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Superconductor/semiconductor-nanowire hybrid structures can serve as versatile building blocks to realize Majorana circuits or superconducting qubits based on quantized levels such as Andreev qubits. For all these applications it is…

Low-loss inductors are essential components in various superconducting circuits, such as qubits or digital electronics. In this study, we investigate highly compact inductors formed by vertical stacking of Josephson junctions. Our…

Josephson junctions form the essential non-linearity for almost all superconducting qubits. The junction is formed when two superconducting electrodes come within $\sim$1 nm of each other. Although the capacitance of these electrodes is a…

The microscopic structure of ultra-thin oxide barriers often plays a major role in modern nano-electronic devices. In the case of superconducting electronic circuits, their operation depends on the electrical non-linearity provided by one…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-25 Timothy C. DuBois , Martin J. Cyster , George Opletal , Salvy P. Russo , Jared H. Cole

The Josephson Effect and Superconducting Proximity Effect were observed in Superconductor -Graphene-Superconductor (SGS) Josephson junctions with coherence lengths comparable to the distance between the superconducting leads. By comparing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Eva Y. Andrei

We demonstrate the transfer of the superconducting properties of NbTi---a large-gap high-critical-field superconductor---into an InAs heterostructure via a thin intermediate layer of epitaxial Al. Two device geometries, a Josephson junction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-14 A. C. C. Drachmann , H. J. Suominen , M. Kjaergaard , B. Shojaei , C. J. Palmstrøm , C. M. Marcus , F. Nichele

Scalability in the fabrication and operation of quantum computers is key to move beyond the NISQ era. So far, superconducting transmon qubits based on aluminum Josephson tunnel junctions have demonstrated the most advanced results, though…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-09-08 Tom Doekle Vethaak

We have studied the current voltage characteristics of diffusive mesoscopic Nb-Cu-Nb Josephson junctions with highly-transparent Nb-Cu interfaces. We consider the low-voltage and high-temperature regime eV<\epsilon_{c}<k_{B}T where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Dubos , H. Courtois , O. Buisson , B. Pannetier

We report the first experimental observation of subgap transport in ferromagnetic insulator/superconductor/insulator/superconductor junctions realized in EuS/Al/AlOx/Al vertical stacks. Differential conductance measurements reveal multiple…

We study the Josephson effect in a clean Superconductor-Ferromagnet-Superconductor junction for arbitrarily large spin polarizations. The Andreev reflection at a clean Ferromagnet-Superconductor interface is incomplete, and Andreev channels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Cayssol , G. Montambaux

We theoretically study coherent multiple Andreev reflections in a biased three-terminal Josephson junction. We demonstrate that the direct current flowing through the junction consists of supercurrent components when the bias voltages are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 M. P. Nowak , M. Wimmer , A. R. Akhmerov

When a normal metal $N$ is sandwiched between two superconductors, the energy gaps in the latter act as walls that confine electrons in $N$ in a square-well potential. If the voltage $V$ across $N$ is finite, an electron injected into the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-19 Zheyi Zhu , Stephan Kim , Shiming Lei , Leslie M. Schoop , R. J. Cava , N. P. Ong

We describe a Josephson device composed of two superconductors separated by two interacting quantum dots in parallel, as a probe for Cooper pair splitting. In addition to sequential tunneling of electrons through each dot, an additional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 R. Jacquet , J. Rech , T. Jonckheere , A. Zazunov , T. Martin

We report on the fabrication of Nb/AlO_x/Pd_{0.82}Ni_{0.18}/Nb superconductor/insulator/ferromagnetic metal/superconductor (SIFS) Josephson junctions with high critical current densities, large normal resistance times area products, high…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-08-05 G. Wild , C. Probst , A. Marx , R. Gross

In a transparent three-terminal Josephson junction, modeling nonequilibrium transport is numerically challenging, owing to the interplay between multiple Andreev reflection (MAR) thresholds and multipair resonances in the pair current. An…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-06 Régis Mélin , Denis Feinberg , 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 have examined the electrical behavior of Josephson junctions formed by a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) with a Nb sample and a Nb tip, with normal-state resistances Rn varying between 1 kOhm and 10 MOhm. Current-voltage…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-16 Wan-Ting Liao , S. K. Dutta , R. E. Butera , C. J. Lobb , F. C. Wellstood , M. Dreyer

This paper presents the fabrication and characterization of superconducting qubit components from titanium nitride (TiN) and aluminum nitride (AlN) layers to create Josephson junctions and superconducting resonators in an all-nitride…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Benedikt Schoof , Moritz Singer , Simon Lang , Harsh Gupta , Daniela Zahn , Johannes Weber , Marc Tornow

Niobium offers the benefit of increased operating temperatures and frequencies for Josephson junctions, which are the core component of superconducting devices. However existing niobium processes are limited by more complicated fabrication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Alexander Anferov , Kan-Heng Lee , Fang Zhao , Jonathan Simon , David I. Schuster

We report the realization of multilayer three-dimensional nanobridge Josephson junctions based on Nb/NbN and Nb/TiN superconducting stacks fabricated using electron-beam lithography and chlorine-based dry etching. In this architecture, a…