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We show that superconducting correlations in the presence of non-zero condensate velocity can mediate the peculiar interaction between localized spins that breaks the global inversion symmetry of magnetic moments. The proposed interaction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-26 D. S. Rabinovich , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , M. A. Silaev

The ground state of highly damped PdNi based 0-pi ferromagnetic Josephson junctions shows a spontaneous half quantum vortex, sustained by a supercurrent of undetermined sign. This supercurrent flows in the electrode of a Josephson junction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 M. L. Della Rocca , M. Aprili , T. Kontos , A. Gomez , P. Spatkis

We study the spin transport through a 1D quantum Ising-XY-Ising spin link that emulates a topological superconducting-normal-superconducting structure via Jordan-Wigner (JW) transformation. We calculate, both analytically and numerically,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Pei-Xin Shen , Silas Hoffman , Mircea Trif

We apply a Gutzwiller-like variational technique to study Josephson conduction across a quantum dot with an odd number of electrons connected to two superconducting leads. Our method projects out all states on the dot but the Kondo singlet…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Gabriele Campagnano , Domenico Giuliano , Adele Naddeo , Arturo Tagliacozzo

A spin dynamics approach has been used to study the behavior of the magnetic spins and the electric pseudo-spins in a 1-D composite multiferroic chain with a linear magneto-electric coupling at the interface. The response is investigated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-01 Zidong Wang , Malcolm J. Grimson

We study the Josephson effect in a trijunction formed by two topological superconductor (TS) wires and a conventional $s$-wave superconductor. Using a boundary Green's function formalism, analytical results for the current-phase relation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-28 A. Zazunov , R. Egger , M. Alvarado , A. Levy Yeyati

We calculate a nondissipative spin current and show that it can flow with or without a charge current. We consider a two-band model which can be applied to the description of Fe-based pnictides in coexistence regime of superconductivity and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-30 Andreas Moor , Anatoly F. Volkov , Konstantin B. Efetov

Josephson current of spin-entangled electrons through the two branches of a SQUID-like structure with two quantum dots exhibits a magnetic-flux response different from the conventional Josephson current. Due to their interference, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-11-15 Zhi Wang , Xiao Hu

The spin-asymmetric Josephson effect is a proposed quantum-coherent tunnelling phenomenon where Cooper-paired fermionic spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particles, which are subjected to spin-dependent potentials across a Josephson junction, undergo…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-01-31 J. M. Kreula , G. Valtolina , P. Törmä

The Josephson coupling of two isotropic s-wave superconductors through a small, magnetically active junction is studied. This is done as a function of junction transparency and of the degree of spin-mixing occurring in the barrier. In the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Mikael Fogelstrom

We show that a supercurrent carried by spinless singlet Cooper pairs can induce a spin accumulation in the normal metal interlayer of a Josephson junction. This phenomenon occurs when a nonequilibrium spin-energy mode is excited in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-07 Morten Amundsen , Jacob Linder

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

A Josephson junction made of a generic magnetic material sandwiched between two conventional superconductors is studied in the ballistic semi-classic limit. The spectrum of Andreev bound states is obtained from the single-valuedness of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-10 François Konschelle , F. Sebastián Bergeret , Ilya V. Tokatly

In the past year, several groups have observed evidence for long-range spin-triplet supercurrent in Josephson junctions containing ferromagnetic (F) materials. In our work, the spin-triplet pair correlations are created by non-collinear…

We consider a ballistic Josephson junction with a quantum point contact in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The point contact acts as a spin filter when embedded in a circuit with normal electrodes. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-15 A. A. Reynoso , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro , D. Feinberg , M. Avignon

We consider a hybrid structure consisting of superconducting or normal leads with a combined ferromagnet-3D topological insulator interlayer. We compare responses of a Josephson junction and a normal junction to magnetic texture dynamics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 D. S. Rabinovich , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov

We report on the experimental characterization of a spatially extended Josephson junction realized with a coherently-coupled two-spin-component Bose-Einstein condensate. The cloud is trapped in an elongated potential such that that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-09-08 A. Farolfi , A. Zenesini , R. Cominotti , D. Trypogeorgos , A. Recati , G. Lamporesi , G. Ferrari

We theoretically analyze Josephson dynamics of superconducting weak links with transmissions ${\mathcal T}$ not much smaller than unity at subgap bias voltages $V$. Employing the effective action approach combined with the Keldysh technique…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-27 Artem V. Galaktionov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We investigate the Josephson effects in the junction formed by \emph{DIII}-class topological and $s$-wave superconductors, by embedding a quantum dot in the junction. Three dot-superconductor coupling manners are considered, respectively.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Zhen Gao , Wan-Fei Shan , Wei-Jiang Gong

We study the dynamics of macroscopically-coherent matter waves of an ultra-cold atomic spin-one or spinor condensate on a ring lattice of six sites and demonstrate a novel type of spatio-temporal internal Josephson effect. Using a discrete…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-12 Indubala I Satija , Carlos L. Pando , Eite Tiesinga