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Josephson effect in spin-singlet superconductor/ferromagnetic insulator/spin-triplet superconductor junctions with helical $p$-wave states

Superconductivity 2016-08-01 v1

Abstract

We study the Josephson effect in spin-singlet superconductor/helical pp-wave superconductor junctions with a ferromagnetic barrier using the quasiclassical Green function method. It is found that both sinϕ\sin{\phi}-type and cosϕ\cos{\phi}-type current-phase relations always exist, irrespective of the gap symmetries in superconductors. The indispensable condition for the sinϕ\sin{\phi}-type and cosϕ\cos{\phi}-type current is that the magnetization must have a component parallel to the crystallographic aa or bb axis, which is distinct from the case of pp-wave superconductor described by a \vectd\vect{d}-vector with a uniform direction. The relation between the condition and the symmetries of the gap functions is analysed. We investigate in detail the symmetries and the sign reversal of the Josephson current when the magnetization is rotated.

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@article{arxiv.1607.08789,
  title  = {Josephson effect in spin-singlet superconductor/ferromagnetic insulator/spin-triplet superconductor junctions with helical $p$-wave states},
  author = {Qiang Cheng and Biao Jin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.08789},
  year   = {2016}
}

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9 pages,7 figures