Electric control of superconducting transition through a spin-orbit coupled interface

Abstract

We demonstrate theoretically all-electric control of the superconducting transition temperature using a device comprised of a conventional superconductor, a ferromagnetic insulator, and semiconducting layers with intrinsic spin-orbit coupling. By using analytical calculations and numerical simulations, we show that the transition temperature of such a device can be controlled by electric gating which alters the ratio of Rashba to Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. The results offer a new pathway to control superconductivity in spintronic devices.

9 pages, 5 figures; added a new Methods section, and added references

References in corpus (10)

• Spin Transfer Torques
• Superconducting triplet spin valve
• Strong tuning of Rashba spin orbit interaction in single InAs nanowires
• Rashba and Dresselhaus Spin-Splittings in Semiconductor Quantum Wells Measured by Spin Photocurrents
• Signature of magnetic-dependent gapless odd frequency states at superconductor/ferromagnet interfaces
• Reversible control of spin-polarised supercurrents in ferromagnetic Josephson junctions
• Intrinsic Paramagnetic Meissner Effect due to s-wave Odd-Frequency Superconductivity
• Proximity effect with noncentrosymmetric superconductors
• Spectroscopy and critical temperature of diffusive superconducting/ferromagnetic hybrid structures with spin-active interfaces
• Anisotropic Paramagnetic Meissner Effect by Spin-Orbit Coupling

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• Magnetoelectric Andreev effect due to proximity-induced non-unitary triplet superconductivity in helical metals
• Superconducting proximity effect and long-ranged triplets in dirty metallic antiferromagnets
• Conservation of spin supercurrents in superconductors
• Curvature control of the superconducting proximity effect in diffusive ferromagnetic nanowires
• Tunable superconducting critical temperature in ballistic hybrid structures with strong spin-orbit coupling
• Controlling the Superconducting Transition by Rotation of an Inversion Symmetry-Breaking Axis
• Spin-switch Josephson junctions with magnetically tunable $\sin (\delta \phi /n)$ shape
• Magnetic anisotropy of superconducting transition in S/AF heterostructures with spin-orbit coupling
• Enhanced controllable triplet proximity effect in superconducting spin-orbit coupled spin valves with modified superconductor/ferromagnet interfaces
• Neel proximity effect in superconductor/antiferromagnet heterostructures
• Electrical control of superconducting spin valves using ferromagnetic helices
• Bodge: Python package for efficient tight-binding modeling of superconducting nanostructures
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