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The interplay of superconductivity, magnetic fields, and spin-orbit interaction lies at the heart of topological superconductivity. Remarkably, the recent experimental discovery of $\varphi_{0}$ Josephson junctions by Szombati et al., Nat.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Constantin Schrade , Silas Hoffman , Daniel Loss

We theoretically consider the spin Seebeck effect, the charge Seebeck coefficient, and the thermoelectric figure of merit in superconducting hybrid structures including either magnetic textures or intrinsic spin-orbit coupling. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Marianne Etzelmüller Bathen , Jacob Linder

The spin superconductor state is the spin-polarized triplet exciton condensate, which can be viewed as a counterpart of the charge superconductor state. As an analogy of the charge Josephson effect, the spin Josephson effect can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 W. Zeng , R. Shen

We theoretically study the coupling of electric charge and spin polarization in an equilibrium and nonequilibrium electric transport across a two dimensional Josephson configuration comprised of disordered surface channels of a three…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-12 I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , Alexander A. Zyuzin , Mohammad Alidoust

In theory of superconducting junctions, Green's function has an important role to obtain Andreev bound states, local density of states and Josephson current in a systematic way. In this article, we show how to construct Green's function on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-27 Bo Lu , Yukio Tanaka

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

We investigate Josephson junctions on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator in planar, step, and edge geometries. The elliptical nature of the Dirac cone representing the side surface states of the topological insulator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-11 Jennifer Nussbaum , Thomas L. Schmidt , Christoph Bruder , Rakesh P. Tiwari

Topological superconductivity is expected to spur Majorana zero modes -- exotic states that are also considered a quantum technology asset. Fractional Josephson effect is their manifestation in electronic transport measurements, often under…

We study the Josephson effect in spin-triplet superconductor$-$quantum anomalous Hall insulator$-$spin-triplet superconductor junctions using the nonequilibrium Green function method. The current-phase difference relations show strong…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-27 Qiang Cheng , Qing Yan , Qing-Feng Sun

We analyze the topological superconductivity and investigate the spectroscopic properties manifested by the zero-energy modes, induced in a metallic strip embedded into a Josephson-type junction. Focusing on the Majorana polarization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Szczepan Głodzik , Nicholas Sedlmayr , Tadeusz Domański

We discuss an experiment in which two magnetic insulators that both show a field-induced magnetic-ordering transition are weakly coupled to one another and are placed into an ex- ternal magnetic field. If the respective magnetic states can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-18 Andreas Schilling , Henrik Grundmann

The fractional Josephson effect has been observed in many instances as a signature of a topological superconducting state containing zero-energy Majorana modes. We present a nontopological scenario which can produce a fractional Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Jay D. Sau , F. Setiawan

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…

The magnetic analogue of the Josephson effect can be exploited to develop a new class of nano-spin oscillators that we denote as spin superfluid Josephson oscillators. Such a device, consisting of two exchange coupled easy-plane metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Yizhou Liu , Igor Barsukov , Ilya Krivorotov , Yafis Barlas , Roger K. Lake

Charge and spin transport in a junction involving two triplet superconductors and a ferromagnetic barrier are studied. We use Bogoliubov-de Gennes wavefunctions to construct the Green's function, from which we obtain the Josephson currents…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-01-12 Bogusz Bujnowski , Carsten Timm , P. M. R. Brydon

We present a theoretical study of the effect of spin-filtering on the Josephson and dissipative quasiparticle currents in a superconducting tunnel junction. By combining the quasiclassical Green's functions and the tunneling Hamiltonian…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-05 F. S. Bergeret , A. Verso , A. F. Volkov

It is known that the low-energy physics of the Josephson effect in the presence of Majorana zero modes exhibits a $4\pi$ periodicity as the Aharonov-Bohm flux varies in contrast to the $2\pi$ Josephson periodicity in usual superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 Ching-Kai Chiu , S. Das Sarma

We study all the possible different two terminal configurations of Josephson junctions containing wires of time-reversal invariant topological superconductors (TRITOPS) and ordinary superconductors, including combinations with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Liliana Arrachea , Alberto Camjayi , Armando A. Aligia , Leonel Gruñeiro

A time-reversal invariant topological superconductivity is suggested to be realized in a quasi-one dimensional structure on a plane, which is fabricated by filling the superconducting materials into the periodic channel of dielectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 E. Nakhmedov , S. Mammadova , O. Alekperov