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We study nonequilibrium charge transport in a double-barrier Josephson junction, including nonstationary phenomena, using the time-dependent quasiclassical Keldysh Green's function formalism. We supplement the kinetic equations by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Brinkman , A. A. Golubov , H. Rogalla , F. K. Wilhelm , M. Yu. Kupriyanov

We present a quantitative characterization of an electrically tunable Josephson junction defined in an InAs nanowire proximitized by an epitax-ially-grown superconducting Al shell. The gate-dependence of the number of conduction channels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-28 M. F. Goffman , C. Urbina , H. Pothier , J. Nygård , C. M. Marcus , P. Krogstrup

Mesoscopic superconducting-normal-metal-superconducting (S-N-S) junctions with a large separation between the superconducting electrodes (i.e. wide junctions) exhibit nonequilibrium supercurrents, even at temperatures for which the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Nathan Argaman

We investigate transport properties of junctions between two spin-split superconductors linked by a spin-polarized tunneling barrier. The spin-splitting fields in the superconductors (S) are induced by adjacent ferromagnetic insulating (FI)…

Charge transport in a high-transmission single-mode long SINIS junction (S stands for superconductor, I is an insulator, and N is a normal metal) is considered in the limit of low bias voltages and low temperatures. The kinetic equation for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 N. B. Kopnin J. Voutilainen

We report the results of several nonequilibrium experiments performed on superconducting/normal/superconducting (S/N/S) Josephson junctions containing either one or two extra terminals that connect to normal reservoirs. Currents injected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. S. Crosser , Jian Huang , F. Pierre , Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkilä , F. K. Wilhelm , Norman O. Birge

The Josephson effect characterizes superfluids and superconductors separated by a weak link, the so-called Josephson junction. A recent experiment has shown that Josephson oscillations can be observed also in a supersolid, where the weak…

We study diffusive magnetic Josephson junctions with four superconducting terminals in the weak proximity limit where the leads are arranged in cross form. Employing the linearized Keldysh-Usadel technique, the anomalous Green's function…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-04-23 Mohammad Alidoust , Granville Sewell , Jacob Linder

We study superconducting transport in homogeneous wires in the cases of both equilibrium and nonequilibrium quasiparticle populations, using the quasiclassical Green's function technique. We consider superconductors with arbitrary current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Sánchez-Cañizares , F. Sols

Power generation and synchronisation in Josephson junction arrays have attracted attention for a long time. This stems from fundamental interest in nonlinear coupled systems as well as from potential in practical applications. In this paper…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Hassel , L. Gronberg , P. Helisto , H. Seppa

The Josephson effect is a fundamental quantum phenomenon consisting in the appearance of a dissipationless supercurrent in a weak link between two superconducting (S) electrodes. While the mechanism leading to the Josephson effect is quite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-13 J. Paajaste , E. Strambini , M. Amado , S. Roddaro , P. San-Jose , R. Aguado , F. S. Bergeret , D. Ercolani , L. Sorba , F. Giazotto

We consider a planar SIS-type Josephson junction between diffusive superconductors (S) through an insulating tunnel interface (I). We construct fully self-consistent perturbation theory with respect to the interface conductance. As a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-15 A. S. Osin , Ya. V. Fominov

Nonequilibrium effects created by stationary current injection in layered d-wave superconductors forming a stack of intrinsic Josephson junctions are studied. Starting from a nonequilibrium Green function theory we derive microscopic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Keller , D. A. Ryndyk

The stationary Josephson effect in a system of ballistic graphene is studied in the framework of quasiclassical Green's function theory. Reflecting the ultimate two-dimensionality of graphene, a Josephson junction involving a graphene sheet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-24 Yositake Takane , Ken-Ichiro Imura

We investigate superconductor/insulator/ferromagnet/superconductor (SIFS) tunnel Josephson junctions in the dirty limit, using the quasiclassical theory. We formulate a quantitative model describing the oscillations of critical current as a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-01-04 A. S. Vasenko , A. A. Golubov , M. Yu. Kupriyanov , M. Weides

By measuring the Josephson emission of a diffusive Superconductor-Normal metal-Superconductor (SNS) junction at a finite temperature we reveal a non-trivial sensitivity of the supercurrent to microwave irradiation. We demonstrate that the…

A Josephson tunnel junction transistor based on quasiparticle injection is proposed. Its operation relies on the manipulation of the electron distribution in one of the junction electrodes. This is accomplished by injecting quasiparticle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-07-12 F. Giazotto , J. P. Pekola

Semiconductor-based Josephson junctions provide a platform for studying proximity effect due to the possibility of tuning junction properties by gate voltage and large-scale fabrication of complex Josephson circuits. Recently Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 William Mayer , Joseph Yuan , Kaushini Wickramasinghe , Tri Nguyen , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , Javad Shabani

Quasiclassical Green's functions of a short superconductor/normal metal/superconductor (SNS) junction are calculated for multi-mode junction with arbitrary electron transmission properties. They provide the basis for description of all of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. V. Averin

We describe in this paper how the nonlinear Josephson inductance is the crucial circuit element for all Josephson qubits. We discuss the three types of qubit circuits, and show how these circuits use this nonlinearity in unique manners. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 John M. Martinis , Kevin Osborne