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The Josephson diode effect, where the critical current magnitude depends on its direction, arises when both time-reversal and inversion symmetries are broken - often achieved by a combination of spin-orbit interaction and applied magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Gerrit Behner , Abdur Rehman Jalil , Detlev Grützmacher , Thomas Schäpers

We study the Josephson effect in a superconductor/altermagnet/superconductor (S/AM/S) junction. We find anomalous phenomena including $0$-$\pi$ transition as well as multi-nodal current-phase relations. Similar to $d$-wave superconductor,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-02 Bo Lu , Kazuki Maeda , Hiroyuki Ito , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka

We consider a ballistic Josephson junction with a quantum point contact in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The point contact acts as a spin filter when embedded in a circuit with normal electrodes. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-15 A. A. Reynoso , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro , D. Feinberg , M. Avignon

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 have realized multifacet Josephson junctions with periodically alternating critical current density (MJJs) using superconductor-insulator-ferromagnet-superconductor heterostructures. We show that anomalous features of critical current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-09-30 S. Scharinger , C. Gürlich , R. G. Mints , M. Weides , H. Kohlstedt , E. Goldobin , D. Koelle , R. Kleiner

We investigate theoretically the Josephson junction of semiconductor nanowire with strong spin-orbit (SO) interaction in the presence of magnetic field. By using a tight-binding model, the energy levels $E_n$ of Andreev bound states are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-09 Tomohiro Yokoyama , Mikio Eto , Yuli V. Nazarov

We consider a diffusive S-N-S junction with electrons in the normal layer driven out of equilibrium by external bias. We show that, the non-equilibrium fluctuations of the electron density in the normal layer cause the fluctuations of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 B. N. Narozhny , I. L. Aleiner

The anomalous proximity effect in dirty superconducting junctions is one of most striking phenomena highlighting the profound nature of Majorana bound states and odd-frequency Cooper pairs in topological superconductors. Motivated by the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-04 Satoshi Ikegaya , Shun Tamura , Dirk Manske , Yukio Tanaka

We present a theory of the Josephson current in superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) junctions in the presence of generic spin-dependent fields, such as spin-orbit coupling (SOC), Zeeman fields, and altermagnetism. We consider…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-10 Maryam Darvishi , F. Sebastián Bergeret , Stefan Ilić

Based on the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations, we investigate the transport of the Josephson current in a S/$f_L$-F$_1$-$f_C$-F$_2$-$f_R$/S junction, where S and F$_{1,2}$ are superconductors and ferromagnets, and $f_{L, C, R}$ are the left,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-07 Hao Meng , Xiuqiang Wu , Yajie Ren , Jiansheng Wu

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

Simultaneous breaking of inversion- and time-reversal symmetry in Josephson junction leads to a possible violation of the $I(\varphi)=-I(-\varphi)$ equality for the current-phase relation. This is known as anomalous Josephson effect and it…

We consider s-wave pairing in a double layer of two chiral metals due to Coulomb interaction, and study the Josephson effect near a domain wall, where the sign of the order parameter jumps. The domain wall creates two zero energy modes,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-18 K. Ziegler , A. Sinner , Yu. E. Lozovik

Interfacial spin-orbit coupling in Josephson junctions offers an intriguing way to combine anomalous Hall and Josephson physics in a single device. We study theoretically how the superposition of both effects impacts…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-18 Andreas Costa , Jaroslav Fabian

We explore a spin Josephson effect in a system of two ferromagnets coupled by a tunnel junction formed of 2D time-reversal invariant topological insulators. In analogy with the more commonly studied instance of the Josephson effect for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Qinglei Meng , Vasudha Shivamoggi , Taylor L. Hughes , Matthew J. Gilbert , Smitha Vishveshwara

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

Combining the Josephson effect with magnetism, or spin dependence in general, creates novel physical phenomena. The spin-asymmetric Josephson effect is a predicted phenomenon where a spin-dependent potential applied across a Josephson…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-02-13 Juha M. Kreula , Miikka O. J. Heikkinen , Francesco Massel , Päivi Törmä

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

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

A Josephson junction (JJ) is a key device in the development of superconducting circuits, wherein a supercurrent in the JJ is controlled by the phase difference between the two superconducting electrodes. Recently, it has been shown that…