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Properties of superconductor-antiferromagnet-superconductor Josephson junctions in SO(5) theory

B. C. den Hertog, A. J. Berlinsky, C. Kallin

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.R11645 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We derive the qualitative behavior of superconductor-antiferromagnet-superconductor (SAS) Josephson junctions described by Zhang’s SO(5) theory. The main differences between these junctions and conventional superconductor-insulator-superconductor junctions arise from the nonsinusoidal current-phase relation derived by Demler et al. for thin SAS junctions. Using a simple approximation to this nonsinusoidal function, the current voltage relation, Shapiro steps, thermal fluctuation effects, and the diffraction pattern in a magnetic field are obtained.

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