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Topological hydrodynamics in spin-triplet superconductors

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2025-08-21 v2 Superconductivity

Abstract

Due to the structure of the underlying SO(3) d\mathbf d-vector order parameter, spin triplet superconductors exhibit a bulk-edge correspondence linking the circulation of supercurrent to the bulk magnetic skyrmion density, giving rise to topological hydrodynamics of magnetic skyrmions. To probe the interplay of charge and spin dynamics, we propose a blueprint for a spin-triplet superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), which functions without a Josephson weak link. The triplet SQUID undergoes nonsingular 4π4\pi phase slips, in which current relaxation is facilitated by spin dynamics that trace out a magnetic skyrmion texture. Inductively coupling the device to a tank circuit and probing the nonlinear supercurrent response via Oersted field measurements could provide an experimental signature of ferromagnetic spin-triplet superconductivity.

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@article{arxiv.2508.06758,
  title  = {Topological hydrodynamics in spin-triplet superconductors},
  author = {Chau Dao and Eric Kleinherbers and Bjørnulf Brekke and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.06758},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

20 pages including the supplemental material, 6 figures

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