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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

We present a theoretical study of a Josephson junction consisting of two s-wave superconducting leads coupled over a classical spin. When an external magnetic field is applied, the classical spin will precess with the Larmor frequency. This…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 C. Holmqvist , S. Teber , M. Fogelström

We study new types of Josephson junctions composed of helical $p$-wave superconductors with $k_{x}\hat{x}\pm k_{y}\hat{y}$ and $k_{y}\hat{x}\pm k_{x}\hat{y}$-pairing symmetries using quasiclassical Green's functions with the generalized…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-02 Qiang Cheng , Kunhua Zhang , Dongyang Yu , Chongju Chen , Yinhan Zhang , Biao Jin

We study the Josephson effects arising in junctions made of non-centrosymmetric superconductors with spin-triplet pairing having $s$-wave orbital-singlet symmetry. We demonstrate that the orbital dependent character of the spin-triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-21 Yuri Fukaya , Yukio Tanaka , Paola Gentile , Keiji Yada , Mario Cuoco

We study theoretically the Josephson effect in junctions based on unconventional superconductors with diffusive barriers, using the quasiclassical Green's function formalism. Generalized boundary conditions at junction interfaces applicable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Yokoyama , Y. Tanaka , A. A. Golubov

We investigate superconducting quantum interference devices consisting of two highly transmissive Josephson junctions coupled by a superconducting loop, all defined in an epitaxial InAs/Al heterostructure. A novel device design allows for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 F. Nichele , E. Portolés , A. Fornieri , A. M. Whiticar , A. C. C. Drachmann , T. Wang , G. C. Gardner , C. Thomas , A. T. Hatke , M. J. Manfra , C. M. Marcus

The Josephson Effect provides a primary signature of single spin superconductivity (SSS), the as yet unobserved superconducting state which was proposed recently as a low temperature phase of half-metallic antiferromagnets. These materials…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Robert E. Rudd , Warren E. Pickett

We study a singlet-triplet Josephson junction between a conventional s-wave superconductor and an unconventional p$_{\rm x}$-wave superconductor. The Andreev spectrum of the junction yields a spontaneous magnetization in equilibrium. This…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-23 Lars Elster , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer

In this work, we investigate the Josephson effect between a two-band superconductor either with the $s++$ (two energy gaps have the same sign and are fully gapped) pairing symmetry or $s\pm$ (two energy gaps have $\pi$ phase difference and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-07-12 Shi-Zeng Lin

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…

Inspired by recent experimental findings that will be presented elsewhere, we formulate and investigate a model of a superconducting junction that combines the electron propagation in a quantum channel with an arbitrary transmission, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 Hristo Barakov , Yuli V. Nazarov

We consider phase-biased Josephson junctions with spin-orbit coupling under external magnetic fields and study the emergence of the Josephson diode effect in the presence of Majorana bound states. We show that junctions having middle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-08 Jorge Cayao , Naoto Nagaosa , Yukio Tanaka

The formation of electron pairs is a prerequisite of superconductivity. The fermionic nature of electrons yields four classes of superconducting correlations with definite symmetry in spin, space and time. Here, we suggest double quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Björn Sothmann , Stephan Weiss , Michele Governale , Jürgen König

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

We consider a model of a Josephson junction of two topological superconducting wires mediated by an interacting quantum dot. An additional normal electrode coupled to the dot from the top allows to probe its density of states. The Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 Piotr Stefański

The study of superconductor-ferromagnet interfaces has generated great interest in the last decades, leading to the observation of spin-aligned triplet supercurrents and 0-pi transitions in Josephson junctions where two superconductors are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-04 R. Caruso , D. Massarotti , G. Campagnano , A. Pal , H. G. Ahmad , P. Lucignano , M. Eschrig , M. G. Blamire , F. Tafuri

We investigate transport properties of junctions between two spin-split superconductors linked by a spin-polarized tunneling barrier. The spin-splitting fields in the superconductors (S) are induced by adjacent ferromagnetic insulating (FI)…

We consider two-dimensional superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor junctions and investigate the subgap modes along the junction interface. The subgap modes exhibit characteristics similar to the Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states that originate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-29 Yinan Fang , Seungju Han , Stefano Chesi , Mahn-Soo Choi

Superconductivity is a quantum phenomena arising, in its simplest form, from pairing of fermions with opposite spin into a state with zero net momentum. Whether superconductivity can occur in fermionic systems with unequal number of two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 H. Mayaffre , S. Kramer , M. Horvatić , C. Berthier , K. Miyagawa , K. Kanoda , V. F. Mitrović

Andreev bound states are fermionic states localized in weak links between superconductors which can be occupied with spinful quasiparticles. Microwave experiments using superconducting circuits with InAs/Al nanowire Josephson junctions have…