Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

Multi-terminal Josephson junctions as topological matter

  • Roman-Pascal Riwar,
  • Manuel Houzet,
  • Julia S. Meyer,
  • Yuli V. Nazarov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11167
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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Materials with topologically nontrivial band structures possess exotic electronic transport properties however they are naturally constrained below three dimensions. Here, the authors demonstrate how analogous systems with n−1 dimensions may be constructed from Josephson junctions of n-terminals.