Superconducting spintronics

J Linder, JWA Robinson - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Traditional studies that combine spintronics and superconductivity have mainly focused on
the injection of spin-polarized quasiparticles into superconducting materials. However, a …

Spin-polarized supercurrents for spintronics: a review of current progress

M Eschrig - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
During the past 15 years a new field has emerged, which combines superconductivity and
spintronics, with the goal to pave a way for new types of devices for applications combining …

Time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity between twisted cuprate superconductors

SYF Zhao, X Cui, PA Volkov, H Yoo, S Lee… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Twisted interfaces between stacked van der Waals (vdW) cuprate crystals present a platform
for engineering superconducting order parameters by adjusting stacking angles. Using a …

Gate-tunable Josephson diode in proximitized InAs supercurrent interferometers

C Ciaccia, R Haller, ACC Drachmann… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
The Josephson diode (JD) is a nonreciprocal circuit element that supports a larger critical
current in one direction compared to the other. This effect has gained growing interest …

Josephson ϕ0-junction in nanowire quantum dots

DB Szombati, S Nadj-Perge, D Car, SR Plissard… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
The Josephson effect describes supercurrent flowing through a junction connecting two
superconducting leads by a thin barrier. This current is driven by a superconducting phase …

A Josephson phase battery

E Strambini, A Iorio, O Durante, R Citro… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
A classical battery converts chemical energy into a persistent voltage bias that can power
electronic circuits. Similarly, a phase battery is a quantum device that provides a persistent …

Phase engineering of anomalous Josephson effect derived from Andreev molecules

S Matsuo, T Imoto, T Yokoyama, Y Sato… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
A Josephson junction (JJ) is a key device for developing superconducting circuits, wherein a
supercurrent in the JJ is controlled by the phase difference between the two …

Anomalous Josephson effect induced by spin-orbit interaction and Zeeman effect in semiconductor nanowires

T Yokoyama, M Eto, YV Nazarov - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We investigate theoretically the Josephson junction of semiconductor nanowire with strong
spin-orbit (SO) interaction in the presence of magnetic field. By using a tight-binding model …

Supercurrent diode effect, spin torques, and robust zero-energy peak in planar half-metallic trilayers

K Halterman, M Alidoust, R Smith, S Starr - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We consider trilayer F 1 F 2 F 3 Josephson junctions that are finite in two dimensions and
have arbitrary magnetizations in each ferromagnet F i (i= 1, 2, 3). The trilayers are …

Enhance sensitivity to illumination and synchronization in light-dependent neurons

Y Xie, Z Yao, X Hu, J Ma - Chinese Physics B, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
When a phototube is activated to connect a neural circuit, the output voltage becomes
sensitive to external illumination because the photocurrent across the phototube can be …