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Spin Josephson effect with a single superconductor

Superconductivity 2015-03-17 v2

Abstract

A thin ferromagnetic layer on a bulk equal-spin-pairing triplet superconductor is shown to mediate a Josephson coupling between the spin \uparrow and \downarrow condensates of the superconductor. By deriving analytic expressions for the bound states at the triplet superconductor-ferromagnet interface, we show that this spin Josephson effect establishes an effective anisotropy axis in the ferromagnetic layer. The associated Josephson spin current is predicted to cause a measurable precession of the magnetization about the vector order parameter of the triplet superconductor.

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@article{arxiv.1010.4238,
  title  = {Spin Josephson effect with a single superconductor},
  author = {P. M. R. Brydon and Yasuhiro Asano and Carsten Timm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.4238},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures, references added, published version

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