English
Related papers

Related papers: Anomalous supercurrent modulated by interfacial ma…

200 papers

We investigate the interplay between ferromagnetic and superconducting order at the edge of a quantum spin Hall insulator. Using complementary analytical and self-consistent numerical approaches, we study a ferromagnetic Josephson junction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Jacob Linder

We investigate anomalous Hall effect in a magnet coupled to a triplet superconductor under phase gradient. It is found that the anomalous Hall supercurrent arises from non-trivial structure of the magnetization. The magnetic structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-17 Takehito Yokoyama

We study Josephson current in superconductor / diffusive ferromagnet /superconductor junctions by using the recursive Green function method. When the exchange potential in a ferromagnet is sufficiently large as compared to the pair…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-11-10 Yasuhiro Asano , Yuki Sawa , Yukio Tanaka , Alexander A. Golubov

We theoretically consider a Josephson junction formed by a ferromagnetic spacer with a strong spin-orbit interaction or a magnetic spin valve, i.e., a bilayer with one static and one free layer. Electron spin transport facilitates a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Silas Hoffman , Ya. M. Blanter , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

A conventional superconductor sandwiched between two ferromagnets can maintain coherent equilibrium spin current. This spin supercurrent results from the rotation of odd-frequency spin correlations induced in the superconductor by the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-10 Risto Ojajärvi , F. S. Bergeret , M. A. Silaev , Tero T. Heikkilä

The conventional Josephson effect may be modified by introducing spin-active scattering in the interface-layer of the junction. Here, we discuss a Josephson junction consisting of two s-wave superconducting leads coupled over a classical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-07 Cecilia Holmqvist , Wolfgang Belzig , Mikael Fogelström

Motivated by a recent experiment evidencing triplet superconductivity in a ferromagnetic Josephson junction with a Cu$_2$MnAl-Heusler barrier, we construct a theoretical model accounting for this observation. The key ingredients in our…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 Jacob Linder , Asle Sudbø

Planar Josephson junctions in a magnetic field exhibit the superconducting diode effect, by which the critical current magnitude depends on the polarity of the transport current. A number of different mechanisms for the effect have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 William F. Schiela , Melissa Mikalsen , William M. Strickland , Javad Shabani

The interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism has long been pursued as a route to unconventional Josephson effects, yet suitable material platforms remain limited. Here we report Josephson junctions based on epitaxial…

An in-plane magnetic field applied to an Ising superconductor converts spin-singlet Cooper pairs to spin-triplet ones. In this work, we study a Josephson junction formed by two Ising superconductors that are proximitized by ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Gaomin Tang , Raffael L. Klees , Christoph Bruder , Wolfgang Belzig

We study heterostructures of singlet superconductors (SC) and strongly spin-polarized ferromagnets (sFM) and show that a relative phase arises between the superconducting proximity amplitudes in the two ferromagnetic spin bands. We find a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-08-11 R. Grein , M. Eschrig , G. Metalidis , Gerd Schön

We study the effect of the interfacial transparency on the Josephson current in a diffusive ferromagnetic contact between two superconductors. In contrast to the cases of the fully transparent and the low-transparency interfaces, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Mohammadkhani , M. Zareyan

We experimentally studied the Josephson supercurrent in Nb/InN-nanowire/Nb junctions. Large critical currents up to 5.7 $\mu$A have been achieved, which proves the good coupling of the nanowire to the superconductor. The effect of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Frielinghaus , I. E. Batov , M. Weides , H. Kohlstedt , R. Calarco , Th. Schaepers

We report the results of several nonequilibrium experiments performed on superconducting/normal/superconducting (S/N/S) Josephson junctions containing either one or two extra terminals that connect to normal reservoirs. Currents injected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. S. Crosser , Jian Huang , F. Pierre , Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkilä , F. K. Wilhelm , Norman O. Birge

We study the Josephson effect in graphene-based ballistic superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor (SFS) junctions. We find an oscillatory Josephson coupling $I_c R_N$ of F graphene whose amplitude is nonvanishing for a half-metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ali G. Moghaddam , Malek Zareyan

We investigate patterns of critical current as a function of perpendicular and in-plane magnetic fields in superconductor-semiconductor-superconductor (SNS) junctions based on InAs/InGaAs heterostructures with an epitaxial Al layer. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-10 H. J. Suominen , J. Danon , M. Kjaergaard , K. Flensberg , J. Shabani , C. J. Palmstrøm , F. Nichele , C. M. Marcus

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

Hybridizing superconductivity with the quantum Hall (QH) effects has major potential for designing novel circuits capable of inducing and manipulating non-Abelian states for topological quantum computation. However, despite recent…

In general, conventional superconductivity should not occur in a ferromagnet, though it has been seen in iron under pressure. Moreover, theory predicts that the current is always carried by pairs of electrons in a spin singlet state, so…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 R. S. Keizer , S. T. B. Goennenwein , T. M. Klapwijk , G. Miao , G. Xiao , A. Gupta

We study the Josephson current in a junction comprising two superconductors linked by a strong ferromagnet in presence of impurities. We focus on a regime where the electron (and hole) motion is ballistic over the exchange length and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Konschelle , J. Cayssol , A. Buzdin