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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 diode effect (SDE) is a magneto-electric phenomenon where an external magnetic field imparts a non-zero center-of-mass momentum to Cooper pairs, either facilitating or hindering the flow of supercurrent depending on its…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-18 Benedikt Scharf , Denis Kochan , Alex Matos-Abiague

The paper develops the theory of the ballistic SNS sandwich, in which the Josephson effect exists without the proximity effect. The theory takes into account restrictions imposed by the charge conservation law and the incommensurability of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-15 Edouard B. Sonin

We have developed a microscopic theory of ac Josephson effect in short ballistic superconducting constrictions with arbitrary electron transparency and in constrictions with diffusive electron transport. The theory is valid for arbitrary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 A. V. Zaitsev , D. V. Averin

Conductance of metallic heterostructures can be controlled by applying a gate voltage to a region in the transport channel. For sufficiently long phase coherent channels, oscillations appear in conductance versus chemical potential plot,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-28 Sushil Kumar Sahu , Abhiram Soori

We consider Josephson junctions formed by coupling two conventional superconductors via an unconventional magnet and investigate the formation of Andreev bound states, their impact on the Josephson effect, and the emergent superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-25 Yuri Fukaya , Kazuki Maeda , Keiji Yada , Jorge Cayao , Yukio Tanaka , Bo Lu

The recent discovery of intrinsic supercurrent diode effect, and its prompt observation in a rich variety of systems, has shown that nonreciprocal supercurrents naturally emerge when both space- and time-inversion symmetries are broken. In…

While Josephson junctions can be viewed as highly non-linear impedances for superconducting quantum technologies, they also possess internal dynamics that may strongly affect their behavior. Here, we construct a computational framework that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-29 Benoit Rossignol , Thomas Kloss , Xavier Waintal

Quasiperiodicity has recently been proposed to enhance superconductivity and its proximity effect. At the same time, there has been significant experimental progress in the fabrication of quasiperiodic structures, also in reduced…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-27 Anna Sandberg , Oladunjoye A. Awoga , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Patric Holmvall

We theoretically analyze the Andreev bound states and their coupling to external radiation in superconductor-nanowire-superconductor Josephson junctions. We provide an effective Hamiltonian for the junction projected onto the Andreev level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-18 Sunghun Park , A. Levy Yeyati

We consider the charge and spin effects in low dimensional superconducting weak links. The first part of the review deals with the effects of electron-electron interaction in Superconductor/Luttinger liquid/Superconductor junctions. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Ilya V. Krive , Sergei I. Kulinich , Robert I. Shekhter , Mats Jonson

We investigate ac Josephson effects between two superconductors connected by a single-mode quantum point contact, where the gap amplitudes in the two superconductors are unequal. In these systems, it was found in previous studies on the dc…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Shin-Tza Wu , Sungkit Yip

We extend the circuit theory of superconductivity to cover transport and proximity effect in mesoscopic systems that contain unconventional superconductor junctions. The approach fully accounts for zero-energy Andreev bound states forming…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Tanaka , Yu. V. Nazarov , S. Kashiwaya

We study coherent multiple Andreev reflections in quantum SNS junctions of finite length and arbitrary transparency. The presence of superconducting bound states in these junctions gives rise to great enhancement of the subgap current. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Å. Ingerman , G. Johansson , V. S. Shumeiko , G. Wendin

The first evidence of anomalous Josephson effect is reported in mesoscopic superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) junctions forming a crosslike Andreev Interferometer in the absence of magnetic and spin-orbit interactions normally…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-02 D. Margineda , J. S. Claydon , F. Qejvanaj , C. Checkley

The formation of bound states at surfaces of materials with an energy gap in the bulk electron spectrum is a well known physical phenomenon. At superconductor surfaces, quasiparticles with energies inside the superconducting gap $\Delta$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Lofwander , V. S. Shumeiko , G. Wendin

We study fractional Josephson effect in a particle-number conserving system consisting of a quasi-one-dimensional superconductor coupled to a nanowire or an edge carrying $e/m$ fractional charge excitations with $m$ being an odd integer. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Meng Cheng , Roman M. Lutchyn

The Josephson Effect and Superconducting Proximity Effect were observed in Superconductor -Graphene-Superconductor (SGS) Josephson junctions with coherence lengths comparable to the distance between the superconducting leads. By comparing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Eva Y. Andrei

We consider normal-superconductor (NS) and superconductor-normal-superconductor (SNS) junctions based on one-dimensional nanowires with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and proximity-induced $s$-wave spin-singlet superconductivity and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-28 Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We study theoretically the ac Josephson effect in superconducting planar d-wave junctions. The insulating barrier assumed to be present between the two superconductors may have arbitrary strength. Many properties of this system depend on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Magnus Hurd , Tomas Lofwander , Goran Johansson , Goran Wendin