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Josephson junctions (JJs), where both time-reversal and inversion symmetry are broken, exhibit a phase shift $\phi_0$ in their current-phase relation. This allows for an anomalous supercurrent to flow in the junction even in the absence of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-11 Alberto Hijano , Stefan Ilić , F. Sebastián Bergeret

We investigate the switching current distributions of ferromagnetic anomalous Josephson junctions subjected to a linearly increasing bias current. Our study uncovers a significant correlation between the position of the switching current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-12 Claudio Guarcello , F. Sebastián Bergeret , Roberta Citro

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…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-08-21 François Konschelle

A novel time-reversal symmetry breaking state is found theoretically in the Josephson junction between the two-gap superconductor and the conventional s-wave superconductor. This occurs due to the frustration between the three order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 T. K. Ng , N. Nagaosa

The Josephson supercurrent through the hybrid Majorana--quantum dot--Majorana junction is investigated. We particularly analyze the effect of spin-selective coupling between the Majorana and quantum dot states, which emerges only in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 Luting Xu , Xin-Qi Li , Qing-Feng Sun

We discuss the behavior of a two-level system coupled to a quantum dot contacted by superconducting source/drain electrodes, representing a simple model for the conformational degree of freedom of a molecular dot or a break junction. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Zazunov , A. Schulz , R. Egger

Due to the absence of a center of inversion in some superconducting compounds, a p-wave admixture to the dominant d-wave order parameter must exist. If time-reversal is also violated, an allowed invariant is the product of the d-wave,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 Brigitte Leridon , Tai-Kai Ng , C. M. Varma

The first evidence of anomalous Josephson effect is reported in mesoscopic superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) junctions forming a crosslike Andreev Interferometer in the absence of magnetic and spin-orbit interactions normally…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-02 D. Margineda , J. S. Claydon , F. Qejvanaj , C. Checkley

In a standard Josephson junction the current is zero when the phase difference between the superconducting leads is zero. This condition is protected by parity and time-reversal symmetries. However, the combined presence of spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 William Mayer , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , Joseph Yuan , Kaushini S. Wickramasinghe , Enrico Rossi , Javad Shabani

We study the Josephson-like spin currents between two ferromagnetic metals by deriving the effective action of the junction. A DC spin Josephson current with the full O(3) symmetry is obtained. By the analogy to the superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu-Li Lee , Yu-Wen Lee

Interfacial spin-orbit coupling in Josephson junctions offers an intriguing way to combine anomalous Hall and Josephson physics in a single device. We study theoretically how the superposition of both effects impacts…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-18 Andreas Costa , Jaroslav Fabian

Combining the Josephson effect with magnetism, or spin dependence in general, creates novel physical phenomena. The spin-asymmetric Josephson effect is a predicted phenomenon where a spin-dependent potential applied across a Josephson…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-02-13 Juha M. Kreula , Miikka O. J. Heikkinen , Francesco Massel , Päivi Törmä

We analyze the presence of non-reciprocal critical currents, the so-called superconducting diode effect, in chiral superconductors within a generalized Ginzburg-Landau framework. After deriving its key symmetry conditions we illustrate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-13 Bastian Zinkl , Keita Hamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

We study the Josephson effects arising in junctions made of non-centrosymmetric superconductors with spin-triplet pairing having $s$-wave orbital-singlet symmetry. We demonstrate that the orbital dependent character of the spin-triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-21 Yuri Fukaya , Yukio Tanaka , Paola Gentile , Keiji Yada , Mario Cuoco

We present a theory of the Josephson current in superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) junctions in the presence of generic spin-dependent fields, such as spin-orbit coupling (SOC), Zeeman fields, and altermagnetism. We consider…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-10 Maryam Darvishi , F. Sebastián Bergeret , Stefan Ilić

Superconductors can form ideal diodes carrying nondissipative supercurrents in the forward direction and dissipative currents in the backward direction. The Josephson diode has proven to be a promising design where the junction between the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-04 Lina Johnsen Kamra , Liang Fu

We study a multi-terminal Josephson junction consisting of a central spin-orbit-coupled (SOC) region with an in-plane Zeeman field connected to four superconducting terminals. This setup allows for the simultaneous measurement of both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-29 Bijay Kumar Sahoo , Abhiram Soori

Based on the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations, we investigate the transport of the Josephson current in a S/$f_L$-F$_1$-$f_C$-F$_2$-$f_R$/S junction, where S and F$_{1,2}$ are superconductors and ferromagnets, and $f_{L, C, R}$ are the left,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-07 Hao Meng , Xiuqiang Wu , Yajie Ren , Jiansheng Wu

The spin-asymmetric Josephson effect is a proposed quantum-coherent tunnelling phenomenon where Cooper-paired fermionic spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particles, which are subjected to spin-dependent potentials across a Josephson junction, undergo…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-01-31 J. M. Kreula , G. Valtolina , P. Törmä

When time-reversal and inversion symmetry are broken, superconducting circuits may exhibit a so-called diode effect, where the critical currents for opposite directions of the current flow differ. In recent years, this effect has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Julia S. Meyer , Manuel Houzet