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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

Graphene has remarkable opportunities for spintronics due to its high mobility and long spin diffusion length, especially when encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). Here, for the first time, we demonstrate gate-tunable spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Jinsong Xu , Simranjeet Singh , Jyoti Katoch , Guanzhong Wu , Tiancong Zhu , Igor Zutic , Roland K. Kawakami

We theoretically study the Josephson effect in a superconductor/normal metal/superconductor ({\it S}/{\it N}/{\it S}) Josephson junction composed of $s$-wave {\it S}s with {\it N} which is sandwiched by two ferromagnetic insulators ({\it…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-08-06 Shin-ichi Hikino , Seiji Yunoki

Superconducting systems that simultaneously lack space-inversion and time-reversal symmetries have recently been the subject of a flurry of experimental and theoretical research activities. Their ability to carry supercurrents with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-25 Andreas Costa , Jaroslav Fabian , Denis Kochan

The study of superconductor-ferromagnet interfaces has generated great interest in the last decades, leading to the observation of spin-aligned triplet supercurrents and 0-pi transitions in Josephson junctions where two superconductors are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-04 R. Caruso , D. Massarotti , G. Campagnano , A. Pal , H. G. Ahmad , P. Lucignano , M. Eschrig , M. G. Blamire , F. Tafuri

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

The noncentrosymmetric Td-WTe$_2$, previously known as a type-II Weyl semimetal, is expected to have higher order topological phases with topologically protected, helical one-dimensional (1D) hinge states when their scarcely separated Weyl…

We demonstrate a Josephson junction with a weak link containing two ferromagnets, with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and independent switching fields in which the critical current can be set by the mutual orientation of the two layers.…

We determine, using a self consistent method, the charge and spin currents in ballistic Josephson junctions consisting of ferromagnetic ($F$) layers sandwiched between superconducting ($S$) electrodes ($SFS$-type junctions). When there are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-24 Klaus Halterman , Oriol T. Valls , Chien-Te Wu

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 new van der Waals Kondo-lattice Fe$_3$GeTe$_2$, itinerant ferromagnetism and heavy fermionic behaviour coexist. Both the key properties of such a system namely a spin-polarized Fermi surface and a low Fermi momentum are expected to…

The coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism within a single material system represents a long-standing goal in condensed matter physics. Van der Waals-based moir\'e superlattices provide an exceptional platform for exploring…

We analyze theoretically the influence of domain walls (DWs) on the DC Josephson current in magnetic superconducting S$_{m}$/Fl/F/Fl/S$_{m}$ junctions. The Josephson junction consists of two "magnetic" superconductors S$_{m}$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-06 Samme M. Dahir , Anatoly F. Volkov , Ilya M. Eremin

We present measurements of Josephson junctions containing three magnetic layers with noncolinear magnetizations. The junctions are of the form $S/F^{\prime}/N/F/N/F^{\prime \prime}/S$, where $S$ is superconducting Nb, $F^\prime$ is either a…

We study Josephson-like junctions formed by materials with antiferromagnetic (AF) order parameters. As an antiferromagnet, we consider a two-band material in which a spin density wave (SDW) arises. This could be Fe-based pnictides in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-02-01 A. Moor , A. F. Volkov , K. B. Efetov

We present a theoretical study of the Josephson coupling of two s-wave superconductors which are connected through a diffusive contact consisting of noncollinear ferromagnetic domains. First, we consider a contact with two domains with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-30 Zahra Shomali , Malek Zareyan , Wolfgang Belzig

In this work, a theoretical study of spin transport in a pseudovalve spin (PSV) heterostructure is conducted. For the semiconductor (SC), the conduction band at the $\Gamma$ point of reciprocal space and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) are…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-24 Julián A. Zúñiga , Arles V. Gil Rebaza , Diego F. Coral Coral

Ferromagnetic (FM) semimetals Fe$_n$GeTe$_2$(n=3, 4, 5), exhibit several symmetry-protected band-crossing points or lines near the Fermi energy (E$_F$) and these topological properties of energy bands lead to interesting transport…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-11 Jyotirmoy Sau , S. R. Hassan , Nitesh Kumar , Manoranjan Kumar

Graphene sandwiched between semiconducting monolayers of ferromagnet Cr$_2$Ge$_2$Te$_6$ and transition-metal dichalcogenide WS$_2$ acquires both spin-orbit (SO), of valley-Zeeman and Rashba types, and exchange couplings. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Klaus Zollner , Marko D. Petrovic , Kapildeb Dolui , Petr Plechac , Branislav K. Nikolic , Jaroslav Fabian

Thin transition metal dichalcogenides sustain superconductivity at large in-plane magnetic fields due to Ising spin-orbit protection, which locks their spins in an out-of-plane orientation. Here we use thin NbSe$_2$ as superconducting…