Superconducting materials with non-centrosymmetric lattices lacking the space inversion symmetry are known to exhibit a variety of interesting parity-breaking phenomena, including the anomalous Josephson effect. Here we consider a Josephson junction consisting of two non-centrosymmetric superconductors (NCSs) connected by a uniaxial ferromagnet, and demonstrate that it exhibits a direct analog of the Chiral Magnetic Effect observed in Dirac and Weyl semimetals. We propose to use this "Chiral Magnetic Josephson junction" (CMJ junction) as an element of a qubit with a Hamiltonian tunable by the ferromagnet's magnetization. The CMJ junction allows to avoid the use of an offset magnetic flux in inductively shunted qubits, thus enabling a simpler and more robust architecture. The resulting"`chiral magnetic qubit" is protected from the noise caused by fluctuations in magnetization when the easy axis of the uniaxial ferromagnet is directed across the junction.
@article{arxiv.1908.00392,
title = {Chiral Magnetic Josephson junction: a base for low-noise superconducting qubits?},
author = {M. N. Chernodub and J. Garaud and D. E. Kharzeev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.00392},
year = {2019}
}