Anomalous Low-Temperature Enhancement of Supercurrent in Topological-Insulator Nanoribbon Josephson Junctions: Evidence for Low-Energy Andreev Bound States.

We report anomalous enhancement of the critical current at low temperatures in gate-tunable Josephson junctions made from topological insulator BiSbTeSe_{2} nanoribbons with superconducting Nb electrodes. In contrast to conventional junctions, as a function of the decreasing temperature T, the increasing critical current I_{c} exhibits a sharp upturn at a temperature T_{*} around 20% of the junction critical temperature for several different samples and various gate voltages. The I_{c} vs T demonstrates a short junction behavior for T>T_{*}, but crosses over to a long junction behavior for T