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Conductivity mechanism in the regime of the intrinsic Josephson effect in layered superconductors with singlet d-wave pairing is studied theoretically. The cases of coherent and incoherent interlayer tunneling of electrons are considered.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 S. N. Artemenko

In this work we present a detailed theoretical analysis for the spectral properties of Andreev bound states in the multiterminal Josephson junctions by employing a symmetry-constrained scattering matrix approach. We find that in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-13 Hong-Yi Xie , Jaglul Hasan , Alex Levchenko

The increased capabilities of coupling more and more materials through functional interfaces are paving the way to a series of exciting experiments and extremely advanced devices. Here we focus on the capability of magnetically…

Tunneling defects in disordered materials form spurious two-level systems which are a major source of decoherence for micro-fabricated quantum devices. For superconducting qubits, defects in tunnel barriers of submicrometer-sized Josephson…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 Alexander Bilmes , Serhii Volosheniuk , Alexey V. Ustinov , Jürgen Lisenfeld

We measure the high-frequency emission of a single Cooper pair transistor(SCPT) in the regime where transport is only due to tunneling of Cooper pairs. This is achieved by coupling on-chip the SCPT to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 P. -M. Billangeon , F. Pierre , H. Bouchiat , R. Deblock

Josephson tunneling in twisted cuprate junctions provides a litmus test for the pairing symmetry, which is fundamental for understanding the microscopic mechanism of high temperature superconductivity. This issue is rekindled by…

Superconductor-based light-emitting diode (superconductor-based LED) in strong light-confinement regime are characterized as a superconductor-based three-terminal device, and its transport properties are quantitatively investigated. In the…

We investigate quasiparticle tunneling in a Cooper-pair box which is embedded in a superconducting ring to allow control of the total phase difference across the island. The phase affects the transition rate between different electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-14 Juha Leppäkangas , Michael Marthaler , Gerd Schön

In three-terminal NSN hybrid structures the influence of additional barriers on the nonlocal conductance and on current cross-correlations is studied within a scattering theory. In metallic systems with additional barriers and phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 Martina Flöser , Denis Feinberg , Régis Mélin

Approaches to developing large-scale superconducting quantum processors must cope with the numerous microscopic degrees of freedom that are ubiquitous in solid-state devices. State-of-the-art superconducting qubits employ aluminum oxide…

We have studied the Josephson dynamics of resistively-shunted ballistic superconducting quantum point contacts at finite temperatures and arbitrary number of conducting modes. Compared to the classical Josephson dynamics of tunnel…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 D. V. Averin , A. Bardas , H. T. Imam

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

Light-matter interaction enables engineering of non-equilibrium quantum systems. In condensed matter, spatially and temporally cyclic Hamiltonians are expected to generate energy-periodic Floquet states, with properties inaccessible at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-03 D. Z. Haxell , M. Coraiola , D. Sabonis , M. Hinderling , S. C. ten Kate , E. Cheah , F. Krizek , R. Schott , W. Wegscheider , W. Belzig , J. C. Cuevas , F. Nichele

Control of the Josephson current by varying a gate current has recently been demonstrated in both 4-terminal and 3-terminal junctions. We show that, when the the gates are weakly coupled to the Josephson junction, the Josephson current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Tolga Ilhan , Philip F. Bagwell

We demonstrate that in multilayered superconductor-ferromagnet structures a non-collinear alignment of the magnetizations of different ferromagnetic layers generates a triplet superconducting condensate which is odd in frequency. This…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 A. F. Volkov , F. S. Bergeret , K. B. Efetov

We consider a hybrid system consisting of two normal metal leads weakly connected to a superconductor. Current-current correlations of the normal leads are studied in the tunneling limit at subgap voltages and temperatures. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Bignon , M. Houzet , F. Pistolesi , F. W. J. Hekking

Electrical properties of Josephson junctions Nb/FeSi/Nb with superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F)interfaces are presented. Due to Andreev reflection the nearly exact quadruple enhancement of the tunnel junction differential conductance compared…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Vavra , S. Gazi , I. Vavra , G. Radnoczi , V. V. Moshchalkov , J. Derer , E. Kovacova

The non-dissipative non-linearity of a Josephson junction converts macroscopic superconducting circuits into artificial atoms, enabling some of the best controlled quantum bits (qubits) today. Three fundamental types of superconducting…

A Josephson junction, formed between two phase-biased superconductors and a normal metal, hosts a discrete spectrum of Andreev bound states (ABS). In this paper, we develop a theory for long ballistic Andreev interferometers in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Régis Mélin , Asmaul Smitha Rashid , Morteza Kayyalha

The promise of single Cooper pair quantum circuits based on tunnel junctions for metrology and quantum information applications is severely limited by the influence of "offset" charges - random, slowly drifting microscopic charges inherent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Vladimir E. Manucharyan , Jens Koch , Leonid Glazman , Michel Devoret