The Josephson effect is generally described as Cooper-pair tunneling but it can also be understood in a more general context. The dc Josephson effect is the pseudo-Goldstone boson of two coupled systems with a broken continuous Abelian U 1 symmetry. Hence, an analog should exist for systems with broken continuous nonAbelian symmetries. To exhibit the generality of the phenomenon and make predic...

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The Josephson effect in p-wave superconductor/diffusive normal metal/p-wave superconductor junctions is studied theoretically. Amplitudes of Josephson currents are several orders of magnitude larger than those in s-wave junctions. Current-phase (J-phi) relations in low temperatures are close to those in ballistic junctions such as J proportional to sin(phi/2) and J proportional to phi even in t...

We solve the Dirac–Bogoliubov–de Gennes equation in an impurity-free superconductor–normal-metal– superconductor junction, to determine the maximal supercurrent Ic that can flow through an undoped strip of graphene with heavily doped superconducting electrodes. The result Ic W /L e 0 / is determined by the superconducting gap 0 and by the aspect ratio of the junction length L small relative to ...

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 and d-wave junctions and show a detailed numerical comparison with the phenomenological Sigrist and Rice relation [1] commonly used to interpret tunneling e...

The discovery of what we have ever since called the “Josephson effect” took place while I was visiting Cambridge, England, for a sabbatical year in 196162. R e c e n t l y , w h e n I t r a v e l l e d t o Kyoto to accept the London Prize on Brian Josephson’s behalf, I put together s o m e r e m i n i s c e n c e s o f t h a t period, which may be more interesting than a mere recapitulation of ...

The conventional Josephson effect may be modified by introducing spin-active scattering in the interfacelayer of the junction. Here, we discuss a Josephson junction consisting of two s-wave superconducting leads coupled over a classical spin that precesses with the Larmor frequency due to an external magnetic field. This magnetically active interface results in a time-dependent boundary conditi...

We study the ac Josephson effect in a superconductor-ferromagnet heterostructure with a variable magnetic configuration. The system supports triplet proximity correlations whose dynamics is coupled to the magnetic dynamics. This feedback dramatically modifies the behavior of the junction. The current-phase relation becomes double periodic at both very low and high Josephson frequencies omegaJ. ...