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Magneto-electric coupling in a two-dimensional ballistic Josephson junction with in-plane magnetic texture

Superconductivity 2014-08-21 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We study a Josephson junction made with a spin-textured bridge, when both Rashba and Zeeman interactions combine to generate a magneto-electric coupling between the superconducting current and the in-plane magnetic texture in the normal region. In particular, we unambiguously obtain the so-called anomalous current-phase relation j=jcsinφ+jacosφj=j_{c}\sin\varphi+j_{a}\cos\varphi in a two-dimensional ballistic Josephson junction close to the critical temperature of the heterostructure, when an anomalous current ja0j_{a}\neq0 subsists even at zero phase-difference between the superconductors, and is responsible for the coupling between the magnetic and electric degrees of freedom of the junction. The anomalous magneto-electric current is due to the combination of the chirality of the propagating modes and the anisotropy of the in-plane magnetic texture.

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@article{arxiv.1408.4533,
  title  = {Magneto-electric coupling in a two-dimensional ballistic Josephson junction with in-plane magnetic texture},
  author = {François Konschelle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.4533},
  year   = {2014}
}