scholarly journals Time-reversal invariant superconductivity of Sr2RuO4 revealed by Josephson effects

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Satoshi Kashiwaya ◽  
Kohta Saitoh ◽  
Hiromi Kashiwaya ◽  
Masao Koyanagi ◽  
Masatoshi Sato ◽  
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1998 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. R2948-R2951 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yukio Tanaka ◽  
Satoshi Kashiwaya


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Trimble ◽  
M. T. Wei ◽  
N. F. Q. Yuan ◽  
S. S. Kalantre ◽  
P. Liu ◽  
...  

AbstractA Josephson junction (JJ) couples the supercurrent flowing between two weakly linked superconductors to the phase difference between them via a current-phase relation (CPR). While a sinusoidal CPR is expected for conventional junctions with insulating weak links, devices made from some exotic materials may give rise to unconventional CPRs and unusual Josephson effects. In this work, we present such a case: we investigate the proximity-induced superconductivity in SnTe nanowires by incorporating them as weak links in JJs and observe a deviation from the standard CPR. We report on indications of an unexpected breaking of time-reversal symmetry in these devices, detailing the unconventional characteristics that reveal this behavior. These include an asymmetric critical current in the DC Josephson effect, a prominent second harmonic in the AC Josephson effect, and a magnetic diffraction pattern with a minimum in critical current at zero magnetic field. The analysis examines how multiband effects and the experimentally visualized ferroelectric domain walls give rise to this behavior, giving insight into the Josephson effect in materials that possess ferroelectricity and/or multiband superconductivity.



2019 ◽  
Vol 99 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana Arrachea ◽  
Alberto Camjayi ◽  
Armando A. Aligia ◽  
Leonel Gruñeiro


2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (16) ◽  
pp. 162602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhao Huang ◽  
Xiao Hu


2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Yanagisawa

AbstractMulti-gap superconductors exhibit interesting properties. In an N-gap superconductor, we have in general U(1)N phase invariance. This multiple-phase invariance is partially or totally spontaneously broken in a superconductor. The Nambu-Goldstone modes, as well as Higgs modes, are important and will play an important role in multi-condensate superconductors. The additional phase invariance leads to a new quantum phase, with help of frustrated Josephson effects, such as the time-reversal symmetry breaking, the emergence of massless modes and fractionally quantized-flux vortices. There is a possibility that half-flux vortices exist in two-component superconductors in a magnetic field. The half-quantum flux vortex can be interpreted as a monopole, and two half-flux vortices form a bound state connected by a domain wall. There is an interesting analogy between quarks and fractionally quantized-flux vortices in superconductors.



PIERS Online ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 1259-1263
Author(s):  
Ian Scott ◽  
Ana Vukovic ◽  
Phillip Sewell
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Author(s):  
Hubert Grün ◽  
Christian Hofer ◽  
Markus Haltmeier ◽  
Günther Paltauf ◽  
Peter Burgholzer


2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Dowling
Keyword(s):  


2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Qui ◽  
Nan Guo ◽  
Yu Song ◽  
Peng Zhang ◽  
Zhen Hu


2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Qiu ◽  
Nan T. Guo ◽  
Yu Song ◽  
Peng P. Zhang ◽  
Zhen E. Hu


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