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Josephson versus Andreev: what can we do with only tunnel junction circuits?
Anton Akhmerov, Quantum Tinkerer group, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Neatherlands
May 26th, 2022, 12:00 CEST
Hybrid devices combining superconducting physics with the tunability of mesoscopic semiconductors allow to realize a plethora of physical phenomena. This comes at the price of needing to precisely control the microscopic electronic behavior. I will focus on two loosely related phenomena, that can be realized in hybrid multiterminal Josephson junctions, and that are a subject of ongoing experimental search: topological energy-phase relationships, and supercurrent of charge 4e particles—Cooper quartets. Instead of the known hybrid implementation, I will demonstrate how to realize these phenomena by using conventional Josephson junctions as a building block. This simpler approach demonstrates previously overlooked physics of Josephson circuits, and paves the way towards the experimental observation of these phenomena.
