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We report supercurrent transport measurements in hybrid Josephson junctions comprised of semiconducting InAs nanowires with epitaxial ferromagnetic insulator EuS and superconducting Al coatings. The wires display a hysteretic…

Magnetic order typically disrupts superconductivity, reducing the supercurrent. Here, we show that chiral antiferromagnetism, with non-relativistic spin-split bands and distinctive valley-locked spin texture, can instead significantly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-26 Jin-Xing Hou , Hai-Peng Sun , Björn Trauzettel , Song-Bo Zhang

Josephson junctions containing ferromagnetic (F) materials have been the subject of intense study over the past two decades. The ground state of such junctions oscillates between 0 and pi as the thickness of the ferromagnetic layer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-03 D. Korucu , Reza Loloee , Norman O. Birge

Josephson junctions containing ferromagnetic layers have generated interest for application in cryogenic memory. In a junction containing both a magnetically hard fixed layer and soft free layer with carefully chosen thicknesses, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-22 Alexander E. Madden , Joshua C. Willard , Reza Loloee , Norman O. Birge

Magnetic Josephson junctions (MJJs) have emerged as a prominent playground to explore the interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism. A series of fascinating experiments have revealed striking phenomena at the…

In this work we give a characterization of the RF effect of memory switching on Nb-Al/AlOx-(Nb)-Pd$_{0.99}$Fe$_{0.01}$-Nb Josephson junctions as a function of magnetic field pulse amplitude and duration, alongside with an electrodynamical…

We report the realization of multilayer three-dimensional nanobridge Josephson junctions based on Nb/NbN and Nb/TiN superconducting stacks fabricated using electron-beam lithography and chlorine-based dry etching. In this architecture, a…

Electrical properties of Josephson junctions Nb/FeSi/Nb with superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F)interfaces are presented. Due to Andreev reflection the nearly exact quadruple enhancement of the tunnel junction differential conductance compared…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Vavra , S. Gazi , I. Vavra , G. Radnoczi , V. V. Moshchalkov , J. Derer , E. Kovacova

In 2010, several experimental groups obtained compelling evidence for spin-triplet supercurrent in Josephson junctions containing strong ferromagnetic materials. Our own best results were obtained from large-area junctions containing a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-08-27 Yixing Wang , W P Pratt, , Norman O Birge

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

The magnetic correlations at the superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F) interfaces play a crucial role in realizing dissipation-less spin-based logic and memory technologies, such as triplet-supercurrent spin-valves and "{\pi}" Josephson…

Using the Usadel equation approach, we provide a compact formalism to calculate the critical current density of 21 different types of ferromagnetic (F) Josephson junctions containing insulating (I) and normal metal (N) layers in the weak…

In an in-situ prepared three-terminal Josephson junction based on the topological insulator Bi$_4$Te$_3$ and the superconductor Nb the transport properties are studied. The differential resistance maps as a function of two bias currents…

We investigate transport properties of ballistic magnetic Josephson junctions and establish that suppression of supercurrent is an intrinsic property of the junctions, even in absence of disorder. By studying the role of ferromagnet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-31 Hervé Ness , Ivan A. Sadovskyy , Andrey E. Antipov , Mark van Schilfgaarde , Roman M. Lutchyn

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 fabricated high quality $\Nb/\Al_2\O_3/\Ni_{0.6}\Cu_{0.4}/\Nb$ superconductor-insulator-ferromagnet-superconductor Josephson tunnel junctions. Depending on the thickness of the ferromagnetic $\Ni_{0.6}\Cu_{0.4}$ layer and on the ambient…

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

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,…

In this work we study theoretically the properties of S-F/N-sIS type Josephson junctions in the frame of the quasiclassical Usadel formalism. The structure consists of two superconducting electrodes (S), a tunnel barrier (I), a combined…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-03 S. V. Bakurskiy , N. V. Klenov , I. I. Soloviev , M. Yu. Kupriyanov , A. A. Golubov

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

We propose and analyze a mesoscopic Josephson junction consisting of two ferromagnetic insulator-superconductors (FI-Ss) coupled through a normal metal (N) layer. The Josephson current of the junction is non-trivially affected by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-28 E. Strambini , F. S. Bergeret , F. Giazotto