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Josephson Current in Rashba-based Superconducting Nanowires with Geometric Misalignment

Superconductivity 2018-03-22 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We investigate the properties of a weak link between two Rashba-based superconducting nanowires with geometric misalignment. By applying an external magnetic field the system can be driven into a topological non-trivial regime. We demonstrate that the Josephson current can be modulated in amplitude and sign through the variation of the applied field and, remarkably, via the angle controlling the spin-orbit locking mismatch at the interface of the nanowires. The proposed setup with misaligned coplanar nanowires provides the building block configuration for the manipulation of coherent transport via geometric-controlled mixing/splitting of interface states.

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@article{arxiv.1803.07900,
  title  = {Josephson Current in Rashba-based Superconducting Nanowires with Geometric Misalignment},
  author = {Zu-Jian Ying and Mario Cuoco and Paola Gentile and Carmine Ortix},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.07900},
  year   = {2018}
}
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