DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Supercurrent Flow in Multiterminal Graphene Josephson Junctions

Abstract

We investigate the electronic properties of ballistic planar Josephson junctions with multiple super- conducting terminals. Our devices consist of monolayer graphene encapsulated in boron nitride with molybdenum- rhenium contacts. Resistance measurements yield multiple resonant features, which are attributed to supercurrent flow among adjacent and nonadjacent Josephson junctions. In particular, we find that superconducting and dissipative currents coexist within the same region of graphene. We show that the presence of dissipative currents primarily results in electron heating and estimate the associated temperature rise. We find that the electrons in encapsulated graphene are efficiently cooled through the electron-phonon coupling.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3];  [4]; ORCiD logo [5];  [2];  [1]
  1. Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)
  2. Appalachian State Univ., Boone, NC (United States)
  3. National Inst. for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba (Japan). Advanced Materials Lab.
  4. National Inst. for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba (Japan). Advanced Materials Lab.
  5. City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon (Hong Kong)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1737514
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0002765
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nano Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 19; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher:
American Chemical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Graphene; Josephson junctions; superconductivity; ballistic Josephson junctions; multiterminal current flow; electron−phonon coupling

Citation Formats

Draelos, Anne W., Wei, Ming-Tso, Seredinski, Andrew, Li, Hengming, Mehta, Yash, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Borzenets, Ivan V., Amet, François, and Finkelstein, Gleb. Supercurrent Flow in Multiterminal Graphene Josephson Junctions. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b04330.
Draelos, Anne W., Wei, Ming-Tso, Seredinski, Andrew, Li, Hengming, Mehta, Yash, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Borzenets, Ivan V., Amet, François, & Finkelstein, Gleb. Supercurrent Flow in Multiterminal Graphene Josephson Junctions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b04330
Draelos, Anne W., Wei, Ming-Tso, Seredinski, Andrew, Li, Hengming, Mehta, Yash, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Borzenets, Ivan V., Amet, François, and Finkelstein, Gleb. Tue . "Supercurrent Flow in Multiterminal Graphene Josephson Junctions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b04330. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1737514.
@article{osti_1737514,
title = {Supercurrent Flow in Multiterminal Graphene Josephson Junctions},
author = {Draelos, Anne W. and Wei, Ming-Tso and Seredinski, Andrew and Li, Hengming and Mehta, Yash and Watanabe, Kenji and Taniguchi, Takashi and Borzenets, Ivan V. and Amet, François and Finkelstein, Gleb},
abstractNote = {We investigate the electronic properties of ballistic planar Josephson junctions with multiple super- conducting terminals. Our devices consist of monolayer graphene encapsulated in boron nitride with molybdenum- rhenium contacts. Resistance measurements yield multiple resonant features, which are attributed to supercurrent flow among adjacent and nonadjacent Josephson junctions. In particular, we find that superconducting and dissipative currents coexist within the same region of graphene. We show that the presence of dissipative currents primarily results in electron heating and estimate the associated temperature rise. We find that the electrons in encapsulated graphene are efficiently cooled through the electron-phonon coupling.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b04330},
journal = {Nano Letters},
number = 2,
volume = 19,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 08 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Tue Jan 08 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}

Journal Article:
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record

Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 42 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

Save / Share:

Works referenced in this record:

Production of Nonlocal Quartets and Phase-Sensitive Entanglement in a Superconducting Beam Splitter
journal, June 2011


Topological transconductance quantization in a four-terminal Josephson junction
journal, February 2017


Phase-Coherent Transport in Graphene Quantum Billiards
journal, September 2007


Ballistic Josephson junctions in edge-contacted graphene
journal, July 2015


Topological Andreev bands in three-terminal Josephson junctions
journal, October 2017


Nonlocal supercurrent of quartets in a three-terminal Josephson junction
journal, June 2018

  • Cohen, Yonatan; Ronen, Yuval; Kang, Jung-Hyun
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 115, Issue 27
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1800044115

Supercurrent in the quantum Hall regime
journal, May 2016


Resonant electron-lattice cooling in graphene
journal, June 2018


Multi-terminal Josephson junctions as topological matter
journal, April 2016

  • Riwar, Roman-Pascal; Houzet, Manuel; Meyer, Julia S.
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 7, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11167

Electron-phonon cooling in large monolayer graphene devices
journal, February 2016

