Seminar on Condensed Matter Theory
Group of Theoretical Physics at the Department of Condensed Matter Physics
of Charles University has a pleasure to invite you to attend the seminar
on 2nd July 2026 at 13:00
at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University, Ke Karlovu 5, 121 16 Praha 2
Seminar room F 052
MSc Gleb Seleznev
University of Konstanz
Finite-Temperature Transconductance of Multiterminal Josephson Junctions with Topological Andreev Spectra
MSc Gleb Seleznev » Finite-Temperature Transconductance of Multiterminal Josephson Junctions with Topological Andreev Spectra
University of Konstanz
Please be aware that the talk will start at 13:00 sharp.
Location: Ke Karlovu 5, Lecture room F2
In recent years, multiterminal Josephson junctions (MTJJs) have emerged as a convenient platform for exploring artificial topology. In these systems, the Andreev bound-state spectrum forms an artificial band structure in synthetic dimensions defined by the superconducting phase differences
between the leads. In particular, Andreev bound states (ABS) can acquire nonzero Chern numbers, which manifest themselves at zero temperature in quantized transconductance between two distinct superconducting leads. However, realistic experiments are performed at finite temperature, which can obscure this quantization. We address this problem theoretically by calculating the finite-temperature transconductance of MTJJs with topological Andreev spectra. We show that finite temperature suppresses the contribution of topological ABS with energies comparable to the temperature, leading to a violation of transconductance quantization. At the same time, we predict that finite-temperature transconductance measurements can reveal topological crossings of ABS at finite energies, which are inaccessible in zero-temperature transconductance measurements.

