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We calculate the dependence of the interlayer quasiparticle conductivity, $\sigma_q$, in a Josephson coupled d-wave superconductor on the magnetic field B||c and the temperature T. We consider a clean superconductor with resonant impurity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Vekhter , L. N. Bulaevskii , A. E. Koshelev , M. P. Maley

Spin-polarized transport is investigated in normal metal-superconductor (NS) junctions as a function of interface transmissivity as well as temperature when the density of states of a superconductor is Zeeman-split in response to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-03 F. Giazotto , F. Taddei

The distribution of the transport current in branches of a doubly connected superconductor (DCS) with two clamping point contacts is investigated experimentally when the contacts are in the different states: (a) one or both contacts are in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-03-19 V. P. Koverya , A. V. Krevsun , S. I. Bondarenko , N. M. Levchenko

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

We consider the charge and spin effects in low dimensional superconducting weak links. The first part of the review deals with the effects of electron-electron interaction in Superconductor/Luttinger liquid/Superconductor junctions. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Ilya V. Krive , Sergei I. Kulinich , Robert I. Shekhter , Mats Jonson

The spin polarization P of the transport current through the interface between superconducting Al and ferromagnetic Fe is determined by means of Andreev reflection at nanostructured point contacts. We observe a systematic decrease of P with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Stokmaier , G. Goll , D. Weissenberger , C. Sürgers , H. v. Löhneysen

We theoretically investigate electron spin injection and spin-polarization sensitive current detection at Schottky contacts between a ferromagnetic metal and an n-type or p-type semiconductor. We use spin-dependent continuity equations and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 J. D. Albrecht , D. L. Smith

An in-plane magnetic field applied to an Ising superconductor converts spin-singlet Cooper pairs to spin-triplet ones. In this work, we study a Josephson junction formed by two Ising superconductors that are proximitized by ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Gaomin Tang , Raffael L. Klees , Christoph Bruder , Wolfgang Belzig

We study thermal effects on pinning and creep in type-II superconductors where vortices interact with a low density $n_p$ of strong point-like defects with pinning energy $e_p$ and extension $\xi$, the vortex core size. Defects are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-10 Martin Buchacek , Vadim B. Geshkenbein , Roland Willa , Gianni Blatter

We study the Josephson effect in the spin-singlet superconductor/altermagnet/spin-triplet superconductor junctions using the Green's function method. The current-phase difference relationships in the junctions strongly depend on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-06 Qiang Cheng , Qing-Feng Sun

Spin-split superconductors exhibit an electron-hole asymmetric spin-resolved density of states, but the symmetry is restored upon averaging over spin. On the other hand, asymmetry appears again in tunneling junctions of spin-split…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-02 Stefan Ilić , P. Virtanen , T. T. Heikkilä , F. Sebastián Bergeret

A theory is offered for the ballistic 4-terminal Josephson junction. The studied system consists of a mesoscopic two-dimensional normal rectangular layer which is attached in each side to the bulk superconducting banks (terminals). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Malek Zareyan , A. N. Omelyanchouk

We present a phenomenological model for the vortex dynamics in the peak effect region of weakly pinned superconductors. We explain the history dependent dynamic response of the metastable vortex states subjected to a transport current and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Ravikumar

We theoretically study spin current through ferromagnet (F) in a Josephson junction composed of s-wave superconductors and two layers of ferromagnets. Using quasiclassical theory, we show that the long-range spin current can be driven by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Hikino , S. Yunoki

Spin-triplet Cooper pairs induced in ferromagnets form the centrepiece of the emerging field of superconducting spintronics [1,2]. Usually the focus of research is on the spin polarization of the triplets, potentially enabling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Kaveh Lahabi , Morten Amundsen , Jabir Ali Ouassou , Ewout Beukers , Menno Pleijster , Jacob Linder , Paul Alkemade , Jan Aarts

We propose and theoretically investigate spin superconducting qubits. Spin superconducting qubit consists of a single spin confined in a Josephson junction. We show that owing to spin-orbit interaction, superconducting difference across the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-07 C. Padurariu , Yu. V. Nazarov

We study trapping of a cold atom by a single vortex line in an extreme type II superconducting chip, allowing for pinning and friction. We evaluate the atom's spin flip rate and its dephasing due to the vortex fluctuations in equilibrium…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-11-20 Amir Fruchtman , Baruch Horovitz

We study the Josephson effect of a $\rm{T_1 F T_2}$ junction, consisting of spin-triplet superconductors (T), a weak ferromagnetic metal (F), and ferromagnetic insulating interfaces. Two types of the triplet order parameters are considered;…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-01 Chi-Hoon Choi

We propose a model for the theoretical description of a weak-link Josephson junction, in which the weak link is spin-polarized due to proximity to a ferromagnetic metal (S-(F|S)-S). Employing Usadel transport theory appropriate for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-08 Jan Gelhausen , Matthias Eschrig

We study the Josephson effect between weakly coupled d-wave superconductors within the quasiclassical theory, in particular, the influence of interface roughness on the current-phase relation and the critical current of mirror junctions and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Lueck , P. Schwab , U. Eckern , A. Shelankov