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A superconductor-semiconducting nanowire-superconductor heterostructure in the presence of spin orbit coupling and magnetic field can support a supercurrent even in the absence of phase difference between the superconducting electrodes. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Campagnano , P. Lucignano , D. Giuliano , A. Tagliacozzo

The interplay of quantum fluctuations and dissipation in chains of mesoscopic superconducting grains is analyzed, and the results are also applied to nanowires. It is shown that in 1-d arrays of resistively shunted Josephson junctions, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Gil Refael , Eugene Demler , Yuval Oreg , Daniel S. Fisher

Recently achieved chiral condensates open intriguing avenues for the study of the chiral properties induced by current-density interactions. An attempt to include these features in a spinor system is presented, which gives rise to a…

Spin-polarized transport is investigated in normal metal-superconductor (NS) junctions as a function of interface transmissivity as well as temperature when the density of states of a superconductor is Zeeman-split in response to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-03 F. Giazotto , F. Taddei

We report on the fabrication and measurements of planar mesoscopic Josephson junctions formed by InAs nanowires coupled to superconducting Nb terminals. The use of Si-doped InAs-nanowires with different bulk carrier concentrations allowed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-11 H. Y. Gunel , I. E. Batov , H. Hardtdegen , K. Sladek , A. Winden , K. Weis , G. Panaitov , D. Gruetzmacher , Th. Schaepers

The Josephson effect describes supercurrent flowing through a junction connecting two superconducting leads by a thin barrier [1]. This current is driven by a superconducting phase difference $\phi$ between the leads. In the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-28 D. B. Szombati , S. Nadj-Perge , D. Car , S. R. Plissard , E. P. A. M. Bakkers , L. P. Kouwenhoven

We show that supercurrent properties in a superfluid or superconducting junction are significantly modified due to single-particle losses present in a conduction channel. In the presence of a spin-independent particle loss, we find regimes…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-05-28 Risa Ogino , Shun Uchino

We investigate dynamics of two-dimensional chiral solitons of semi-vortex (SV) and mixed-mode (MM) types in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates with the Manakov nonlinearity, loaded in a dual-core (double-layer) trap. The system…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-28 Zhaopin Chen , Yongyao Li , Boris A. Malomed

We theoretically investigate the phase-dependent heat transport of a temperature-biased granular Josephson junction in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. We illustrate the influence of geometry of the junction on the thermal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-13 Elaheh Afsaneha , Heshmatolah Yavari

We observe a series of discontinuities in the above gap current/voltage characteristics of highly transmissive Nb/Si superconductor/semiconductor interfaces. The bias at which each switch occurs decreases in quantized steps as a function of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 M. J. Black , B. W. Alphenaar , H. Ahmed

We theoretically study the spin-polarized current flowing through a Josephson junction (JJ) in a spin injection device. When the spin-polarized current is injected from a ferromagnet (FM) in a superconductor (SC), the charge current is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Takahashi , T. Yamashita , T. Koyama , S. Maekawa , H. Imamura

A microscopic theory for the coupling of intrinsic Josephson oscillations due to charge fluctuations on the quasi two-dimensional superconducting layers is presented. Thereby in close analogy to the normal state the effect of the scalar…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Ch. Helm , J. Keller , Ch. Preis , A. Sergeev

We show that Floquet chiral topological superconductivity arises naturally in Josephson junctions made of magnetic topological insulator-superconductor sandwich structures. The Josephson phase modulation associated with an applied bias…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Rui-Xing Zhang , S. Das Sarma

A Josephson supercurrent has been induced into the three-dimensional topological insulator Bi1.5Sb0.5Te1.7Se1.3. We show that the transport in Bi1.5Sb0.5Te1.7Se1.3 exfoliated flakes is dominated by surface states and that the bulk…

We study the Josephson effect in the spin-singlet superconductor/altermagnet/spin-triplet superconductor junctions using the Green's function method. The current-phase difference relationships in the junctions strongly depend on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-06 Qiang Cheng , Qing-Feng Sun

A model system consisting of a mesoscopic superconducting grain coupled by Josephson junctions to two macroscopic superconducting electrodes is studied. We focus on the effects of ohmic dissipation caused by resistive shunts and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Gil Refael , Eugene Demler , Yuval Oreg , Daniel S. Fisher

We study the three-dimensional XY-spin glass as a model for the resistive behavior of granular superconductors containing a random distribution of $\pi$ junctions, as in high-$T_c$ superconducting materials with d-wave symmetry. The $\pi$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Enzo Granato

Exotic superconducting properties of Sr$_{2}$RuO$_{4}$ have provided strong support for an unconventional pairing symmetry. However, the extensive efforts over the past decade have not yet unambiguously resolved the controversy about the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Igor Zutic , Igor Mazin

The continuous development of superconducting electronics is encouraging several studies on hybrid Josephson junctions (JJs) based on superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor (SFS) heterostructures, as either spintronic devices or…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-20 H. G. Ahmad , R. Caruso , A. Pal , G. Rotoli , G. P. Pepe , M. G. Blamire , F. Tafuri , D. Massarotti

Spin-orbit coupling gives rise to a range of spin-charge interconversion phenomena in non-magnetic systems where certain spatial symmetries are reduced or absent. Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS), a term that generically refers to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 W. Dednam , M. A. García-Blázquez , Linda A. Zotti , E. B. Lombardi , C. Sabater , S. Pakdel , J. J. Palacios