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We study a graphene Josephson junction where the inner graphene layer is subjected to spin-orbit coupling by proximity effect. This could be achieved, for example, by growing the graphene layer on top of a transition metal dichalcogenide,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Federico Bonasera , Giuseppe A. Falci , Elisabetta Paladino , Francesco M. D. Pellegrino

We study the effect of the intrinsic (Rashba or Dresselhaus) spin-orbit interaction in superconductor--nanowire--superconductor (SNS) weak links in the presence of a spin-splitting field that can result either from an intrinsic exchange…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-17 Juho Arjoranta , Tero T. Heikkila

Over the past decade, it has been proposed theoretically and confirmed experimentally that long-range spin triplet (LRT) superconductivity can be generated in ferromagnet-superconductor hybrids either by the presence of spin textures…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-17 Pablo Tuero , César González-Ruano , Yuan Lu , Coriolan Tiusan , Farkhad G. Aliev

Using the self-consistent tight-binding Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism we have studied the effect of nearest neighbor spin-singlet bond (SB) correlations on Josephson coupling and proximity effect in graphene SNS Josephson junctions with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-11-18 Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Sebastian Doniach

We have investigated the Josephson coupling between two s-wave superconductors separated by the ferromagnetic trilayers with noncollinear magnetization. We find that the long-range triplet critical current will oscillate with the strength…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-12-13 Hao Meng , Xiuqiang Wu , Zhiming Zheng

We show that vortices with circulating current, related with odd-frequency triplet pairing, appear in Josephson junctions where the barrier is a weak ferromagnet with strong spin-orbit coupling. By symmetry analysis we show that there is an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-21 Dan Crawford , Stefan Ilić , Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkilä

We investigate the Josephson current in a graphene superconductor/normal/superconductor junction, where superconductivity is induced by means of the proximity effect from external contacts. We take into account the possibility of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Jacob Linder , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Takehito Yokoyama , Sebastian Doniach , Asle Sudbø

We study the Josephson effect between chiral p-wave superconductor / diffusive normal metal (DN) / chiral p-wave superconductor (CP/DN/CP) junctions using quasiclassical Green's function formalism with proper boundary conditions. The…

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

We study a novel type of coupling between spin and orbital degrees of freedom which appears at triplet superconductor-ferromagnet interfaces. Using a self-consistent spatially-dependent mean-field theory, we show that increasing the angle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-09-03 Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco , Alfonso Romano , Canio Noce , Dirk Manske , P. M. R. Brydon

The very special characteristic of the proximity effect in superconductor-ferromagnet systems is the damped oscillatory behavior of the Cooper pair wave function in a ferromagnet. In some sense, this is analogous to the inhomogeneous…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 A. I. Buzdin

Establishment of phase-coherence and a non-dissipative (super)current between two weakly coupled superconductors, known as the Josephson effect, plays a foundational role in basic physics and applications to metrology, precision sensing,…

Whereas there exists considerable evidence for the conversion of singlet Cooper pairs into triplet Cooper pairs in the presence of inhomogeneous magnetic fields, recent theoretical proposals have suggested an alternative way to exert…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-06 N. Banerjee , J. A. Ouassou , Y. Zhu , N. A. Stelmashenko , J. Linder , M. G. Blamire

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

We study experimentally nanoscale Josephson junctions and Josephson spin-valves containing strong Ni ferromagnets. We observe that in contrast to junctions, spin valves with the same geometry exhibit anomalous Ic(H) patterns with two peaks…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-26 O. M. Kapran , A. Iovan , T. Golod , V. M. Krasnov

We investigate the proximity effect in diffusive superconducting hybrid structures with a spin-orbit (SO) coupling. Our study is focused on the singlet-triplet conversion and the generation of long-range superconducting correlations in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 F. S. Bergeret , I. V. Tokatly

The application of in-plane magnetic fields to Josephson junctions enables fundamental exploration of quantum phenomena, including Zeeman-driven 0-$\pi$ transitions and planar topological superconductivity. However, intrinsic orbital…

One of the salient signatures of Majorana zero modes and topological superconductivity is a $4\pi$-periodic Josephson effect due to the combination of fermion parity conservation and the presence of a topologically protected odd number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Christian Spånslätt

It has been shown that singlet Cooper pairs can be converted into triplet ones and diffuse into a ferromagnet over a long distance in a phenomenon known as the long-range proximity effect (LRPE). This happens in materials with inhomogeneous…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-25 Yao Lu , Tero T. Heikkilä

We propose a model for a superconductor where both spin-singlet and chiral triplet pairing amplitudes can coexist. By solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations with a general pair potential that accounts for both spin states we study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-06 Pablo Burset , Felix Keidel , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa , Björn Trauzettel

Multi-terminal superconducting Josephson junctions based on the proximity effect offer the bright opportunity to tailor non trivial quantum states in nanoscale weak-links. These structures can realize exotic topologies in multidimensions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-09 E. Strambini , S. D'Ambrosio , F. Vischi , F. S. Bergeret , Yu. V. Nazarov , F. Giazotto