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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 compute the effect of a d-wave magnetization (altermagnetism) on the spectrum of bound states (Andreev levels) in a junction between two s-wave superconductors (gap $\Delta_0$, phase difference $\phi$). Compared to a nonmagnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-23 C. W. J. Beenakker , T. Vakhtel

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 show that the two-band nature of noncentrosymmetric superconductors leads naturally to an anomalous Josephson current appearing at zero phase difference in a clean noncentrosymmetric superconductor/ferromagnet/noncentrosymmetric…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-08 Huan Zhang , Jun Wang , Jun-Feng Liu

We theoretically investigate the anomalous and diode Josephson effects in planar two-dimensional Josephson junctions with arbitrarily oriented exchange fields in two ferromagnets within the barrier, and spin-orbit coupling at the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-12 Stevan Djurdjević , Zorica Popović

The altermagnetism can achieve spin-split bands in collinear symmetry-compensated antiferromagnets. Here, we predict altermagnetic order in Janus monolayer $\mathrm{Cr_2SO}$ with eliminated inversion symmetry, which can realize the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-08 San-Dong Guo , Xiao-Shu Guo , Kai Cheng , Ke Wang , Yee Sin Ang

In the Josephson effect, coherent Cooper pair tunneling is driven by the phase difference between the superconducting order parameters on opposite sides of the junction. By analogy, differences in order parameters across a junction should…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-20 D. Chassé , A. -M. S. Tremblay

We experimentally investigate charge transport in In-CrSb and In-CrSb-In proximity devices, which are formed as junctions between superconducting indium leads and thick single crystal flakes of altermagnet CrSb. For double In-CrSb-In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 V. D. Esin , D. Yu. Kazmin , Yu. S. Barash , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

We study superconducting quantum interference in InSb flake Josephson junctions. An even-odd effect in the amplitude and periodicity of the superconducting quantum interference pattern is found. Interestingly, the occurrence of this pattern…

We discuss transport properties of fully spin-polarized triplet superconductors, where only electrons of one spin component (along a certain axis) are paired. Due to the structure of the order parameter space, wherein phase and spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-20 Eyal Cornfeld , Mark S. Rudner , Erez Berg

Contacting a bilayer ferromagnet with a singlet even-frequency superconductor allows for the realization of an effective triplet odd-frequency superconductor. In this work, we investigate the Josephson effect between superconductors with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-23 Caroline Richard , Alexandre Buzdin , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer

Superconductivity and magnetism are competing effects that can coexist in certain regimes. Their co-existence leads to unexpected new behaviors that include the onset of exotic electron pair mechanisms and topological phases. In this work,…

We calculate the dc supercurrent through a Josephson tunnel junction consisting of an antiferromagnetic (AF) interlayer sandwiched between two d-wave superconductors (d). Such d/AF/d junctions exhibit a rich dependence of the Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Brian M. Andersen , Yu. S. Barash , S. Graser , P. J. Hirschfeld

Using a simple theoretical model, we demonstrate the emergence of odd-frequency pair amplitudes in conventional Josephson junctions both in the absence of a voltage (DC effect) and in the presence of a finite voltage (AC effect). In both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-04-20 Alexander V. Balatsky , Sergey S. Pershoguba , Christopher Triola

Altermagnets are an emergent class of materials combining features of ferro- and antiferro-magnetic materials. They have spin-separated bands normally associated with ferromagnets, but a vanishing net magnetization. Moreover the symmetries…

Spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional systems is usually characterized by Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (SOC) linear in the wave vector. However, there is a growing class of materials which instead support dominant SOC cubic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Mohammad Alidoust , Chenghao Shen , Igor Zutic

Due to the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) an electric current flowing in a normal metal or semiconductor can induce a bulk magnetic moment. This effect is known as the Edelstein (EE) or magneto-electric effect. Similarly, in a bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-08 François Konschelle , Ilya V. Tokatly , F. Sebastián Bergeret

We show that Josephson $\psi$ junctions with the half-metallic (HM) weak link coupled to the superconducting (S) electrodes through the ferromagnetic (F) layers host collective excitations of magnetic moment and the Josephson phase. This…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-06 S. V. Mironov , A. I. Buzdin

Altermagnets, a novel class of collinear magnetic materials, exhibit unique spin-split band structures, yet topological insulating states in intrinsic altermagnetic systems are rare. Here, we identify monolayer Fe$_2X_2$O ($X$ = Cl, Br, I)…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-22 Yong-Kun Wang , Si Li , Shengyuan A. Yang

Altermagnetism generates exchange-type spin splitting without net magnetization and, in its $\it d$-wave form, resembles the angular symmetry of unconventional $\it d$-wave superconductivity. Whether this correspondence bears directly on…