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Phys. Rev. B 67, 174505 (2003) [5 pages]

Josephson current in the presence of a precessing spin

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Jian-Xin Zhu and A. V. Balatsky
Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA

Received 2 October 2002; published 6 May 2003

The Josephson current in the presence of a precessing spin between various types of superconductors is studied. It is shown that the Josephson current flowing between two spin-singlet pairing superconductors is not modulated by the precession of the spin. When both superconductors have equal-spin-triplet pairing state, the flowing Josephson current is modulated with twice the Larmor frequency by the precessing spin. It was also found that up to the second tunneling matrix elements, no Josephson current can occur with only a direct exchange interaction between the localized spin and the conduction electrons, if the two superconductors have different spin-parity pairing states.

© 2003 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.67.174505
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.67.174505
PACS:
74.50.+r, 73.40.Gk, 75.20.Hr