Supercurrent Vortex Pinball via a Triplet Cooper Pair Inverse Edelstein Effect

Abstract

We consider the Josephson effect through a thin spin-orbit coupled layer in the presence of an exchange field, and discover a set of supercurrent vortices appearing in the system which can be controllably moved around in the system by varying either the direction of the exchange field, its strength, or the spin-orbit coupling magnitude via a gate voltage. We refer to this phenomenon as a supercurrent vortex pinball effect and show that its origin is the spin polarization of the triplet Cooper pairs induced in the system. The supercurrent vortices thus arise from what resembles a Cooper pair-induced inverse Edelstein effect. Our results highlight the importance of considering higher-dimensional models for superconducting hybrid structures which unveils novel phenomena that are hidden in commonly used effective 1D models.

5 pages, 5 figures

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