Magnetic Flux Pumping in Superconducting Loop Containing a Josephson $\psi$ Junction

Abstract

We demonstrate that a Josephson junction with a half-metallic weak link integrated into the superconducting loop enables the pumping of magnetic flux piercing the loop. In such junctions, the ground state phase $\psi$ is determined by the mutual orientation of magnetic moments in two ferromagnets surrounding the half-metal. Thus, the precession of magnetic moment in one of two ferromagnets controlled, e.g., by the microwave radiation, results in the accumulation of the phase $\psi$ and subsequent switching between the states with different vorticities. The proposed flux pumping mechanism does not require the application of voltage or external magnetic field which enables the design of electrically decoupled memory cells in superconducting spintronics.

5 pages, 5 figures

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