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The phenomenon of non-reciprocal critical current in a Josephson device, termed the Josephson diode effect, has garnered much recent interest. Realization of the diode effect requires inversion symmetry breaking, typically obtained by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Mohit Gupta , Gino V. Graziano , Mihir Pendharkar , Jason T. Dong , Connor P. Dempsey , Chris Palmstrøm , Vlad S. Pribiag

The DC Josephson effect is theoretically studied in a planar junction in which a two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) infinite in lateral directions is in contact with two superconducting electrodes placed on top of the 2DEG. An energy gap…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 A. F. Volkov , P. H. C. Magnée , B. J. van Wees , T. M. Klapwijk

Temperature dependent resistivity of the iron-based superconductor NdFeAsO0.88F0.12 was measured under different applied fields and excitation currents. Arrhenius plot shows an anomalous tail effect, which contains obvious two resistivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-07-12 Y. Sun , Y. Ding , J. C. Zhuang , L. J. Cui , X. P. Yuan , Z. X. Shi , Z. A. Ren

A quantitative analysis of a microscopic model for the intrinsic Josephson effect in high-temperature superconductors based on interlayer tunneling is presented. The pairing correlations in the CuO_2-planes are modelled by a 2-D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-02-03 O. Schmitt , H. Endres , W. Hanke , R. Kleiner , P. Mueller

The superconducting diode effect -- the dependence of critical current on its direction -- can arise from the simultaneous breaking of inversion and time-reversal symmetry in a superconductor and has gained interest for its potential…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-18 Haixuan Huang , Tatiana de Picoli , Jukka I. Väyrynen

We study mesoscopic fluctuations in the supercurrent of a Josephson junction consisting of a topological insulator microbridge between two conventional superconductors. In the model, we account for the strong proximity effect when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-02 Marcus Marinho , Guilherme Vieira , Tobias Micklitz , Georg Schwiete , Alex Levchenko

We demonstrate that the supercurrent can be strongly enhanced in cross-like superconducting hybrid nanostructures (X-junctions) exposed to a temperature gradient. At temperatures T exceeding the Thouless energy of our X-junction the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-08 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

Establishment of phase-coherence and a non-dissipative (super)current between two weakly coupled superconductors, known as the Josephson effect, plays a foundational role in basic physics and applications to metrology, precision sensing,…

The dc Josephson effect is considered from the thermodynamic point of view. Universal thermodynamic equations, relating both bound and continuum contributions to the Josephson current with the normal electron scattering amplitudes are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 A. Krichevsky , M. Schechter , Y. Imry , Y. Levinson

Contrary to the expected detrimental influence on superconductivity when applying a magnetic field, we predict that the abrupt onset of such a field can temporarily strongly enhance the superconducting order parameter. Specifically, we find…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-17 Eirik Holm Fyhn , Jacob Linder

An array of resistively and capacitively shunted Josephson junctions with nonsinusoidal current-phase relation is considered for modelling the transition in high-T$_c$ superconductors. The emergence of higher harmonics, besides the simple…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-01-04 A. Carbone , M. Gilli , P. Mazzetti , L. Ponta

In this paper we address several new developments in the theory of dc Josephson effect in superconducting weak links. We analyze an interplay between quantum interference effects and Andreev reflection in SNS nanojunctions with insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei D. Zaikin

Quantum fluctuations of the phases of the order parameter in 2D arrays of mesoscopic Josephson junctions and their effect on the destruction of superconductivity in the system are investigated by means of a quantum-cosine model that is free…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. I. Belousov , Yu. E. Lozovik

Nonlocal supercurrent was observed in mesoscopic planar SNS Josephson junction with additional normal metal electrodes when nonequilibrium quasiparticles were injected from the normal metal electrode in one of the superconducting banks of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-03-18 T. E. Golikova , M. J. Wolf , D. Beckmann , I. E. Batov , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , V. V. Ryazanov

Equations describing the resistive state of a layered superconductor with anisotropic pairing are derived. The similarity with a stack of Josephson junctions is found at small voltages only, when current density in the direction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 S. N. Artemenko , A. G. Kobelkov

We present a theory of the Josephson effect in a twofold-tilted Josephson junction made by d-wave anisotropic layered superconductors. We find the appearance of an intrinsic electrical resistance that arises from the misalignment of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-13 Ciro Nappi , Sergio De Nicola , Maria Adamo , Ettore Sarnelli

We develop a model for high-Tc superconductors based on an electronic phase separation where low-and high-density domains are formed. At low temperatures this system may act as a granular superconductor forming an array of Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-12 E. V. L. de Mello , David Möckli

In this letter we present a simple relation, that allows one to predict the Josephson current between two unconventional superconductors with arbitrary band-structure and pairing symmetry. We illustrate this relation with examples of s-wave…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 Supriyo Datta , Manoj P. Samanta

A stationary Josephson effect in a weak-link between misorientated nonunitary triplet superconductors is investigated theoretically. The non-self-consistent quasiclassical Eilenberger equation for this system has been solved analytically.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Rashedi , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko

The resistive transition of granular high-T$_c$ superconductors, characterized by either weak (YBCO-like) or strong (MgB$_2$-like) links, occurs through a series of avalanche-type current density rearrangements. These rearrangements…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 L. Ponta , A. Carbone , M. Gilli , P. Mazzetti