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We study a phase-tunable four-terminal Josephson junction formed in an InSbAs two-dimensional electron gas proximitized by aluminum. By embedding the two pairs of junction terminals in asymmetric DC SQUIDs we can control the superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Christian G. Prosko , Wietze D. Huisman , Ivan Kulesh , Di Xiao , Candice Thomas , Michael J. Manfra , Srijit Goswami

When a Josephson junction is exposed to microwave radiation, it undergoes the inverse AC Josephson effect - the phase of the junction locks to the drive frequency. As a result, the I-V curves of the junction acquire "Shapiro steps" of…

Recently discovered phase of collinear magnet called, altermagnet breaks time reversal symmetry (TRS), exhibits momentum-dependent spin-splitting of band structure with zero net magnetization. In this work, we theoretically investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Lovy Sharma , Manisha Thakurathi

We investigate the Josephson diode effect (JDE) in topological Josephson junctions. By both analytic and numerical calculations, we find that while a Josephson junction in the topological phase may exhibit higher diode efficiency compared…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-22 Zhaochen Liu , Linghao Huang , Jing Wang

We study diffusive magnetic Josephson junctions with four superconducting terminals in the weak proximity limit where the leads are arranged in cross form. Employing the linearized Keldysh-Usadel technique, the anomalous Green's function…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-04-23 Mohammad Alidoust , Granville Sewell , Jacob Linder

In Josephson diodes the asymmetry between positive and negative current branch of the current-phase relation leads to a polarity-dependent critical current and Josephson inductance. The supercurrent nonreciprocity can be described as a…

The Josephson diode effect, where the critical current magnitude depends on its direction, arises when both time-reversal and inversion symmetries are broken - often achieved by a combination of spin-orbit interaction and applied magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Gerrit Behner , Abdur Rehman Jalil , Detlev Grützmacher , Thomas Schäpers

We examine how an anomalous Josephson current influences odd-frequency superconducting correlations in two distinct Josephson junction geometries. The first configuration consists of two ferromagnetic layers sandwiched between conventional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-21 Subhajit Pal , Colin Benjamin

We study Josephson junctions made of semiconducting nanowires with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, where superconducting correlations are induced by the proximity effect. In the presence of a suitably directed magnetic field, the system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 Konstantin N. Nesterov , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer

Superconductor-semiconductor hybrids are useful for realizing the Josephson diode effect, where nonreciprocity in the supercurrents occurs due to the interplay of the Josephson effect and applied magnetic fields. These junctions can host…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-20 Sayan Mondal , Pei-Hao Fu , Jorge Cayao

A Josephson diode is a superconducting circuit element that enables non-reciprocal transport, allowing a dissipationless supercurrent to preferentially flow in a single direction. Existing methods for achieving the required symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 David Scheer , Rubén Seoane Souto , Fabian Hassler , Jeroen Danon

The spin superconductor state is the spin-polarized triplet exciton condensate, which can be viewed as a counterpart of the charge superconductor state. As an analogy of the charge Josephson effect, the spin Josephson effect can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 W. Zeng , R. Shen

Josephson junctions with three or more superconducting leads have been predicted to exhibit topological effects in the presence of few conducting modes within the interstitial normal material. Such behavior, of relevance for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Gino V. Graziano , Joon Sue Lee , Mihir Pendharkar , Chris Palmstrøm , Vlad S. Pribiag

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

The supercurrent diode effect (SDE), characterized by unequal critical currents in opposite directions, has been observed with or without magnetic fields, yet mechanisms enabling zero-field SDE without explicit symmetry breaking remain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-16 Yiheng Sun , Zhenyu Zhang , James Jun He

A nonstationary anomalous Hall current is calculated for a voltage biased Josephson junction, which is composed of two s-wave superconducting contacts deposited on the top of a three dimensional topological insulator (TI). A homogeneous…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-24 A. G. Mal'shukov

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…

Superconducting systems exhibit non-reciprocal current transport under certain conditions of symmetry breaking, a phenomenon known as the superconducting diode effect. This effect allows for perfect rectification of supercurrent, and has…

Altermagnets (AMs) are an exotic class of antiferromagnet that exhibit spin-splitting even at the absence of net global magnetization and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effects. In this work, we investigated theoretically, the supercurrent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-02 Arindam Boruah , Saumen Acharjee , Prasanta Kumar Saikia

We consider phase-biased Josephson junctions with spin-orbit coupling under external magnetic fields and study the emergence of the Josephson diode effect in the presence of Majorana bound states. We show that junctions having middle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-08 Jorge Cayao , Naoto Nagaosa , Yukio Tanaka