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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

Superconductors are famously capable of supporting persistent electrical currents, that is, currents that flow without any measurable decay as long as the material is kept in the superconducting state. We introduce here a class of materials…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-31 Kyle Monkman , Joan Weng , Niclas Heinsdorf , Alberto Nocera , Marcel Franz

We demonstrate that in diffusive superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor (S/F/S) junctions a finite, {\it anomalous}, Josephson current can flow even at zero phase difference between the S electrodes. The conditions for the observation of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-16 M. A. Silaev , I. V. Tokatly , F. S. Bergeret

We theoretically consider a Josephson junction formed by a ferromagnetic spacer with a strong spin-orbit interaction or a magnetic spin valve, i.e., a bilayer with one static and one free layer. Electron spin transport facilitates a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Silas Hoffman , Ya. M. Blanter , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We explore a spin Josephson effect in a system of two ferromagnets coupled by a tunnel junction formed of 2D time-reversal invariant topological insulators. In analogy with the more commonly studied instance of the Josephson effect for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Qinglei Meng , Vasudha Shivamoggi , Taylor L. Hughes , Matthew J. Gilbert , Smitha Vishveshwara

We determine, using a self consistent method, the charge and spin currents in ballistic Josephson junctions consisting of ferromagnetic ($F$) layers sandwiched between superconducting ($S$) electrodes ($SFS$-type junctions). When there are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-24 Klaus Halterman , Oriol T. Valls , Chien-Te Wu

We examine a Josephson junction with two Ferromagnets and a spin flipper sandwiched between two superconductors. In such Ferromagnetic Josephson junctions, equilibrium spin torque exists only when Ferromagnets are misaligned. This is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-09 Subhajit Pal , Colin Benjamin

Intrinsic spin currents are encountered in noncentrosymmetric crystals without any external electric fields; these currents are caused by spin-orbit interaction. In this paper, various theoretical aspects of this phenomenon in bulk…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-11 Ilja Turek

The superconducting version of a diode effect has been the subject of extensive research in the past few years. So far, the focus has almost exclusively been on charge transport, but a natural question is whether it is possible to obtain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-06 Chi Sun , Johanne Bratland Tjernshaugen , Jacob Linder

Interplay between magnetization dynamics and electric current in a conducting ferromagnet is theoretically studied based on a microscopic model calculation. First, the effects of the current on magnetization dynamics (spin torques) are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 H. Kohno , S. Kawabata , T. Noguchi , S. Ueta , J. Shibata , G. Tatara

We demonstrate that weak external magnetic fields generate dissipationless spin currents in the ground state of systems with spiral magnetic order. Our conclusions are based on phenomenological considerations and on microscopic mean-field…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Jan Heurich , Jürgen König , A. H. MacDonald

We consider a mesoscopic normal metal, where the spin degeneracy is lifted by a ferromagnetic exchange field or Zeeman splitting, coupled to two superconducting reservoirs. As a function of the exchange field or the distance between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tero T. Heikkila , Frank K. Wilhelm , Gerd Schoen

The pursuit of dissipationless spin supercurrents is a central theme in superconducting spintronics. We propose a field-free Josephson junction using an inhomogeneous altermagnetic interlayer with in-plane N\'{e}el vectors. We show that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-11 Wenjun Zhao , Yuri Fukaya , Pablo Burset , Jorge Cayao , Yukio Tanaka , Bo Lu

Boundary conditions are derived that determine the penetration of spin current through an interface of two non-collinear ferromagnets with an arbitrary angle between their magnetization vectors. We start from the well-known transformation…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

We consider theoretically a current flowing perpendicular to interfaces of a spin-valve type ferromagnetic metallic junction. For the first time an effective approach is investigated to calculate a simultaneous action of the two current…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 R. J. Elliott , E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

In this paper, the spin transfer between two ferromagnetic insulators is studied. There is a narrow gap between the ferromagnetic insulators so that they are weakly interacting with each other. One of the ferromagnetic insulators is moving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Daigo Oue , Matsuo Mamoru

We study transport properties and also local density of states in a clean superconductor-normal metal-superconductor Josephson junction with triplet f-wave superconductors based on the Eilenberger equation. Effects of thickness of normal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-05 Yousef Rahnavard , Gholamreza Rashedi , Takehito Yokoyama

Based on spin-dependent transport theory and thermodynamics, we develop a generalized theory of the Joule heating in the presence of a spin current. Along with the conventional Joule heating consisting of an electric current and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-03 Tomohiro Taniguchi , Wayne M. Saslow

We investigate the spin-pumping-induced electric current on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator hybridized with a ferromagnet, namely, ferromagnetic topological insulator. In order to do this, we establish the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 Yusuke Hama , Kentaro Nomura

The spin flip of the conduction electrons at the interface of a ferromagnetic and a nonmagnetic part of a metallic wire, suspended between two electrodes, is shown to tort the wire when a current is driven through it. In order to enhance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-26 Peter Fulde , Stefan Kettemann