Josephson effect of superconductors with J=32 electrons

Dakyeong Kim; Shingo Kobayashi; Yasuhiro Asano

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.103.184516

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Josephson effect of superconductors with J=32 electrons

Dakyeong Kim, Shingo Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Asano

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.184516 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

The angular momentum of an electron is characterized well by pseudospin with J=32 in the presence of strong spin-orbit interactions. We study theoretically the Josephson effect of superconductors in which two such J=32 electrons form a Cooper pair. Within even-parity symmetry class, pseudospin-quintet pairing states with J=2 can exist as well as pseudospin-singlet states with J=0. We focus especially on the Josephson selection rule among these even-parity superconductors. We find that the selection rule between quintet states is more severe than that between spin-triplet states formed by two S=12 electrons. The effects of a pseudospin-active interface on the selection rule are discussed as well as those of odd-frequency Cooper pairs generated by pseudospin-dependent band structures.

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