Phase-coherent caloritronics with ordinary and topological Josephson junctions

We provide a brief and comprehensive overview over recent developments in the field of phase-coherent caloritronics in ordinary and topological Josephson junctions. We start from the simple case of a short, one-dimensional superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (S-N-S) Josephson junction and der...

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Veröffentlicht in:The European physical journal. ST, Special topics Special topics, 2020-02, Vol.229 (4), p.683-705
Hauptverfasser: Hwang, Sun-Yong, Sothmann, Björn
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We provide a brief and comprehensive overview over recent developments in the field of phase-coherent caloritronics in ordinary and topological Josephson junctions. We start from the simple case of a short, one-dimensional superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (S-N-S) Josephson junction and derive the phase-dependent thermal conductance within the Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism. Then, we review the key experimental breakthroughs that have triggered the recent growing interest into phase-coherent heat transport. They include the realization of thermal interferometers, diffractors, modulators and routers based on superconducting tunnel junctions. Finally, we discuss very recent theoretical findings based on superconductor-topological insulator-superconductor (S-TI-S) Josephson junctions that show interesting heat transport properties due to the interplay between topological band structures and superconductivity.
ISSN:1951-6355
1951-6401
DOI:10.1140/epjst/e2019-900094-y