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We present an accurate way to detect spin dynamics of a nutating molecular nanomagnet by inserting it in a tunnel Josephson junction and studying the current voltage (I-V) characteristic. The spin nutation of the molecular nanomagnet is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 Babak Abdollahipour , Jahanfar Abouie , Navid Ebrahimi

We theoretically study the DC Josephson effect of a semiconductor nanowire (NW) with strong spin-orbit interaction when a magnetic field is applied parallel to the NW. We adopt a model of single scatterer in a quasi-one-dimensional system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-15 Tomohiro Yokoyama , Mikio Eto , Yuli V. Nazarov

Without applied bias voltage, a superconducting phase difference can drive a charge Josephson supercurrent in a superconductor junction. In analogy, we here theoretically propose a spin phase that intrinsically generates spin Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-30 Yue Mao , Qing-Feng Sun

We study theoretically the effect of spin relaxation on the spin transport in a ferromagnet/superconductor(FM/SC) tunnel junction. When spin-polarized electrons are injected into the SC from the FM, nonequilibrium spin accumulation as well…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Yamashita , S. Takahashi , H. Imamura , S. Maekawa

The Josephson current in a diffusive superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor junction with precessing magnetization is calculated within the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity. When the junction is phase-biased, a stationary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-31 M. Houzet

We present a theoretical study of the effect of spin-filtering on the Josephson and dissipative quasiparticle currents in a superconducting tunnel junction. By combining the quasiclassical Green's functions and the tunneling Hamiltonian…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-05 F. S. Bergeret , A. Verso , A. F. Volkov

The multi-terminal Josephson effect allows DC supercurrent to flow at finite commensurate voltages. Existing proposals to realize this effect rely on nonlocal Andreev processes in superconductor-normal-superconductor junctions. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 André Melo , Valla Fatemi , Anton R. Akhmerov

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

The prospect of combining the dissipationless nature of superconducting currents with the spin-polarization of magnetic materials is interesting with respect to exploring superconducting analogues of topics in spintronics. In order to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Iryna Kulagina , Jacob Linder

We demonstrate numerically that a pure time-harmonic bias AC current of some particular amplitude $\tau_f$ and angular frequency $\omega_f$ can excite the chaotic magnetization dynamics in a Josephson-like antiferromagnetic (AFM) spin Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 D. V. Slobodianiuk , O. V. Prokopenko

The Josephson effect in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is an excellent tool to probe the properties of the superconducting order parameter on a local scale through the Ambegaokar-Baratoff (AB) relation. Using single atomic contacts…

For the study of molecular spin junctions, we take into account two types of couplings between the molecule and the metal leads: (i) electron transfer that gives rise to net current in the biased junction and (ii) energy transfer between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-23 M. Jouravlev , Kwang S. Kim

We study the Josephson effect through a magnetic molecule with anisotropic properties. Performing calculations in the tunneling regime, we show that the exchange coupling between the electron spin on the molecule and the molecular spin can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-16 I. A. Sadovskyy , D. Chevallier , T. Jonckheere , M. Lee , S. Kawabata , T. Martin

We establish a general formulation for spin current pumped by magnons at the interface between a normal metal and a magnetic insulator, valid for any non-collinear magnetic configuration in the linear spin wave regime. This current is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Virgile Guemard , Aurélien Manchon

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

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

A charge flow through a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) leads to the generation of a spin-polarized current which exerts a spin-transfer torque (STT) on the magnetization. When the density of applied direct current exceeds some critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 A. I. Nikitchenko , N. A. Pertsev

We investigate HgTe/Nb-based three-terminal Josephson junctions in T-shaped and X-shaped geometries and their critical current contours (CCCs). By decomposing the CCCs into the contributions from individual junctions, we uncover how bias…

Spin transport via electrons is typically plagued by Joule heating and short decay lengths due to spin-flip scattering. It is known that dissipationless spin currents can arise when using conventional superconducting contacts, yet this has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-26 Sol Jacobsen , Iryna Kulagina , Jacob Linder

We consider a Josephson junction with an arbitrary transmission coefficient $\mathcal{D}$ between a singlet and a triplet superconductor with the latter order parameter characterized by a d-vector of the form ($k_x\hat{y}-k_y\hat{x}$).…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-04-11 Chi-Ken Lu , Sungkit Yip