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Gate-controlled supercurrent reversal in MoS$_2$-based Josephson junctions

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2014-11-04 v2 Superconductivity

Abstract

Motivated by recent experiments revealing superconductivity in MoS2_2, we investigate the Josephson effect in the monolayer MoS2_2 at the presence of an exchange splitting. We show that the supercurrent reversal known as 0π0-\pi transition can occur by varying the doping via gate voltages. This is in contrast to common superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor junctions in which successive 0π0-\pi transition take place with the variation of junction length or temperature. In fact for the case of MoS2_2 we find that both the amplitude and the period of oscillations show a dependence on the doping which explains the predicted doping induced supercurrent reversal. These effects comes from the dependence of density and Fermi velocity on the doping strength beside the intrinsic spin splitting in the valence band which originates from spin-orbit interaction.

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@article{arxiv.1406.6801,
  title  = {Gate-controlled supercurrent reversal in MoS$_2$-based Josephson junctions},
  author = {Babak Zare Rameshti and Ali G. Moghaddam and Malek Zareyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.6801},
  year   = {2014}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures

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