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温度对交错磁体约瑟夫森结电流-相位关系的影响

The influence of temperature on the current-phase relation in Josephson junction with altermagnets

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  • 作为一种新型磁性材料,交错磁体具有零杂散场和自旋极化的性质.在由交错磁体构成的约瑟夫森结中,通过改变结区长度、交错磁体磁化强度等参量可诱导电流-相位关系发生0-π转变,使其在器件方面具有广泛的应用前景.本文基于BdG方程和Furusaki-Tsukada方法研究了温度对超导体/交错磁体/超导体结中约瑟夫森效应的影响,发现随着温度的变化,约瑟夫森结的电流-相位关系可以在0结,φ结和π结之间发生转变,而且可以实现三者间的连续转变.在电流-相位关系发生转变的温度附近,临界电流与温度的依赖关系可出现特殊结构,如转折点等.本文提供了温度调控交错磁体约瑟夫森结性质的方法,为后续d波交错磁体约瑟夫森结的实验展开与超导自旋电子学器件的研发提供了理论支持.

     

    As a novel class of magnetic materials, altermagnets (AMs) exhibit properties such as zero stray field and strong spin-split bands. These properties give AMs advantages over ferromagnets and antiferromagnets in forming heterostructures with superconductors. In Josephson junctions composed of AMs, the current-phase relations (CPRs) display a 0-π transition by tuning parameters such as the barrier potential and the length of AMs. The altermagnetic Josephson junctions have broad application prospects in fields such as quantum device research and quantum computing. In this study we investigate the temperature dependence of CPRs in a two-dimensional superconductor/altermagnet/superconductor Josephson junction, where we choose the dxy symmetry in the AM. Based on the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) equation and the Furusaki-Tsukada formula, we calculate the CPRs in a large scope of temperature region. We find that in addition to 0-π transitions, the junction can also develop other types of transitions including π-0, 0-φ , φ-0, φ-π ones by varying the temperature from 0 to superconducting transition temperature. As the type of CPRs changes, we find that a turning point can appear, leading to either non-monotonic behavior or an abrupt change in the second derivative of the temperature dependence of critical current. We regard that this temperature dependence of the CPRs originates from two key mechanisms: decaying pairing potential and the growing occupation of high-energy Andreev bound states with increasing temperature, where both the current magnitude in individual transport channels and the relative weight of different channels change simultaneously. This study provides a method of tuning the properties of altermagnetic Josephson junctions via temperature, offering potential support for experimental exploration of such junctions and the development of future superconducting spintronic devices.

     

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