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Josephson junction with magnetic-field tunable current-phase relation

Superconductivity 2014-11-11 v1

Abstract

We consider a 0-π\pi Josephson junction consisting of asymmetric 0 and π\pi regions of different lengths L0L_0 and LπL_\pi having different critical current densities jc,0j_{c,0} and jc,πj_{c,\pi}. If both segments are rather short, the whole junction can be described by an \emph{effective} current-phase relation for the spatially averaged phase ψ\psi, which includes the usual term sin(ψ)\propto\sin(\psi), a \emph{negative} second harmonic term sin(2ψ)\propto\sin(2\psi) as well as the unusual term Hcosψ\propto H \cos\psi tunable by magnetic field HH. Thus one obtains an electronically tunable current-phase relation. At H=0 this corresponds to the φ\varphi Josephson junction.

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@article{arxiv.1208.4057,
  title  = {Josephson junction with magnetic-field tunable current-phase relation},
  author = {A. Lipman and R. G. Mints and R. Kleiner and D. Koelle and E. Goldobin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.4057},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

extension of already published theory to the case of unequal critical current densities

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