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We perform microscopic numerical simulations of the Josephson effect through short junctions between two full-shell hybrid nanowires, comprised of a semiconductor core fully wrapped by a thin superconductor shell, both in the trivial and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Carlos Payá , Ramón Aguado , Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada

Remarkably, complex assemblies of superconducting wires, electrodes, and Josephson junctions are compactly described by a handful of collective phase degrees of freedom that behave like quantum particles in a potential. The inductive wires…

We consider the non-Fermi liquid quantum critical state of the spin-S two-impurity Kondo model, and its potential realization in a quantum dot device. Using conformal field theory (CFT) and the numerical renormalization group (NRG), we show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-28 Andrew K. Mitchell , Eran Sela , David E. Logan

We study the electronic transport in a double quantum dot structure connected to leads in the Kondo regime for both series and parallel arrangements. By applying a finite-U slave boson technique in the mean field approximation we explore…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Vernek , N. Sandler , S. E. Ulloa , E. V. Anda

A stationary Josephson effect in point contacts between triplet superconductors is analyzed theoretically for most probable models of the order parameter in UPt_{3} and Sr_{2}RuO_{4}. The consequence of misorientation of crystals in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-07-26 R. Mahmoodi , S. N. Shevchenko , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko

Josephson junctions enable dissipation-less electrical current through metals and insulators below a critical current. Despite being central to quantum technology based on superconducting quantum bits and fundamental research into…

The fractional Josephson effect has been observed in many instances as a signature of a topological superconducting state containing zero-energy Majorana modes. We present a nontopological scenario which can produce a fractional Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Jay D. Sau , F. Setiawan

Multiple systems hosting Andreev molecular states have been proposed and studied, consisting of closely spaced Josephson junctions modeled as ballistic channels. We show that replacing the ballistic channels in the weak link of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Mátyás Kocsis , Zoltán Scherübl , Gergő Fülöp , Péter Makk , Szabolcs Csonka

We demonstrate that in diffusive superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor (S/F/S) junctions a finite, {\it anomalous}, Josephson current can flow even at zero phase difference between the S electrodes. The conditions for the observation of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-16 M. A. Silaev , I. V. Tokatly , F. S. Bergeret

Supercurrent transport is experimentally studied in a Josephson junction hosting a double quantum dot (DQD) with tunable symmetries. The QDs are parallel-coupled to two superconducting contacts and can be tuned between strong inter-dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Rousan Debbarma , Markus Aspegren , Florinda Viñas Boström , Sebastian Lehmann , Kimberly Dick , Claes Thelander

A non-equilibrium state in a Rashba system under an in-plane magnetic field is identified as the origin of the Josephson diode effect. This state is induced by a current bias--necessary for measuring the current-voltage…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-06 Michiyasu Mori , Wataru Koshibae , Sadamichi Maekawa

We study theoretically the large variations of the supercurrent through a normal dot that are induced by a small quasiparticle injection current from normal leads connected to the dot. We find that the supercurrent decomposes into a subgap…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-07 Sarath Sankar , Julia S. Meyer , Manuel Houzet

We present the results of a Wilson Renormalization Group study of the single-impurity Kondo and Anderson models in a system with a gap in the conduction electron spectrum. The behavior of the impurity susceptibility and the zero-frequency…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Kan Chen , C. Jayaprakash

In a quantum dot hybrid superconducting junction, the behavior of the supercurrent is dominated by Coulomb blockade physics, which determines the magnetic state of the dot. In particular, in a single level quantum dot singly occupied, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-25 R. Delagrange , R. Weil , A. Kasumov , M. Ferrier , H. Bouchiat , R. Deblock

The quantum mechanics of the Josephson effect is the core ingredient for quantum technologies with superconducting circuits. A new avenue was recently opened in this field by predicting that the Josephson quantum mechanics in the odd parity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer , Yuli V. Nazarov

We study the low-temperature transport properties of the systems of parallel quantum dots described by the N-impurity Anderson model. We calculate the quasiparticle scattering phase shifts, spectral functions and correlations as a function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-05 Rok Zitko , Janez Bonca

In this article, we study the quantum transport through a single-level quantum-dot in Kondo regime, coupled to current leads and embedded between two one-dimensional topological superconductors, each hosting Majorana zero modes at their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 G. A. Lara , J. P. Ramos-Andrade , D. Zambrano , P. A. Orellana

In the two-impurity Anderson model, the inter-impurity spin exchange interaction favors a spin singlet state between two impurities leading to the breakdown of the Kondo effect. We show that a local uniform magnetic field can delocalize the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-30 Lijun Zhu , Jian-Xin Zhu

Irradiating a Josephson junction with microwaves can operate not only on the amplitude but also on the phase of the Josephson current. This requires breaking time inversion symmetry, which is achieved by introducing a phase lapse between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 B. Venitucci , D. Feinberg , R. Mélin , B. Douçot

We determine the phase diagram of an Anderson impurity in contact with superconducting and normal-state leads for arbitrary ratio of the gap $\Delta$ to the Kondo temperature $T_K$. We observe a considerable effect of even very weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 Rok Zitko , Jong Soo Lim , Rosa Lopez , Ramon Aguado