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Controlling charge and spin transport in an Ising-superconductor Josephson junction

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2022-01-03 v2 Superconductivity

Abstract

An in-plane magnetic field applied to an Ising superconductor converts spin-singlet Cooper pairs to spin-triplet ones. In this work, we study a Josephson junction formed by two Ising superconductors that are proximitized by ferromagnetic layers. This leads to highly tunable spin-triplet pairing correlations which allow to modulate the charge and spin supercurrents through the in-plane magnetic exchange fields. For a junction with a nonmagnetic barrier, the charge current is switchable by changing the relative alignment of the in-plane exchange fields, and a π\pi-state can be realized. Furthermore, the charge and spin current-phase relations display a ϕ0\phi_0-junction behavior for a strongly spin-polarized ferromagnetic barrier.

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@article{arxiv.2107.14259,
  title  = {Controlling charge and spin transport in an Ising-superconductor Josephson junction},
  author = {Gaomin Tang and Raffael L. Klees and Christoph Bruder and Wolfgang Belzig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.14259},
  year   = {2022}
}