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We investigate the transport properties of a one-dimensional superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (S-N-S) system described within the tight-binding approximation. We compute the equilibrium dc Josephson current and the time-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Enrico Perfetto , Gianluca Stefanucci , Michele Cini

We investigate the Josephson radiation emitted by a junction made of a quantum dot coupled to two conventional superconductors. Close to resonance, the particle-hole symmetric Andreev states that form in the junction are detached from the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-08-05 Baptiste Lamic , Julia S. Meyer , Manuel Houzet

We develop a fully covariant, analytic framework for Josephson phenomena in static curved spacetimes and specialize it to the Schwarzschild exterior. The formulation rests on two invariant elements: the gauge-invariant condensate momentum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-10 Reggie C. Pantig , Ali Övgün

We investigate electronic transport in Josephson junctions formed by single-walled carbon nanotubes coupled to superconducting electrodes. We observe enhanced zero-bias conductance (up to 10e^2/h) and pronounced sub-harmonic gap structures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-24 Y. Zhang , G. Liu , C. N. Lau

We propose a new platform for observing the Josephson diode effect: the Andreev molecule. This nonlocal electronic state is hosted in circuits made of two closely spaced Josephson junctions, through the hybridization of the Andreev states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-22 J. -D. Pillet , S. Annabi , A. Peugeot , H. Riechert , E. Arrighi , J. Griesmar , L. Bretheau

We study narrow ballistic Josephson weak links in a InAs quantum wells contacted by Nb electrodes and find a dramatic magnetic-field suppression of the Andreev reflection amplitude, which occurs even for in-plane field orientation with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-04 F. Rohlfing , G. Tkachov , F. Otto , K. Richter , D. Weiss , G. Borghs , C. Strunk

Superconductivity derives its most salient features from the coherence of its macroscopic wave function. The associated physical phenomena have now moved from exotic subjects to fundamental building blocks for quantum circuits such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 Benoit Gaury , Joseph Weston , Xavier Waintal

We study the dc Josephson effect and the density of states in a multiterminal structure of cross-type geometry which consists of four superconducting electrodes connected by one-dimensional normal or ferromagnetic wires. We find that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-01-16 Sebastian Mai , Ervand Kandelaki , Anatoly Volkov , Konstantin Efetov

We study the Josephson current through a Luttinger liquid in contact with two superconductors. We show that it can be deduced from the Casimir energy in a two-boundary version of the sine-Gordon model. We develop a new thermodynamic Bethe…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-07-19 J. -S. Caux , H. Saleur , F. Siano

We analyze the dc Josephson effect in a ballistic superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor junction by means of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations in the quasiclassical Andreev approximation. We consider the possibility of ferromagnetism…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-20 Gaetano Annunziata , Henrik Enoksen , Jacob Linder , Mario Cuoco , Canio Noce , Asle Sudbø

We predict that the Josephson current in a clean s-wave superconductor-normal metal-d-wave superconductor junction is periodic in superconducting phase difference $\phi$ with period $\pi$ instead of $2\pi$. The frequency of non-stationary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 Alexandre M. Zagoskin

We show that a spin-polarized Landau level in a two-dimensional electron gas can carry a spin-triplet supercurrent between two spin-singlet superconductors. The supercurrent results from the interplay of Andreev reflection and Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-02 J. A. M. van Ostaay , A. R. Akhmerov , C. W. J. Beenakker

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

We study the Josephson effect in a superconductor/altermagnet/superconductor (S/AM/S) junction. We find anomalous phenomena including $0$-$\pi$ transition as well as multi-nodal current-phase relations. Similar to $d$-wave superconductor,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-02 Bo Lu , Kazuki Maeda , Hiroyuki Ito , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka

We present a method to identify distinct tunneling modes in tunable superconducting tunnel junction composed of superconducting tip and sample in scanning tunneling microscope. Combining the measurement of the relative decay constant of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-22 Wonhee Ko , Eugene F. Dumitrescu , Petro Maksymovych

The Josephson effect describes the flow of supercurrent in a weak link, such as a tunnel junction, nanowire, or molecule, between two superconductors. It is the basis for a variety of circuits and devices, with applications ranging from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-23 L. Bretheau , Ç. Ö. Girit , Hugues Pothier , D. Esteve , C. Urbina

We study the transport properties of a superconductor-quantum spin Hall insulator-superconductor (S-QSHI-S) hybrid system in the presence of a microwave radiation. Instead of adiabatic analysis or using the resistively shunted junction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 Yu-Hang Li , Jie Liu , Juntao Song , Hua Jiang , Qing-Feng Sun , X. C. Xie

The Josephson effect in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is an excellent tool to probe the properties of the superconducting order parameter on a local scale through the Ambegaokar-Baratoff (AB) relation. Using single atomic contacts…

We develop a detailed microscopic theory describing dc Josephson effect and Andreev bound states in superconducting junctions with a half-metal. In such systems the supercurrent is caused by triplet pairing states emerging due to spin-flip…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-03-29 Artem V. Galaktionov , Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

The ac Josephson effect in hybrid systems of a normal mesoscopic conductor coupled to two superconducting (S) leads is investigated theoretically. A general formula of the ac components of time-dependent current is derived which is valid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Qing-feng Sun , Hong Guo , Jian Wang