  • McKitterick, Christopher B.; Prober, Daniel E.; Rooks, Michael J.
  • Physical Review B, Vol. 93, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.075410

Spatially resolved edge currents and guided-wave electronic states in graphene
journal, November 2015

  • Allen, M. T.; Shtanko, O.; Fulga, I. C.
  • Nature Physics, Vol. 12, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1038/nphys3534

Reversing the direction of the supercurrent in a controllable Josephson junction
journal, January 1999

  • Baselmans, J. J. A.; Morpurgo, A. F.; van Wees, B. J.
  • Nature, Vol. 397, Issue 6714
  • DOI: 10.1038/16204

Signatures of evanescent transport in ballistic suspended graphene-superconductor junctions
journal, April 2016

  • Kumaravadivel, Piranavan; Du, Xu
  • Scientific Reports, Vol. 6, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/srep24274

Stationary Josephson effect in a short multiterminal junction
journal, January 2013


Quantum oscillations of the critical current and high-field superconducting proximity in ballistic graphene
journal, December 2015

  • Ben Shalom, M.; Zhu, M. J.; Fal’ko, V. I.
  • Nature Physics, Vol. 12, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1038/nphys3592

The ω-SQUIPT as a tool to phase-engineer Josephson topological materials
journal, September 2016

  • Strambini, E.; D'Ambrosio, S.; Vischi, F.
  • Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 11, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2016.157

Bipolar supercurrent in graphene
journal, March 2007

  • Heersche, Hubert B.; Jarillo-Herrero, Pablo; Oostinga, Jeroen B.
  • Nature, Vol. 446, Issue 7131
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature05555

One-Dimensional Electrical Contact to a Two-Dimensional Material
journal, October 2013


Josephson current and multiple Andreev reflections in graphene SNS junctions
journal, May 2008


Subgap structure in the conductance of a three-terminal Josephson junction
journal, August 2014


Tailoring Josephson Coupling through Superconductivity-Induced Nonequilibrium
journal, March 2004


Multipair dc Josephson resonances in a biased all-superconducting bijunction
journal, June 2013


Ballistic four-terminal Josephson junction: bistable states and magnetic flux transfer
journal, August 2000


Coherent transport properties of a three-terminal hybrid superconducting interferometer
journal, February 2017


Phonon Bottleneck in Graphene-Based Josephson Junctions at Millikelvin Temperatures
journal, July 2013


Tunable supercurrent in superconductor/normal metal/superconductor Josephson junctions
journal, May 1999

  • Baselmans, J. J. A.; Morpurgo, A. F.; van Wees, B. J.
  • Superlattices and Microstructures, Vol. 25, Issue 5-6
  • DOI: 10.1006/spmi.1999.0720

Mesoscopic multiterminal Josephson structures. I. Effects of nonlocal weak coupling
journal, August 2001

  • Amin, M. H. S.; Omelyanchouk, A. N.; Zagoskin, A. M.
  • Low Temperature Physics, Vol. 27, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.1399198

Supercollision cooling in undoped graphene
journal, December 2012

  • Betz, A. C.; Jhang, S. H.; Pallecchi, E.
  • Nature Physics, Vol. 9, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1038/nphys2494

Hot electron tunable supercurrent
journal, February 1998

  • Morpurgo, A. F.; Klapwijk, T. M.; van Wees, B. J.
  • Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 72, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.120612

Origin of Hysteresis in a Proximity Josephson Junction
journal, August 2008


Energy relaxation in graphene and its measurement with supercurrent
journal, July 2011


Ballistic Graphene Josephson Junctions from the Short to the Long Junction Regimes
journal, December 2016


Works referencing / citing this record:

Engineering the Floquet spectrum of superconducting multiterminal quantum dots
journal, July 2019


Topological phase diagram of a three-terminal Josephson junction: From the conventional to the Majorana regime
text, January 2019


Fine energy splitting of overlapping Andreev bound states in multiterminal superconducting nanostructures
journal, October 2019


Topological phase diagram of a three-terminal Josephson junction: From the conventional to the Majorana regime
journal, July 2019


Andreev reflection in ballistic normal metal/graphene/superconductor junctions
journal, October 2019


Engineering the Floquet spectrum of superconducting multiterminal quantum dots
text, January 2019


Engineering the Floquet spectrum of superconducting multiterminal quantum dots
text, January 2019


Andreev reflection in ballistic normal metal/graphene/superconductor junctions
journal, October 2019