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Charge and spin Josephson currents in a ballistic superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junction with spin-triplet pairing symmetry are studied using the quasiclassical Eilenberger equation. The gap vector of superconductors has an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 Yousef Rahnavard , Gholamreza Rashedi , Takehito Yokoyama

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is known to play an important role in superconductor/ferromagnet heterostructures. Here we demonstrate that SOC results in the spontaneous generation of vortices in an \textit{s}-wave superconductor placed below a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-01 L. A. B. Olde Olthof , X. Montiel , J. W. A. Robinson , A. I. Buzdin

The Josephson junction of a strong spin-orbit material under a magnetic field is a promising Majorana fermion candidate. Supercurrent enhancement by a magnetic field has been observed in the InAs nanowire Josephson junctions and assigned to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Yosuke Sato , Kento Ueda , Yuusuke Takeshige , Hiroshi Kamata , Kan Li , Lars Samuelson , Hongqi Xu , Sadashige Matsuo , Seigo Tarucha

We study the Josephson effects arising in junctions made of non-centrosymmetric superconductors with spin-triplet pairing having $s$-wave orbital-singlet symmetry. We demonstrate that the orbital dependent character of the spin-triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-21 Yuri Fukaya , Yukio Tanaka , Paola Gentile , Keiji Yada , Mario Cuoco

We examine the appearance of a spontaneous bulk spin current in a triplet superconductor in contact with a metallic ferromagnet. The spin current results from the spin-flip of Cooper pairs upon reflection from the interface with the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-12-23 P. M. R. Brydon

The interplay between magnetism and superconductivity can lead to unconventional proximity and Josephson effects. A related phenomenon that has recently attracted considerable attention is the superconducting diode effect, in which a…

It has been commonly accepted that magnetic field suppresses superconductivity by inducing the ordered motion of Cooper pairs. We demonstrate that magnetic field can instead provide a generation of superconducting correlations by inducing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-07 M. A. Silaev , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov

A useful experimental signature of the ordinary spin Hall effect is the spin accumulation it produces at the sample edges. The superspin Hall current [Phys. Rev. B 96, 094512 (2017)] is a transverse equilibrium spin current which is induced…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-15 Vetle Risinggård , Jacob Linder

A thin ferromagnetic layer on a bulk equal-spin-pairing triplet superconductor is shown to mediate a Josephson coupling between the spin $\uparrow$ and $\downarrow$ condensates of the superconductor. By deriving analytic expressions for the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-17 P. M. R. Brydon , Yasuhiro Asano , Carsten Timm

We investigate a double layer system with tight-binding hopping, intra-layer and inter-layer interactions, as well as a Josephson like coupling. We find that an antiferromagnetic spin polarization induces additional spin-triplet pairing…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Christian Helm , Franz Forsthofer , Joachim Keller

At the interface between a ferromagnetic insulator and a superconductor there is a coupling between the spins of the two materials. We show that when a supercurrent carried by triplet Cooper pairs flows through the superconductor, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Lina G. Johnsen , Haakon T. Simensen , Arne Brataas , Jacob Linder

A superconductor-semiconducting nanowire-superconductor heterostructure in the presence of spin orbit coupling and magnetic field can support a supercurrent even in the absence of phase difference between the superconducting electrodes. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Campagnano , P. Lucignano , D. Giuliano , A. Tagliacozzo

We study the superconducting proximity effect in an InAs nanowire contacted by Ta-based superconducting electrodes. Using local bottom gates, we control the potential landscape along the nanowire, tuning its conductance to a quasi-ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 J. C. Estrada Saldaña , R. Žitko , J. P. Cleuziou , E. J. H. Lee , V. Zannier , D. Ercolani , L. Sorba , R. Aguado , S. De Franceschi

Chiral materials lacking mirror symmetry can exhibit unconventional spin-orbit fields, including fully momentum-aligned radial Rashba fields as seen in twisted van der Waals homobilayers. We theoretically study Cooper-pair transfer in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-21 Andreas Costa , Osamu Kanehira , Hiroaki Matsueda , Jaroslav Fabian

We theoretically investigate the vortex spin Hall effect, i.e., a novel spin Hall effect driven by the motion of superconducting vortices, by focusing on the role of superconducting fluctuations. Within the BCS-Gor'kov microscopic approach…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-15 Takuya Taira , Yusuke Kato , Masanori Ichioka , Hiroto Adachi

Since the discovery of the long-range superconducting proximity effect, the interaction between spin-triplet Cooper pairs and magnetic structures such as domain walls and vortices has been the subject of intense theoretical discussions,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-03 Remko Fermin , Dyon van Dinter , Michel Hubert , Bart Woltjes , Mikhail Silaev , Jan Aarts , Kaveh Lahabi

In quantum gases, weak links are typically realized with externally imposed optical potentials. We show that, in rotating binary condensates, quantized vortices in one component form hollow channels that act as self-induced weak links for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-03 Natalia Masalaeva , Wyatt Kirkby , Francesca Ferlaino , Russell N. Bisset

Serial double quantum dots created in semiconductor nanostructures provide a versatile platform for investigating two-electron spin quantum states, which can be tuned by electrostatic gating and an external magnetic field. In this work, we…

Superconducting order parameters that are odd under exchange of time-coordinates of the electrons constituting a Cooper-pair, are potentially of great importance both conceptually and technologically. Recent experiments report that such an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob Linder , Takehito Yokoyama , Asle Sudbø

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