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Josephson junctions (JJs), where both time-reversal and inversion symmetry are broken, exhibit a phase shift $\phi_0$ in their current-phase relation. This allows for an anomalous supercurrent to flow in the junction even in the absence of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-11 Alberto Hijano , Stefan Ilić , F. Sebastián Bergeret

We study the Josephson current, I_J, in a junction consisting of two s-wave superconductors that are separated by a ferromagnetic barrier possessing a magnetic and non-magnetic scattering potential, g and Z, respectively. We discuss the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-05-12 Boris Kastening , Dirk K. Morr , Lambert Alff , Karl Bennemann

We study the anomalous Josephson effect, as well as the dependence on the direction of the critical Josephson current, in an S/N/S junction, where the normal part is realized by alternating spin-orbit coupled and ferromagnetic layers. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 M. Minutillo , D. Giuliano , P. Lucignano , A. Tagliacozzo , G. Campagnano

We calculate the Josephson current in a diffusive superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor junction, where the ferromagnetic region contains multiple layers (or domains). In particular, we study a configuration where there are two layers…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Iver B. Sperstad , Jacob Linder , Asle Sudbø

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

The Josephson current in a diffusive superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor junction with precessing magnetization is calculated within the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity. When the junction is phase-biased, a stationary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-31 M. Houzet

We consider a simple model of a multidomain superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor (SFS) Josephson junction. Sign-alternating magnetization $M$ in domains leads to a spatial modulation of the phase difference $\phi (x)$. Due to this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 A. F. Volkov , A. Anishchanka

We study a Josephson junction made with a spin-textured bridge, when both Rashba and Zeeman interactions combine to generate a magneto-electric coupling between the superconducting current and the in-plane magnetic texture in the normal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-08-21 François Konschelle

The transmission of Cooper pairs between two weakly coupled superconductors produces a superfluid current and a phase difference; the celebrated Josephson effect. Because of time-reversal and parity symmetries, there is no Josephson current…

We study the critical current of a S/F-I-N/S tunnel structure - a proximity coupled superconductor (S) with thin ferromagnetic (F) and nonmagnetic (N) metals separated by an insulating (I) barrier - in an external magnetic field. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Krivoruchko , E. A. Koshina

We study the combined effects of spin-orbit interaction, magnetic field, and Coulomb charging on the Josephson current-phase relation, I(\varphi), for a multi-level quantum dot tunnel-contacted by two conventional s-wave superconductors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Brunetti , A. Zazunov , A. Kundu , R. Egger

The Josephson $\varphi_0$ junctions with the current-phase relation $I = I_c \sin (\varphi-\varphi_0)$, where the phase shift $\varphi_0$ is proportional to the magnetic moment perpendicular to the gradient of the asymmetric spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-03 Yu. M. Shukrinov , I. R. Rahmonov , K. Sengupta

We show that a Josephson current flowing through a ferromagnet-normal-metal-ferromagnet trilayer connected to two superconducting electrodes induces an equilibrium exchange interaction between the magnetic moments of the ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xavier Waintal , Piet W. Brouwer

We study the Josephson effect in a triplet superconductor--ferromagnet--singlet superconductor junction. We show that the interaction of tunneling Cooper pairs with the interface magnetization can permit a Josephson current at the lowest…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-22 P. M. R. Brydon , Wei Chen , Yasuhiro Asano , Dirk Manske

The pursuit of dissipationless spin supercurrents is a central theme in superconducting spintronics. We propose a field-free Josephson junction using an inhomogeneous altermagnetic interlayer with in-plane N\'{e}el vectors. We show that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-11 Wenjun Zhao , Yuri Fukaya , Pablo Burset , Jorge Cayao , Yukio Tanaka , Bo Lu

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 calculate the current-phase relation of a long Josephson junction consisting of two ferromagnetic domains with equal, but opposite magnetization $h$, sandwiched between two superconductors. In the clean limit, the current-phase relation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ya. M. Blanter , F. W. J. Hekking

Josephson junctions with s-wave superconductors (S) and multiple ferromagnetic (F) layers carry spin-triplet supercurrents in the presence of magnetically inhomogeneous spin-mixer interfaces. Here, we report magnetic Josephson junctions…

We study two different superconductor-ferromagnet (S/F) structures. We consider first a Josephson junction which consists of two S/F bilayers separated by an insulating layer. We show that for an antiparallel alignment of the magnetization…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 F. S. Bergeret , A. F. Volkov , K. B. Efetov

Josephson junctions made with conventional s-wave superconductors and containing multiple layers of ferromagnetic materials can carry spin-triplet supercurrent in the presence of certain types of magnetic inhomogeneity. In junctions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-24 William Martinez , W. P. Pratt, , Norman O. Birge