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We present measurements of Josephson junctions containing three magnetic layers with noncolinear magnetizations. The junctions are of the form $S/F^{\prime}/N/F/N/F^{\prime \prime}/S$, where $S$ is superconducting Nb, $F^\prime$ is either a…

Mesoscopic superconducting-normal-metal-superconducting (S-N-S) junctions with a large separation between the superconducting electrodes (i.e. wide junctions) exhibit nonequilibrium supercurrents, even at temperatures for which the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Nathan Argaman

We propose a route to achieve odd-parity spin-triplet superconductivity in metallic collinear antiferromagnets with inversion symmetry. Owing to the existence of hidden antiunitary symmetry, which we call the effective time-reversal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-17 Seung Hun Lee , Bohm-Jung Yang

We investigate the Josephson effect through a molecular quantum dot magnet connected to superconducting leads. The molecule contains a magnetic atom, whose spin is assumed to be isotropic. It is coupled to the electron spin on the dot via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Minchul Lee , Thibaut Jonckheere , Thierry Martin

We report on the realization of a planar, quasi-ballistic Josephson junction array using a Au micron-sized single-crystal. The system exhibits a nonlocal, multiterminal Josephson effect, where the supercurrent between any two…

Topological Josephson junctions enable nonreciprocal transport involving Majorana fermions (MFs). Here we examine a topological Josephson junction with mixed $s$+$p$-wave pairing, where topological phase transition can be driven by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-23 Shu-Tong Guan , Jin An

The long-range spin-triplet supercurrent transport is an interesting phenomenon in the superconductor/ferromagnet ($S/F$) heterostructure containing noncollinear magnetic domains. Here we study the long-range superharmonic Josephson current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-27 Hao Meng , Jiansheng Wu , Xiuqiang Wu , Mengyuan Ren , Yajie Ren

At interfaces connecting two superconductors (SCs) separated by a metallic layer, an electric current is induced when there is a disparity in the phases of the two superconductors. We elucidate this phenomenon based on the weights of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-24 Abhiram Soori

The Josephson effect is generally described as Cooper pair tunneling, but it can also be understood in a more general context. The DC Josephson effect is the pseudo-Goldstone boson of two coupled systems with a broken continuous abelian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-20 D. Chasse , A. -M. S. Tremblay

We explore a spin Josephson effect in a system of two ferromagnets coupled by a tunnel junction formed of 2D time-reversal invariant topological insulators. In analogy with the more commonly studied instance of the Josephson effect for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Qinglei Meng , Vasudha Shivamoggi , Taylor L. Hughes , Matthew J. Gilbert , Smitha Vishveshwara

We study the Josephson effect in ballistic double-barrier SIFIS planar junctions, consisting of bulk superconductors (S), a clean metallic ferromagnet (F), and insulating interfaces (I). We solve the scattering problem based on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Radovic , N. Lazarides , N. Flytzanis

We show theoretically that specular Andreev reflection occurs stably at altermagnet--superconductor interfaces, which is a phenomenon that has previously been predicted only in a limited range of materials, such as Dirac/Weyl materials with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-09 Yutaro Nagae , Andreas P. Schnyder , Satoshi Ikegaya

We analyze the pairing instability of an altermagnetic metal on a square lattice driven by an attractive nearest-neighbor interaction. This interaction enables multiple pairing channels, including even-parity extended $s$-wave and $d$-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-16 Hui Hu , Zhao Liu , Jia Wang , Xia-Ji Liu , Yoji Ohashi

Recent theoretical work highlighted unique properties of superconducting altermagnets, including the wealth of topologically non-trivial phases as well as their potential uses in spintronic applications. Given that no intrinsically…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-05 Niclas Heinsdorf , Marcel Franz

We study the surface density of states in $p$-wave unconventional magnet-spin-singlet $s$-wave superconductor hybrid systems ($p$-wave unconventional magnetic superconductors). Owing to the noncollinear spin structure in $p$-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-27 Yuri Fukaya , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka

Altermagnets provide a new route to engineer superconducting circuits without magnetic fields. We theoretically study the Andreev bound state (ABS) spectrum of a finite-width altrmagnet-based Josephson junction and show how the $d$-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Sakineh Vosoughi-nia , Michał P. Nowak

We investigate proximity-induced superconductivity in monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) in the presence of an externally generated exchange field. A variety of superconducting order parameters is found to emerge from the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-04-11 M. A. Rahimi , A. G. Moghaddam , C. Dykstra , M. Governale , U. Zülicke

We present a theoretical study of the Josephson coupling of two s-wave superconductors which are connected through a diffusive contact consisting of noncollinear ferromagnetic domains. First, we consider a contact with two domains with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-30 Zahra Shomali , Malek Zareyan , Wolfgang Belzig

Recently, altermagnets demonstrate numerous newfangle physical phenomena due to their inherent antiferromagnetic coupling and spontaneous spin splitting, that are anticipated to enable innovative spintronic devices. However, the rare…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-28 Xin Hu , Weihang Zhao , Wenjun Xia , Hanbo Sun , Chao Wu , Yin-Zhong Wu , Ping Li

We calculate the beating of $h/2e$ and $h/e$ periodic oscillations of the flux-dependent critical supercurrent $I_c(\Phi)$ through a quantum spin-Hall insulator between two superconducting electrodes. A conducting pathway along the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-28 B. Baxevanis , V. P. Ostroukh , C. W. J. Beenakker