Superconducting magnetoelectric effects in mesoscopic hybrid structures
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2024-12-09 v5 Superconductivity
Abstract
In superconductors that lack inversion symmetry, a supercurrent flow can lead to nondissipative magnetoelectric effects. We offer a straightforward formalism to obtain a supercurrent-induced magnetization in superconductors with broken inversion symmetry, which may have orbital, layer, sublattice, or valley degrees of freedom, multiband noncentrosymmetric superconductors. The nondissipative magnetoelectric effect may find applications in fabricating quantum computation platforms or efficient superconducting spintronic devices. We explore how the current-induced magnetization can be employed to create and manipulate Majorana zero modes in a simple hybrid structure.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2404.15553,
title = {Superconducting magnetoelectric effects in mesoscopic hybrid structures},
author = {Mostafa Tanhayi Ahari and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.15553},
year = {2024}
}