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Magnetic resonance in a singlet-triplet Josephson junction

Superconductivity 2016-03-23 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We study a singlet-triplet Josephson junction between a conventional s-wave superconductor and an unconventional px_{\rm x}-wave superconductor. The Andreev spectrum of the junction yields a spontaneous magnetization in equilibrium. This allows manipulating the occupation of the Andreev levels using an ac Zeeman field. The induced Rabi oscillations manifest themselves as a resonance in the current-phase relation. For a circularly polarized magnetic field, we find a spin selection rule, yielding Rabi oscillations only in a certain interval of the superconducting phase difference.

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@article{arxiv.1509.00287,
  title  = {Magnetic resonance in a singlet-triplet Josephson junction},
  author = {Lars Elster and Manuel Houzet and Julia S. Meyer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.00287},
  year   = {2016}
}

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13 pages, 6 figures