Spin-polarized supercurrents for spintronics: a review of current progress

M Eschrig - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
During the past 15 years a new field has emerged, which combines superconductivity and
spintronics, with the goal to pave a way for new types of devices for applications combining …

Proximity effects in superconductor-ferromagnet heterostructures

AI Buzdin - Reviews of modern physics, 2005 - APS
The proximity effect at superconductor-ferromagnet interfaces produces damped oscillatory
behavior of the Cooper pair wave function within the ferromagnetic medium. This is …

Gate-tunable Josephson diode in proximitized InAs supercurrent interferometers

C Ciaccia, R Haller, ACC Drachmann… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
The Josephson diode (JD) is a nonreciprocal circuit element that supports a larger critical
current in one direction compared to the other. This effect has gained growing interest …

Topological superconductivity in a planar Josephson junction

F Pientka, A Keselman, E Berg, A Yacoby, A Stern… - Physical Review X, 2017 - APS
We consider a two-dimensional electron gas with strong spin-orbit coupling contacted by
two superconducting leads, forming a Josephson junction. We show that in the presence of …

Finite-momentum Cooper pairing in proximitized altermagnets

SB Zhang, LH Hu, T Neupert - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Finite-momentum Cooper pairing is an unconventional form of superconductivity that is
widely believed to require finite magnetization. Altermagnetism is an emerging magnetic …

Superconductor/ferromagnet heterostructures: a platform for superconducting spintronics and quantum computation

R Cai, I Žutić, W Han - Advanced Quantum Technologies, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism in the superconductor/
ferromagnet (SC/FM) heterostructures generates many interesting physical phenomena …

The current-phase relation in Josephson junctions

AA Golubov, MY Kupriyanov, E Il'Ichev - Reviews of modern physics, 2004 - APS
This review provides a theoretical basis for understanding the current-phase relation (CΦR)
for the stationary (dc) Josephson effect in various types of superconducting junctions. The …

Odd triplet superconductivity and related phenomena in superconductor-ferromagnet structures

FS Bergeret, AF Volkov, KB Efetov - Reviews of modern physics, 2005 - APS
This review considers unusual effects in superconductor-ferromagnet structures, in
particular, the triplet component of the condensate generated in those systems. This …

Asymmetric higher-harmonic SQUID as a Josephson diode

YV Fominov, DS Mikhailov - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We theoretically investigate asymmetric two-junction SQUIDs with different current-phase
relations in the two Josephson junctions, involving higher Josephson harmonics. Our main …

Cryogenic memory technologies

S Alam, MS Hossain, SR Srinivasa, A Aziz - Nature Electronics, 2023 - nature.com
Cryogenic data storage technology is of use in superconducting single-flux quantum
electronics and quantum computing. However, the lack of compatible cryogenic memory …