English
Related papers

Related papers: Spin nutation effects in molecular nanomagnet$-$su…

200 papers

We study the Josephson coupling between two superconductors through a single correlated molecular level, including Coulomb interaction on the level and coupling to a bosonic environment. All calculations are done to the lowest, i.e., the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomas Novotny , Alessandra Rossini , Karsten Flensberg

The interfacial coupling of two materials with different ordered phases, such as a superconductor (S) and a ferromagnet (F) is driving new fundamental physics and innovative applications. For example, the creation of spin-filter Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-29 D. Massarotti , A. Pal , G. Rotoli , L. Longobardi , M. G. Blamire , F. Tafuri

We study the effect of a magnetic field on the current-phase relation of a topological Josephson junction formed by connecting two superconductors through the helical edge states of a quantum spin-Hall insulator. We predict that the Zeeman…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-27 Fabrizio Dolcini , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer

We demonstrate that curvature-induced spin-orbit (SO) coupling induces a $0-\pi$ transition in the Josephson current through a carbon nanotube quantum dot coupled to superconducting leads. In the non-interacting regime, the transition can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Jong Soo Lim , Rosa Lopez , Mahn-Soo Choi , Ramon Aguado

A key phenomenon related to the Josephson effect is oscillations of different properties of superconducting tunneling junctions with magnetic field. We consider magnetic oscillations of the critical current in stacks of intrinsic Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-11-09 A. E. Koshelev

Mesoscopic superconducting-normal-metal-superconducting (S-N-S) junctions with a large separation between the superconducting electrodes (i.e. wide junctions) exhibit nonequilibrium supercurrents, even at temperatures for which the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Nathan Argaman

Josephson current between two one-dimensional nanowires with proximity induced $p$-wave superconducting pairing is calculated in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction, in-plane and normal magnetic fields. We show that Andreev…

We study theoretically the Josephson effect in junctions based on unconventional superconductors with diffusive barriers, using the quasiclassical Green's function formalism. Generalized boundary conditions at junction interfaces applicable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Yokoyama , Y. Tanaka , A. A. Golubov

We study nonequilibrium effects in current transport through voltage biased tunnel junction with long diffusive superconducting leads at low applied voltage, $eV \ll 2\Delta$, and finite temperatures. Due to a small value of the Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-01-11 E. V. Bezuglyi , A. S. Vasenko , V. S. Shumeiko , G. Wendin

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

We investigate spin transport in voltage-biased spin-active Josephson junctions. The interplay of spin filtering, spin mixing, and multiple Andreev reflection leads to nonlinear voltage dependence of the dc and ac spin current. We compute…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Erhai Zhao , J. A. Sauls

In this thesis we study short Josephson junctions which include a region with Rashba spin-orbit coupling effect. Our junctions consists of two superconductors (S) and a 2-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) layer between them: S/2DEG/S…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-01 A. F. Tzortzakakis , N. Flytzanis

The recent advent of a new class of magnetic material named as {\it altermagnet} (AM), characterized by a combination of momentum-dependent spin splitting with zero net magnetization, has opened up promising prospects for spintronic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-12 Debika Debnath , Arijit Saha , Paramita Dutta

The long-range spin-triplet supercurrent transport is an interesting phenomenon in the superconductor/ferromagnet ($S/F$) heterostructure containing noncollinear magnetic domains. Here we study the long-range superharmonic Josephson current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-27 Hao Meng , Jiansheng Wu , Xiuqiang Wu , Mengyuan Ren , Yajie Ren

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

Spin-polarized transport is investigated in normal metal-superconductor (NS) junctions as a function of interface transmissivity as well as temperature when the density of states of a superconductor is Zeeman-split in response to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-03 F. Giazotto , F. Taddei

The problem of Josephson current through Coulomb-blocked nanoscale superconductor-normal-superconductor structure with tunnel contacts is reconsidered. Two different contributions to the phase-biased supercurrent are identified, which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. M. Ostrovsky , M. V. Feigel'man

Junctions created by coupling two superconductors via a semiconductor nanowire in the presence of high magnetic fields are the basis for detection, fusion, and braiding of Majorana bound states. We study NbTiN/InSb nanowire/NbTiN Josephson…

We develop a detailed microscopic theory describing dc Josephson effect and Andreev bound states in superconducting junctions with a half-metal. In such systems the supercurrent is caused by triplet pairing states emerging due to spin-flip…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-03-29 Artem V. Galaktionov , Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We propose and theoretically investigate spin superconducting qubits. Spin superconducting qubit consists of a single spin confined in a Josephson junction. We show that owing to spin-orbit interaction, superconducting difference across the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-07 C. Padurariu , Yu. V. Nazarov