Supercurrent-induced long-range triplet correlations and controllable Josephson effect in superconductor/ferromagnet hybrids with extrinsic SOC
arXiv:2109.00966 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.105.144502 10.48550/arXiv.2109.00966
Abstract
We predict that long-range triplet correlations (LRTC) in superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F) hybrids with extrinsic impurity spin-orbit coupling (SOC) can be generated and manipulated by supercurrent flowing in the superconducting leads along the S/F interfaces. The LRTC appear via two basic mechanisms. The essence of the first one is the generation of triplets by the superconducting spin Hall effect. These pairs are long-range in the ferromagnet under the appropriate mutual orientation of the condensate momentum and the ferromagnet magnetization. The second mechanism is based on the singlet-triplet conversion at the S/F interface followed by the rotation of the spin of the obtained short-range opposite-spin pairs via the spin current swapping mechanism. The structure of the supercurrent-induced LRTC is studied both for S/F bilayers and S/F/S Josephson junctions. We demonstrate that in S/F/S junctions, where the Josephson coupling is realized via the supercurrent-induced LRTC, the ground state phase can be switched between and in a controllable manner. The switching is performed by reversing the supercurrent in one of superconducting leads, thus realizing a new physical principle of the shifter.
12 pages, 4 figures
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