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We investigate thermally-driven transport of heat and charge in a superconducting single-electron transistor by means of a real-time diagrammatic transport theory. Our theoretical approach allows us to account for strong Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Alexander G. Bauer , Björn Sothmann

We study the thermodynamic properties of a superconductor/normal metal/superconductor Josephson junction {in the short limit}. Owing to the proximity effect, such a junction constitutes a thermodynamic system where {phase difference},…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-16 Francesco Vischi , Matteo Carrega , Alessandro Braggio , Pauli Virtanen , Francesco Giazotto

We investigate superconducting phase transition in superconductor(S)/ferromagnet(F) bilayer with Rasba spin-orbit interaction at S/F interface. This spin-orbit coupling produces spontaneous supercurrents flowing inside the atomic-thickness…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-12 Zh. Devizorova , A. V. Putilov , I. Chaykin , S. Mironov , A. I. Buzdin

We study the transport properties of nanoscale superconducting (S) devices in which two superconducting electrodes are bridged by two parallel ferromagnetic (F) wires, forming an SFFS junction with a separation between the two wires less…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-06-05 Madalina Colci , Kuei Sun , Nayana Shah , Smitha Vishveshwara , Dale J. Van Harlingen

Josephson tunnel junctions are proposed as efficient phase-tunable thermal rectifiers. The latter exploit the strong temperature dependence of the superconducting density of states and phase-dependence of heat currents flowing through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-20 M. J. Martinez-Perez , F. Giazotto

We study, both theoretically and experimentally, the features on the current-voltage characteristic of a highly transparent Josephson junction caused by transition of the superconducting leads to the normal state. These features appear due…

Using a simple model of multi-band superconductors, which can be applied in particular to Fe\nobreakdash-based pnictides, we calculate the Josephson current $I_{\text{J}}$ in a tunnel junction composed by such superconductors. We employ the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-03-19 Andreas Moor , Anatoly F. Volkov , Konstantin B. Efetov

In his original work Josephson predicted that a phase-dependent conductance should be present in superconducting tunnel junctions, an effect difficult to detect, mainly because it is hard to single it out from the usual non-dissipative…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-29 Sebastiano Peotta , Massimiliano Di Ventra

The supercurrent transport in metallic Josephson tunnel junctions with an additional interlayer made up by chromium, being an itinerant antiferromagnet, was studied. Uniform Josephson coupling was observed as a function of the magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-08-13 M. Weides , M. Disch , H. Kohlstedt , D. E. Buergler

We formulate and apply a low-energy transport theory for hybrid quantum devices containing junctions of topological superconductor (TS) wires and conventional normal (N) or superconducting (S) leads. We model TS wires as spinless $p$-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-04 A. Zazunov , R. Egger , A. Levy Yeyati

In tunneling spectroscopy studies of ferromagnet/superconductor (F/S) junctions, the effects of spin polarization, Fermi wavevector mismatch (FWM) between the F and S regions, and interfacial resistance play a crucial role. We study the low…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Igor Zutic , Oriol T. Valls

We have studied the magnetic-field-driven quantum phase transitions in Josephson junction arrays with a large coordination number. The characteristic energies were extracted in both the superconducting and insulating phases by integrating…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-01-04 J. Paramanandam , M. T. Bell , L. B. Ioffe , M. E. Gershenson

The thermodynamic properties of a spin S=1/2 tetrameric Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain with alternating interactions AF1-AF2-AF1-F (AF and F denote the antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic couplings, respectively) are studied by means of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-07-11 Shou-Shu Gong , Song Gao , Gang Su

We study tunneling in ferromagnet/unconventional superconductor (F/S) junctions. We include the effects of spin polarization, interfacial resistance, and Fermi wavevector mismatch (FWM) between the F and S regions. Andreev reflection (AR)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Igor Zutic , Oriol T. Valls

The Josephson current flowing through weak links containing ferromagnetic elements is studied theoretically under the condition that the quasiparticle distribution over energy states in the interlayer is spin-dependent. It is shown that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 A. M. Bobkov , I. V. Bobkova

We analyzed multimode Josephson junctions with exciton-polaritons (polaritonic Josephson junctions) when several coupling mechanisms of fundamental and excited states are present. The applied method is based on Keldysh-Green function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 G. Pavlovic , G. Malpuech , I. A. Shelykh

We study the Josephson effect in spin-triplet superconductor$-$quantum anomalous Hall insulator$-$spin-triplet superconductor junctions using the nonequilibrium Green function method. The current-phase difference relations show strong…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-27 Qiang Cheng , Qing Yan , Qing-Feng Sun

Superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor Josephson junctions are known to exist in the $0$ and $\pi$ states with the transitions between them controlled by the temperature and ferromagnetic interlayer thickness. We demonstrate that these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-18 A. Vargunin , M. A. Silaev

We study the thermodynamic properties of topological Josephson junctions using a quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator-based junction as an example. In particular, we propose that phase-dependent measurements of the heat capacity offer an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 Benedikt Scharf , Alessandro Braggio , Elia Strambini , Francesco Giazotto , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

We present a microscopic theory of coherent quantum transport through a superconducting film between two ferromagnetic electrodes. The scattering problem is solved for the general case of ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet (FSF)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 Milos Bozovic , Zoran Radovic