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We carry out an extensive experimental and theoretical study of the Josephson effect in S-N-S junctions made of a diffusive normal metal (N) embedded between two superconducting electrodes (S). Our experiments are performed on Nb-Cu-Nb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Dubos , H. Courtois , B. Pannetier , F. K. Wilhelm , A. D. Zaikin , G. Schon

We study the nonequilibrium Josephson current in a long two-dimensional ballistic SNS-junction with a normal reservoir coupled to the normal part of the junction. The current for a given superconducting phase difference $\phi$ oscillates as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 P. Samuelsson , A. Ingerman , V. S. Shumeiko , G. Wendin

We investigated current-voltage characteristics of unshunted and externally shunted Josephson junctions (JJs) with high critical current densities, Jc, in order to extract their basic parameters and statistical characteristics for JJ…

Josephson junctions are essential devices in superconducting electronics and quantum computing hardware. Here we predict electrical control of the supercurrent in composite superconductor-insulator-ferroelectric-insulator-superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-08 Yaozu Tang , Mazhar N. Ali , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Yaroslav M. Blanter

Superconducting digital Pulse-Conserving Logic (PCL) and Josephson SRAM (JSRAM) memory together enable scalable circuits with energy efficiency 100x beyond leading-node CMOS. Circuit designs support high throughput and low latency when…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Quentin Herr , Trent Josephsen , Anna Herr

We study the influence of external electric and Zeeman fields on the Josephson effect in a planar superconductor/altermagnet/superconductor junction. Remarkably, we find that the current-phase relation (CPR) can be forward or backward…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-09 Hai-Peng Sun , Song-Bo Zhang , Chang-An Li , Björn Trauzettel

We theoretically study the transport signatures of unpaired Floquet Majorana bound states in the Josephson current of weakly linked, periodically driven topological superconductors. We obtain the occupation of the Floquet Majorana modes in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Rekha Kumari , Babak Seradjeh , Arijit Kundu

We study theoretically the ac Josephson effect in superconducting planar d-wave junctions. The insulating barrier assumed to be present between the two superconductors may have arbitrary strength. Many properties of this system depend on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Magnus Hurd , Tomas Lofwander , Goran Johansson , Goran Wendin

We consider transport through a Josephson junction consisting of a conventional s-wave superconductor coupled via a double quantum dot to a noncentrosymmetric superconductor with both, singlet and triplet pairing. We calculate the Andreev…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-07-13 Björn Sothmann , Rakesh P. Tiwari

We develop a microscopic model to describe the Josephson dynamics between two superfluid reservoirs of ultracold fermionic atoms which accounts for the dependence of the critical current on both the barrier height and the interaction…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-12-04 Matteo Zaccanti , Wilhelm Zwerger

We develop a theoretical framework for planar quasi-ballistic Josephson junctions, where multiple superconducting leads are coupled through a large, nearly ballistic normal metal crystal. Our approach, based on quasiclassical Eilenberger…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-02 G. A. Bobkov , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , K. B. Polevoy , V. S. Stolyarov

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

We propose a method to realize a $\phi$ Josephson junction by combining alternating 0 and $\pi$ parts (sub junctions) with an intrinsically non-sinusoidal current-phase relation (CPR). Conditions for the realization of the $\phi$ ground…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-03-16 N. G. Pugach , E. Goldobin , R. Kleiner , D. Koelle

We study analytically an underdamped current-biased topological Josephson junction. First, we consider a simplified model at zero temperature, where the parity of the non-local fermionic state formed by Majorana bound states (MBSs)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-23 Aleksandr E. Svetogorov , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We study Superconductor-Ferromagnet-Superconductor (Nb-Cu0.47 Ni0.53-Nb) Josephson junctions with spatial variations in the barrier thickness. Critical current vs. magnetic flux diffraction patterns indicate that the critical current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Frolov , D. J. Van Harlingen , V. V. Bolginov , V. A. Oboznov , V. V. Ryazanov

The dc Josephson current through a long SNS junction receives contributions from both Andreev bound states localized in the normal region as well as from scattering states incoming from the superconducting leads. We show that in the limit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-02-20 Domenico Giuliano , Ian Affleck

Using a simple model of multi-band superconductors, which can be applied in particular to Fe\nobreakdash-based pnictides, we calculate the Josephson current $I_{\text{J}}$ in a tunnel junction composed by such superconductors. We employ the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-03-19 Andreas Moor , Anatoly F. Volkov , Konstantin B. Efetov

We theoretically study the stability of more than one Majorana Fermion appearing in a $p$-wave superconductor/dirty normal metal/$p$-wave superconductor junction in two-dimension by using chiral symmetry of Hamiltonian. At the phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 S. Ikegaya , Y. Asano

Electronic transport through nanostructures is greatly affected by the presence of superconducting leads. If the interface between the nanostructure and the superconductors is sufficiently transparent, a dissipationless current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Jorden A. van Dam , Leo P. Kouwenhoven

The pseudogap regime of the underdoped cuprates arguably remains one of the most enigmatic phenomena of correlated quantum matter. Recent theoretical ideas suggest that a pair density wave (PDW) or a "fractionalized PDW" could be a key…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-07 Anurag Banerjee , Alvaro Ferraz , Catherine Pépin