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Adiabatic phase pumping in S/F/S hybrids with non-coplanar magnetization

Superconductivity 2023-11-28 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We study the distinctive features of the phase pumping effect in Josephson transport through a three-layered ferromagnet F1_1/F/F2_2 with non-coplanar magnetization. Using Gor'kov and Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalisms we go beyond the quasiclassical approximation and analyze the dependence of the spontaneous Josephson phase ψ\psi on the exchange field hh in the F layer and details of magnetization profile. The pumping of the Josephson phase can be generated by the mutual rotation of magnetizations in F1_1 and F2_2 layers resulting in the nontrivial phase gain at the rotation period (Berry phase). The increase in hh is shown to cause changes in the topology of the phase evolution: the gain of the Josephson phase at the pumping period switches from 00 to 2π2\pi. We study the scenario of these switchings originating from the interplay between several competing local minima of the free energy of the junction versus the superconducting phase difference. Our analysis provides the basis for the search of experimental setup realizing the phase pumping phenomenon.

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@article{arxiv.2311.15577,
  title  = {Adiabatic phase pumping in S/F/S hybrids with non-coplanar magnetization},
  author = {A. A. Kopasov and Zh. Devizorova and H. Meng and S. V. Mironov and A. S. Mel'nikov and A. I. Buzdin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.15577},
  year   = {2023}
}

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16 pages, 9 figures