Nonreciprocal Josephson current through a conical magnet

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Autori principali: Kamra, Lina Johnsen, Fu, Liang
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author Kamra, Lina Johnsen
Fu, Liang
author_facet Kamra, Lina Johnsen
Fu, Liang
contents Superconductors can form ideal diodes carrying nondissipative supercurrents in the forward direction and dissipative currents in the backward direction. The Josephson diode has proven to be a promising design where the junction between the two superconductors comprises the weakest link and thus provides the dominant mechanism. We here propose a Josephson diode based on a single magnetic material with a conical spin structure. The helical spin rotation produces Rashba-like band splitting inversely proportional to the rotation period. Together with the Zeeman splitting caused by the time-reversal symmetry breaking of the noncoplanar spin texture, this results in a large diode efficiency close to the $0-π$ transition of the magnetic Josephson junction.
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spellingShingle Nonreciprocal Josephson current through a conical magnet
Kamra, Lina Johnsen
Fu, Liang
Superconductivity
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Superconductors can form ideal diodes carrying nondissipative supercurrents in the forward direction and dissipative currents in the backward direction. The Josephson diode has proven to be a promising design where the junction between the two superconductors comprises the weakest link and thus provides the dominant mechanism. We here propose a Josephson diode based on a single magnetic material with a conical spin structure. The helical spin rotation produces Rashba-like band splitting inversely proportional to the rotation period. Together with the Zeeman splitting caused by the time-reversal symmetry breaking of the noncoplanar spin texture, this results in a large diode efficiency close to the $0-π$ transition of the magnetic Josephson junction.
title Nonreciprocal Josephson current through a conical magnet
topic Superconductivity
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00223