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We discover an intrinsic superspin Hall current: an injected charge supercurrent in a Josephson junction containing heavy normal metals and a ferromagnet generates a transverse spin supercurrent. There is no accompanying dissipation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Jacob Linder , Morten Amundsen , Vetle Risinggård

We study tunneling currents in a model consisting of two non-unitary ferromagnetic spin-triplet superconductors separated by a thin insulating layer. We find a novel interplay between ferromagnetism and superconductivity, manifested in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. S. Gronsleth , J. Linder , J. -M. Borven , A. Sudbo

We study tunneling currents in a model consisting of two non-unitary ferromagnetic spin-triplet superconductors separated by a thin insulating layer. We find a novel interplay between ferromagnetism and superconductivity, manifested in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Gronsleth , J. Linder , J. -M-Borven , A. Sudbo

The $4\pi$ Josephson Effect is a distinguishing feature of a topological Josephson junction. However, stringent conditions make it hard to observe in experiments. Here we numerically study the transient transport properties in a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Dihao Sun , Jie Liu

Hybrid structures of quantum spin-Hall insulators (QSHIs) and superconductors (Ss) present a unique opportunity to access dissipationless topological states of matter, which, however, is frequently hindered by the lack of control over the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 G. Tkachov

It has been proposed that band-inverted electron-hole bilayers support a phase transition from an insulating phase with spontaneously broken time-reversal symmetry to a quantum spin Hall insulator phase as a function of increasing electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Tania Paul , V. Fernández Becerra , Timo Hyart

Contrary to the expected detrimental influence on superconductivity when applying a magnetic field, we predict that the abrupt onset of such a field can temporarily strongly enhance the superconducting order parameter. Specifically, we find…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-17 Eirik Holm Fyhn , Jacob Linder

Superconductor-Ferromagnet hybrid structures (SF) have attracted much interest in the last decades, due to a variety of interesting phenomena predicted and observed in these structures. One of them is the so-called inverse proximity effect.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-29 Samme M. Dahir , Anatoly F. Volkov , Ilya M. Eremin

We study the Josephson junction where nonreciprocal critical current was induced by the interplay of the $4\pi$-periodic and $2\pi$-periodic current-phase relation of the junction. We take the model of a topological junction which serves as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-15 Huarong Zhong , Zhi Wang

In this letter we study the effect of time-reversal symmetric impurities on the Josephson supercurrent through two dimensional helical metals such as on topological insulator surface state. We show that contrary to the usual…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-27 Pouyan Ghaemi , V. P. Nair

We study the Josephson effect in a quantum spin Hall system coupled to a localized magnetic impurity. As a consequence of the fermion parity anomaly, the spin of the combined system of impurity and spin-Hall edge alternates between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Yang Peng , Yuval Vinkler-Aviv , Piet W. Brouwer , Leonid I. Glazman , Felix von Oppen

We investigate transverse Josephson current in superconductor/normal metal/superconductor junctions where the normal metal has Rashba type spin-orbit coupling. It is shown that trans- verse current arises from the spin-orbit coupling in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-20 Takehito Yokoyama

The Josephson effect characterizes superfluids and superconductors separated by a weak link, the so-called Josephson junction. A recent experiment has shown that Josephson oscillations can be observed also in a supersolid, where the weak…

The superconducting analog to the semiconducting diode, the Josephson diode, has long been sought, with multiple avenues to realization proposed by theorists. Exhibiting magnetic-field free, single directional superconductivity with…

Time-reversal-symmetry breaking is generally understood to be detrimental for superconductivity. However, recent experiments found superconductivity emerging out of a normal state showing a finite anomalous Hall effect, indicative of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-14 Bernhard E. Lüscher , Mark H. Fischer

The superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor (S/F/S) Josephson junctions (JJs) with an anomalous ground state phase shift $\varphi_0 \neq 0,\pi$ ($\varphi_0$-S/F/S JJs) enable the implementation of the zero-field Josephson diode effect…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-13 G. A. Bobkov , I. A. Shvets , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , S. V. Eremeev , E. V. Chulkov

Superconducting chiral domains associated with a time-reversal symmetry-breaking order parameter have garnered significant attention in Kagome systems. In this work, we demonstrate both the intrinsic direct-current and alternating-current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-25 Tian Le , Zhuokai Xu , Jinjin Liu , Ruiya Zhan , Zhiwei Wang , Xiao Lin

The superconducting diode effect is an asymmetry in the critical current with respect to the supercurrent polarity. One impetus driving recent interest in the effect is its dependence on intrinsic or microscopic symmetry breaking…

The Josephson effect is a macroscopic quantum tunneling phenomenon in a system with superfluid property, when it is split into two parts by a barrier. Here, we examine the Josephson effect in a driven-dissipative supersolid realized by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-01-28 Jieli Qin , Shijie Li , Yijia Tu , Maokun Gu , Lin Guan , Weimin Xu , Lu Zhou

A new experiment is proposed to probe the time-reversal symmetry of a superconductor. It is shown that a time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductor can be identified by the observation of a fractional flux in connection with a Josephson…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Manfred Sigrist , Yong Baek Kim