Effects of spin-orbit coupling and in-plane Zeeman fields on the critical current in two-dimensional hole gas SNS junctions

Abstract

Superconductor--semiconductor hybrid devices are currently attracting much attention, fueled by the fact that strong spin--orbit interaction in combination with induced superconductivity can lead to exotic physics with potential applications in fault-tolerant quantum computation. The detailed nature of the spin dynamics in such systems is, however, often strongly dependent on device details and hard to access in experiment. In this paper we theoretically investigate a superconductor--normal--superconductor junction based on a two-dimensional hole gas with additional Rashba spin orbit--coupling, and we focus on the dependence of the critical current on the direction and magnitude of an applied in-plane magnetic field. We present a simple model, which allows us to systematically investigate different parameter regimes and obtain both numerical results and analytical expressions for all limiting cases. Our results could serve as a tool for extracting more information about the detailed spin physics in a two-dimensional hole gas based on a measured pattern of critical currents.

arXiv comment11 pages, 5 figures

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