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We consider a short Josephson junction with a phase discontinuity $\kappa$ created, e.g., by a pair of tiny current injectors, at some point $x_0$ along the length of the junction. We derive the effective current-phase relation (CPR) for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-05-25 E. Goldobin , S. Mironov , A. Buzdin , R. G. Mints , D. Koelle , R. Kleiner

A zigzag boundary between a $d_{x^2-y^2}$ and an $s$-wave superconductor is believed to behave like a long Josephson junction with alternating sections of $0$ and $\pi$ symmetry. We calculate the field-dependent critical current of such a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Ivan Tornes , David Stroud

We study the peculiarities in current-phase relations (CPR) of the SIsFS junction in the region of $0$ to $\pi $ transition. These CPR consist of two independent branches corresponding to $0-$ and $\pi-$ states of the contact. We have found…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-23 S. V. Bakurskiy , N. V. Klenov , I. I. Soloviev , N. G. Pugach , M. Yu. Kupriyanov , A. A. Golubov

We present the results of theoretical study of Current-Phase Relations (CPR) in Josephson junctions of SIsFS type, where 'S' is a bulk superconductor and 'IsF' is a complex weak link consisting of a superconducting film 's', a metallic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-17 S. V. Bakurskiy , N. V. Klenov , I. I. Soloviev , M. Yu. Kupriyanov , A. A. Golubov

We study the transport properties of a superconductor-quantum spin Hall insulator-superconductor (S-QSHI-S) hybrid system in the presence of a microwave radiation. Instead of adiabatic analysis or using the resistively shunted junction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 Yu-Hang Li , Jie Liu , Juntao Song , Hua Jiang , Qing-Feng Sun , X. C. Xie

The combined action of a DC bias and a microwave drive on the transport characteristic of a superconductor-quantum dot-superconductor junction is investigated. To cope with time dependent non-equilibrium effects and interactions in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Julian Siegl , Jordi Picó-Cortés , Milena Grifoni

We investigate the current-phase-relation (CPR) of long diffusive superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) Josephson junctions in thermodynamic equilibrium and under microwave irradiation. While in equilibrium good agreement with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-24 M. Fuechsle , J. Bentner , D. A. Ryndyk , M. Reinwald , W. Wegscheider , C. Strunk

An array of resistively and capacitively shunted Josephson junctions with nonsinusoidal current-phase relation is considered for modelling the transition in high-T$_c$ superconductors. The emergence of higher harmonics, besides the simple…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-01-04 A. Carbone , M. Gilli , P. Mazzetti , L. Ponta

In the presence of an AC drive, multiterminal Josephson junctions exhibit the inverse AC Josephson effect, where the oscillations of the superconducting phase of each junction can lock onto one another or onto the external drive. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-23 François Amet , Sara Idris , Aeron McConnell , Brian Opatosky , Ethan Arnault

The $4\pi$-periodic Josephson effect is an indicator of Majorana zero modes and a ground-state degeneracy which are central to topological quantum computation. However, the observability of a $4\pi$-periodic Josephson current-phase relation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-04 G. Tkachov

We calculate the critical current $I_c$ across in-plane (001) tilt grain boundary junctions of high temperature superconductors. We solve for the electronic states corresponding to the electron-doped cuprates, two slightly different…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 Gerald B. Arnold , Richard A. Klemm

We propose the use of a laser beam tightly focused on a superconducting strip to create a Josephson junction by photothermal effect. The critical current of this junction can be easily controlled by the laser intensity. We show that a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-30 W. Magrini , S. Mironov , A. Rochet , P. Tamarat , Alexandre I. Buzdin , B. Lounis

We investigate the detection of quartets in hybrid multiterminal Josephson junctions. Using simple models of quantum dots coupled to superconducting leads, we find that quartets are ubiquitous and show how to rigorously extract their…

We expose superconducting nanowires to microwave radiation in order to study phase lock-in effects in quasi one dimensional superconductors. For sufficiently high microwave powers a resistive branch with Shapiro steps appears in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Robert C. Dinsmore , Myung-Ho Bae , Alexey Bezryadin

We study the spectrum of Andreev bound states and Josephson currents across a junction of $N$ superconducting wires which may have $s$- or $p$-wave pairing symmetries and develop a scattering matrix based formalism which allows us to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-30 Oindrila Deb , K. Sengupta , Diptiman Sen

When a superconducting tunnel junction at a finite voltage is irradiated with microwaves, the interplay between the alternating Josephson current and the ac field gives rise to steps in the dc current known as Shapiro steps. In this work we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 J. C. Cuevas , H. Pothier

Studying nanoscale dynamics is essential for understanding quantum materials and advancing quantum chip manufacturing. Still, it remains a major challenge to measure non-equilibrium properties such as current and dissipation, and their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Matthijs Rog , Tycho J. Blom , Daan B. Boltje , Jimi D. de Haan , Remko Fermin , Jiasen Niu , Yasmin C. Doedes , Milan P. Allan , Kaveh Lahabi

The current-voltage characteristic of a driven superconducting Josephson junction displays discrete steps. This phenomenon, called the Shapiro steps, forms today's voltage standard! Here, we report the observation of Shapiro steps in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-07 Erik Bernhart , Marvin Röhrle , Vijay Pal Singh , Ludwig Mathey , Luigi Amico , Herwig Ott

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

The superconducting current-phase relation (CPR) of Nb/Au/(001)YBa2Cu3Ox heterojunctions prepared on epitaxial c-axis oriented YBa2Cu3Ox thin films has been measured in a single-junction interferometer. For the first time, the second…