminal Josephson junction consists of three superconductors coupled coherently to a small nonsuperconducting island, such as a diffusive metal, a single or double quantum dot. A specific resonant single quantum dot three-terminal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-16 Régis Mélin , Jean-Guy Caputo , Kang Yang , Benoît Douçot

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 examine in theory and by numerical simulation, the dynamic process of switching from a zero voltage to a finite voltage state in a Josephson junction circuit. The theoretical model describes small capacitance Josephson junctions which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Sjostrand , J. Walter , E. Tholen , H. Hansson , D. Haviland , A. Karlhede

We present a formulation of the quasiclassical theory of junctions between itinerant antiferromagnets (AF) and s-wave (sSC) and d-wave superconductors (dSC). For the simplest two-sublattice antiferromagnet on a bipartite lattice, we derive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 I. V. Bobkova , P. J. Hirschfeld , Yu. S. Barash

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

In this work, we investigate the Josephson effect between a two-band superconductor either with the $s++$ (two energy gaps have the same sign and are fully gapped) pairing symmetry or $s\pm$ (two energy gaps have $\pi$ phase difference and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-07-12 Shi-Zeng Lin