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The Josephson effect is a manifestation of the macroscopic phase coherence of superconductors and superfluids. We propose that with ultracold Fermi gases one can realise a spin-asymmetric Josephson effect in which the two spin components of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-12-10 M. O. J. Heikkinen , F. Massel , J. Kajala , M. J. Leskinen , G. -S. Paraoanu , P. Torma

The magnetic analogue of the Josephson effect can be exploited to develop a new class of nano-spin oscillators that we denote as spin superfluid Josephson oscillators. Such a device, consisting of two exchange coupled easy-plane metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Yizhou Liu , Igor Barsukov , Ilya Krivorotov , Yafis Barlas , Roger K. Lake

We consider theoretically a current flowing perpendicular to interfaces of a spin-valve type ferromagnetic metallic junction. For the first time an effective approach is investigated to calculate a simultaneous action of the two current…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 R. J. Elliott , E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

We demonstrate the general principle which states that a dissipationless spin current flows between two coupled ferromagnets if their magnetic orders are misaligned. This principle applies regardless the two ferromagnets are metallic or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-03 Wei Chen , Peter Horsch , Dirk Manske

We study spin relaxation in dilute magnetic semiconductors near a ferromagnetic transition, where spin fluctuations become strong. An enhancement in the scattering rate of itinerant carriers from the spin fluctuations of localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 Matthew D. Mower , G. Vignale

We report theoretical results for the nonequilibrium spin current and spin-transfer torque in voltage-biased SFNFS Josephson structures. The subharmonic gap structures and high voltage asymptotic behaviors of the dc and ac components of the…

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

We extend the Keldysh formulation to quantum spin systems and derive exact equations of motion. This allows us to explore the dynamics of single spins and of ferromagnets when these are inserted between superconducting leads. Several new…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Zohar Nussinov , Alexander Shnirman , Daniel P. Arovas , Alexander V. Balatsky , Jian-Xin Zhu

The spin superconductor state is the spin-polarized triplet exciton condensate, which can be viewed as a counterpart of the charge superconductor state. As an analogy of the charge Josephson effect, the spin Josephson effect can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 W. Zeng , R. Shen

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

The conventional Josephson effect may be modified by introducing spin-active scattering in the interface-layer of the junction. Here, we discuss a Josephson junction consisting of two s-wave superconducting leads coupled over a classical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-07 Cecilia Holmqvist , Wolfgang Belzig , Mikael Fogelström

We propose Josephson junction with a high-spin magnetic impurity sandwiched between two superconductors. This system shows a $\pi$ junction behavior as a function of the spin magnetic moment state of the impurity, the interface…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-28 Subhajit Pal , Colin Benjamin

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

A ferromagnet-normal-metal-ferromagnet trilayer does not conserve spin current and as a result, the conduction electrons can create a torque on the magnetic moments. When the trilayer is connected to a superconducting electrode, the spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Xavier Waintal , Piet W. Brouwer

We theoretically investigate the supercurrent flow in a Josephson junction consisting of two spin-split superconductors combined by a normal metal weak link. The normal metal may be driven out of equilibrium, thus modifying the electron and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-06 Chi Sun , Jacob Linder

We study theoretically the effect of spin relaxation on the spin transport in a ferromagnet/superconductor(FM/SC) tunnel junction. When spin-polarized electrons are injected into the SC from the FM, nonequilibrium spin accumulation as well…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Yamashita , S. Takahashi , H. Imamura , S. Maekawa

In the Josephson effect, coherent Cooper pair tunneling is driven by the phase difference between the superconducting order parameters on opposite sides of the junction. By analogy, differences in order parameters across a junction should…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-20 D. Chassé , A. -M. S. Tremblay

Spin transport via electrons is typically plagued by Joule heating and short decay lengths due to spin-flip scattering. It is known that dissipationless spin currents can arise when using conventional superconducting contacts, yet this has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-26 Sol Jacobsen , Iryna Kulagina , Jacob Linder

We present a numerical study of the density of states in a ferromagnet/superconductor junction and the Josephson current in a superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor junction in the diffusive limit by solving the Usadel equation with…

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

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 extended McMillan's Green's function method to study the equilibrium spin current (ESC) in a ferromagnet/ferromagnet (FM/FM) tunnelling junction, in which the magnetic moments in both FM electrodes are not collinear. The single-electron…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 J. Wang , K. S. Chan