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We predict a novel type of Josephson effect to occur in triplet superconductor - ferromagnet - triplet superconductor Josephson junctions. We show that the Josephson current, I_J, exhibits a rich dependence on the relative orientation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Boris Kastening , Dirk K. Morr , Dirk Manske , Karl Bennemann

We investigate the charge and spin transport in half-metallic ferromagnet ($F$) and superconductor ($S$) nanojunctions. We utilize a self-consistent microscopic method that can accommodate the broad range of energy scales present, and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-09-06 Chien-Te Wu , Klaus Halterman

Short ballistic graphene Josephson junctions sustain superconducting current with a non-sinusoidal current-phase relation up to a critical current threshold. The current-phase relation, arising from proximitized superconductivity, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-09 Francesco M. D. Pellegrino , Giuseppe Falci , Elisabetta Paladino

We fabricated high quality Nb/Al_2O_3/Ni_{0.6}Cu_{0.4}/Nb superconductor-insulator-ferromagnet-superconductor Josephson tunnel junctions. Using a ferromagnetic layer with a step-like thickness, we obtain a 0-pi junction, with equal lengths…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Weides , M. Kemmler , E. Goldobin , H. Kohlstedt , R. Waser , D. Koelle , R. Kleiner

The most developed integrated receivers for THz radiation nowadays are based on Josephson junction SIS devices. In this kind of devices, the highest receivable frequency is determined by the energy gap of the superconducting electrodes and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-09 M. Merker , C. Bohn , M. Völlinger , K. Ilin , M. Siegel

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 report on the influence of stray fields for both low and high magnetic fields applied parallel to trilayers consisting of a low-T Nb interlayer and two outer Ni Fe layers having in-plane anisotropy. At low magnetic fields these trilayers…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-02-03 D. Stamopoulos , E. Manios , N. Papachristos , I. Aristomenopoulou

We report experimental results on characteristics of SFIFS junctions and multi-terminal SFIFSIS devices (where S, I, and F denote a superconductor (Nb), an insulator (AlOx), and a ferromagnetic material (Ni), respectively). The SFIFS…

Control of the Josephson current by varying a gate current has recently been demonstrated in both 4-terminal and 3-terminal junctions. We show that, when the the gates are weakly coupled to the Josephson junction, the Josephson current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Tolga Ilhan , Philip F. Bagwell

In this work, we briefly overview various options for Josephson junctions which should be scalable down to nanometer range for utilization in nanoscale digital superconducting technology. Such junctions should possess high values of…

Josephson junctions with ferromagnetic barrier can have positive or negative critical current depending on the thickness $d_F$ of the ferromagnetic layer. Accordingly, the Josephson phase in the ground state is equal to 0 (a conventional or…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-03-18 C. Gürlich , S. Scharinger , M. Weides , H. Kohlstedt , R. G. Mints , E. Goldobin , D. Koelle , R. Kleiner

This article reviews recent advances in low-temperature electronic thermal transport properties of thermally biased superconductor heterostructures focusing on the two-terminal transport. Since the last decade, ferromagnetism has been…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-01 Paramita Dutta

We calculate the current phase relation of a planar Josephson junction with a ferromagnetic weak link located on top of a thin normal metal film. Following experimental observations we assume transparent superconductor-ferromagnet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-09 D. M. Heim , N. G. Pugach , M. Yu. Kupriyanov , E. Goldobin , D. Koelle , R. Kleiner

We study theoretically charge transport properties of normal metal (N) / ferromagnet insulator (FI) / superconductor (S) junction and S/FI/S junction formed on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulator (TI), where chiral…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Yukio Tanaka , Takehito Yokoyama , Naoto Nagaosa

We investigate the Josephson effect in a bilayer graphene flake contacted by two monolayer sheet deposited by superconducting electrodes. It is found that when the electrodes are attached to the different layers of the bilayer, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Babak Zare Rameshti , Malek Zareyan , Ali G. Moghaddam

We compute self-consistently the Josephson current in a superconductor-antiferromagnet-superconductor junction using a lattice model, focusing on $0-\pi$ transitions occurring when the width of the antiferromagnetic region changes from an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-01-17 H. Enoksen , J. Linder , A. Sudbø

The combination of superconductivity and magnetic textures represents a promising approach to explore unconventional superconducting phenomena, including new correlated and topological phases. Van der Waals (vdW) materials have emerged in…

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,…

We investigate the electronic properties of ballistic planar Josephson junctions with multiple superconducting terminals. Our devices consist of monolayer graphene encapsulated in boron nitride with molybdenum-rhenium contacts. Resistance…

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