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In this work, we briefly overview various options for Josephson junctions which should be scalable down to nanometer range for utilization in nanoscale digital superconducting technology. Such junctions should possess high values of…

Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid nanowires are a leading material platform for the realization of Majorana zero modes. The semiconductors in previous studies are dominantly InAs or InSb. In this work, we show the induced…

We report on the switching current distributions in nano-hybrid Josephson junctions made of InAs semiconductor nanowires. Temperature dependence of the switching current distribution can be understood by motion of Josephson phase particle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-17 Bum-Kyu Kim , Yong-Joo Doh

In this work we show that a tunable coupling between microwave resonators can be engineered by means of simple Josephson junctions circuits, such as dc- and rf-SQUIDs. We show that by controlling the time dependence of the coupling it is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-10 B. Peropadre , D. Zueco , F. Wulschner , F. Deppe , A. Marx , R. Gross , J. J. García-Ripoll

Hybrid superconductor/semiconductor devices constitute a powerful platform to investigate the emergence of new topological state of matter. Among all possible semiconductor materials, InAs represents a promising choice, owing to its high…

We study the superconducting proximity effect in an InAs nanowire contacted by Ta-based superconducting electrodes. Using local bottom gates, we control the potential landscape along the nanowire, tuning its conductance to a quasi-ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 J. C. Estrada Saldaña , R. Žitko , J. P. Cleuziou , E. J. H. Lee , V. Zannier , D. Ercolani , L. Sorba , R. Aguado , S. De Franceschi

We analyze the transport through a narrow ballistic superconductor-normal- metal-superconductor Josephson contact with non-ideal transmission at the superconductor-normal-metal interfaces, e.g., due to insulating layers, effective mass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Kuhn , N. M. Chtchelkatchev , G. B. Lesovik , G. Blatter

Short ballistic graphene Josephson junctions sustain superconducting current with a non-sinusoidal current-phase relation up to a critical current threshold. The current-phase relation, arising from proximitized superconductivity, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-09 Francesco M. D. Pellegrino , Giuseppe Falci , Elisabetta Paladino

Superconducting diodes, characterized by the nonreciprocal supercurrent flow, have gained significant attention for their potential in dissipationless electronics. This study presents a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-28 Xingjun Wu , Ji-Yin Wang , Haitian Su , Shili Yan , Dong Pan , Jianhua Zhao , Po Zhang , H. Q. Xu

The Josephson supercurrent in a Nb-InAs nanowire-Nb junction was studied experimentally. The nanowire goes superconducting due to the proximity effect, and can sustain a phase coherent supercurrent. An unexpected modulation of the junction…

Superconducting nanowires are the dual elements to Josephson junctions, with quantum phase-slip processes replacing the tunneling of Cooper pairs. When the quantum phase-slip amplitude ES is much smaller than the inductive energy EL, the…

Quantum behavior of superconducting nanowires may essentially depend on the employed experimental setup. Here we investigate a setup that enables passing equilibrium supercurrent across an arbitrary segment of the wire without restricting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Alexey Radkevich , Andrew G. Semenov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We use a Ge-Si core-shell nanowire to realise a Josephson field-effect transistor with highly transparent contacts to superconducting leads. By changing the electric field we gain access to two distinct regimes not combined before in a…

Superconductor-semiconductor nanowire hybrid structures are useful in fabricating devices for quantum information processing. While selective area growth (SAG) offers the flexibility to grow semiconductor nanowires in arbitrary geometries,…

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

Three-dimensional topological Dirac semimetals have recently gained significant attention, since they possess exotic quantum states. When constructing Josephson junctions utilizing these materials as the weak link, the fractional ac…

More and more materials, with a growing variety of properties, are built into electronic devices. This is motivated both by increased device performance and by the studies of materials themselves. An important type of device is a Josephson…

Semiconducting diode with nonreciprocal transport effect underlies the cornerstone of contemporary integrated circuits (ICs) technology. Due to isotropic superconducting properties and the lack of breaking of inversion symmetry for…

Semiconductor nanowires have emerged as versatile components in superconducting hybrid devices for Majorana physics and quantum computing. The transport properties of nanowires can be tuned either by field-effect or doping. We investigated…

We present an extensive experimental and theoretical study of the proximity effect in InAs nanowires connected to superconducting electrodes. We fabricate and investigate devices with suspended gate-controlled nanowires and nonsuspended…