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We investigate numerically a long Josephson junction with several phase pi-discontinuity points. Such junctions are usually fabricated as a ramp between an anisotropic cuprate superconductor like YBCO and an isotropic metal superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Goldobin , D. Koelle , R. Kleiner

We study subgap transport in a ferromagnet-superconductor junction at low temperature due to Andreev reflection. The mismatch of spin polarized current in the ferromagnet and spinless current in the superconductor results in an additional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Edward McCann , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We study the Josephson current, I_J, in a junction consisting of two s-wave superconductors that are separated by a ferromagnetic barrier possessing a magnetic and non-magnetic scattering potential, g and Z, respectively. We discuss the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-05-12 Boris Kastening , Dirk K. Morr , Lambert Alff , Karl Bennemann

The first evidence of anomalous Josephson effect is reported in mesoscopic superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) junctions forming a crosslike Andreev Interferometer in the absence of magnetic and spin-orbit interactions normally…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-02 D. Margineda , J. S. Claydon , F. Qejvanaj , C. Checkley

Charge and spin Josephson currents in a ballistic superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junction with spin-triplet pairing symmetry are studied using the quasiclassical Eilenberger equation. The gap vector of superconductors has an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 Yousef Rahnavard , Gholamreza Rashedi , Takehito Yokoyama

We study the Josephson effect in a superconductor/altermagnet/superconductor (S/AM/S) junction. We find anomalous phenomena including $0$-$\pi$ transition as well as multi-nodal current-phase relations. Similar to $d$-wave superconductor,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-02 Bo Lu , Kazuki Maeda , Hiroyuki Ito , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka

We study a diffusive superconductor--ferromagnet--superconductor (SFS) junction with in-plane ferromagnetic domains. Close to the superconducting transition temperature, we describe the proximity effect in the junction with the linearized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-02 B. Crouzy , S. Tollis , D. A. Ivanov

We have measured spin-triplet supercurrent in Josephson junctions of the form S/F'/F/F'/S, where S is superconducting Nb, F' is a thin Ni layer with in-plane magnetization, and F is a Ni/[Co/Ni]n multilayer with out-of-plane magnetization.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-11 E. C. Gingrich , P. Quarterman , Y. Wang , R. Loloee , W. P. Pratt , N. O. Birge

We investigate the dependence of the current-phase relationship on the orientation of the order parameter for a pinhole between two $^3$He-B reservoirs. We show that, due to the internal spin structure of the superfluid, the energy of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 S. -K. Yip

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

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

In 2010, several experimental groups obtained compelling evidence for spin-triplet supercurrent in Josephson junctions containing strong ferromagnetic materials. Our own best results were obtained from large-area junctions containing a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-08-27 Yixing Wang , W P Pratt, , Norman O Birge

Motivated by the orientation-dependent properties of d-wave superconductors (SCs), we investigate Andreev bound states (ABSs) and Josephson current in s-wave SC/altermagnet/d-wave SC (S/AM/D) and d-wave SC/altermagnet/d-wave SC (D/AM/D)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-03 Mohammad Alipourzadeh , Yaser Hajati

On the basis of the Usadel equation we study a multi-terminal Josephson junction. This junction is composed by "magnetic" superconductors S$_{\text{m}}$ which have singlet pairing and are separated from the normal n~wire by spin filters so…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-07 Andreas Moor , Anatoly F. Volkov , Konstantin B. Efetov

We studied the anomalous Josephson current appearing at zero phase difference in junctions coupled with a ferromagnetic trilayer which has noncoplanar magnetizations. A $\pi/2$ junction with an equilibrium phase difference $\pi/2$ is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-20 Jun-Feng Liu , K. S. Chan

We develop and study theoretically a minimal model of semiconductor nanowire Josephson junction that incorporates Zeeman and spin-orbit effects. The DC Josephson current is evaluated from the phase-dependent energies of Andreev levels. Upon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Tomohiro Yokoyama , Yuli V. Nazarov

A superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor Josephson junction with anomalous phase shift (phi_0-S/F/S JJ) is a system, where the anomalous ground state shift phi_0 provides a direct magnetoelectric coupling between a magnetic moment and a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-19 G. A. Bobkov , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov

We study the Josephson effect in planar $SF_1F_2S$ junctions that consist of conventional $s$-wave superconductors ($S$) connected by two metallic monodomain ferromagnets ($F_1$ and $F_2$) with arbitrary transparency of interfaces. We solve…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-31 Danilo Nikolić , Mihajlo Vanević , Alexander I. Buzdin , Zoran Radović

We study coherent current states in the mesoscopic superconducting weak link simultaneously subjected to the order parameter phase difference on the contact and to the tangential to the junction interface superfluid velocity in the banks.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu. A. Kolesnichenko , A. N. Omelyanchouk , S. N. Shevchenko

A ferromagnetic Josephson junction with a spin-flipper (magnetic impurity) sandwiched in-between acts as a phase battery that can store quantized amounts of superconducting phase difference $\Phi_0$ in the ground state of the junction.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-09 Subhajit Pal , Colin Benjamin