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SHORTENED ABSTRACT: We study numerically the properties of spin- and charge-transport in a nanoscale diffusive superconductor$\mid$ferromagnet$\mid$superconductor junction when the magnetization texture is non-uniform. Specifically, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-01-15 Mohammad Alidoust , Jacob Linder , Gholamreza Rashedi , Takehito Yokoyama , Asle Sudbø

We study the Josephson current in two types of lateral junctions with spin-orbit coupling and an exchange field. The first system (type 1 junction) consists of superconductors with heavy metal interlayers linked by a ferromagnetic bridge,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-01 B. Bujnowski , R. Biele , F. S. Bergeret

We study a junction between two time-reversal-invariant topological superconductors and show this system goes through a series of multiple transitions between a $0$-junction phase, where the free energy has its minimum for a superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 Arbel Haim

We study theoretically the effects of interfacial Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling in superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor (S/F/S) Josephson junctions---with allowing for tunneling barriers between the layers---by solving the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-30 Andreas Costa , Petra Högl , Jaroslav Fabian

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

We present a study on low-$T_c$ superconductor-insulator-ferromagnet-superconductor (SIFS) Josephson junctions. SIFS junctions have gained considerable interest in recent years because they show a number of interesting properties for future…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-10-10 M. Weides , H. Kohlstedt , R. Waser , M. Kemmler , J. Pfeiffer , D. Koelle , R. Kleiner , E. Goldobin

We study the Josephson transport through ferromagnetic insulators (FIs) by taking into account its band structure explicitly. In the case of the fully polarized FIs (FPFIs), we found the formation of a pi-junction and an atomic-scale 0-pi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-21 Shiro Kawabata , Yasuhiro Asano , Yukio Tanaka , Satoshi Kashiwaya

We predict anomalous atomic-scale 0-pi transitions in a Josephson junction with a ferromagnetic-insulator (FI) barrier. The ground state of such junction alternates between 0- and pi-states when thickness of FI is increasing by a single…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-13 Shiro Kawabata , Yasuhiro Asano , Yukio Tanaka , Alexander A. Golubov , Satoshi Kashiwaya

The Josephson supercurrent in a Nb-InAs nanowire-Nb junction was studied experimentally. The nanowire goes superconducting due to the proximity effect, and can sustain a phase coherent supercurrent. An unexpected modulation of the junction…

We show a perturbation theory of the Josephson transport through ferromagnetic insulators (FIs). Recently we have found that the appearance of the atomic scale 0-pi transition in such junctions based on numerical calculations. In order to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 Shiro Kawabata , Yukio Tanaka , Alexander A. Golubov , Andrey S. Vasenko , Satoshi Kashiwaya , Yasuhiro Asano

We investigate experimentally the supercurrent in a clean carbon nanotube quantum dot, close to orbital degeneracy, connected to superconducting leads in a regime of strong competition between local electronic correlations and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 R. Delagrange , R. Weil , A. Kasumov , M. Ferrier , H. Bouchiat , R. Deblock

We consider the tunnel spin current between two ferromagnetic metals from a perspective similar to the one used in superconductor/superconductor tunnel junctions. We use fundamental arguments to derive a Josephson-like spin tunnel current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Flavio S. Nogueira , Karl-Heinz Bennemann

We study the Josephson effects in the superconductor/two-dimensional Weyl nodal line semimetal/superconductor junctions using the Green's function method. When the Rashba spin-orbit coupling and an external magnetic field coexist in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-05 Wen-Ting Liu , Shu-Chang Zhao , Qiang Cheng , Qing-Feng Sun

The two-dimensional nature of graphene Josephson junctions offers the possibility of creating effective superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junctions with tunable Zeeman splitting caused by an in-plane magnetic field. Such junctions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-30 Eirik Holm Fyhn , Morten Amundsen , Ayelet Zalic , Tom Dvir , Hadar Steinberg , Jacob Linder

We theoretically investigate Josephson junctions with a phase shift of $\pi$ in various proximity induced one-dimensional superconductor models. One of the salient experimental signatures of topological superconductors, namely the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-28 Christian Spånslätt , Eddy Ardonne , Jan Carl Budich , Thors Hans Hansson

We study the proximity effect between conventional superconductor and magnetic normal metal with a spin-orbit interaction of the Rashba type. Using the phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau theory and the quasiclassical Eilenberger approach it…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Buzdin

We consider superconducting nanowire proximity coupled to superconductor / ferromagnet / superconductor junction, where the magnetization penetrates into superconducting segment in nanowire decaying as $\sim\exp[-\frac{\mid n \mid}{\xi}]$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-20 Hiromi Ebisu , Bo Lu , Katsuhisa Taguchi , Alexander A. Golubov , Yukio Tanaka

The interplay of superconductivity, magnetic fields, and spin-orbit interaction lies at the heart of topological superconductivity. Remarkably, the recent experimental discovery of $\varphi_{0}$ Josephson junctions by Szombati et al., Nat.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Constantin Schrade , Silas Hoffman , Daniel Loss

The Josephson effect describes supercurrent flowing through a junction connecting two superconducting leads by a thin barrier [1]. This current is driven by a superconducting phase difference $\phi$ between the leads. In the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-28 D. B. Szombati , S. Nadj-Perge , D. Car , S. R. Plissard , E. P. A. M. Bakkers , L. P. Kouwenhoven

Josephson current in SFcFS junctions with arbitrary transparency of the constriction (c) is investigated. The emphasis is done on the analysis of the supercurrent dependencies on the misorientation angle $\theta $ between the in-plane…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 A. V. Zaitsev