A spin-triplet superconductor ring is predicted to link its supercurrent circulation to the skyrmion density of its d-vector field, enabling a weak-link-free SQUID with 4π phase slips and a tank-circuit detection scheme.
Topological hydrodynamics in spin-triplet superconductors
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Due to the structure of the underlying SO(3) $\mathbf d$-vector order parameter, spin triplet superconductors exhibit a bulk-edge correspondence linking the circulation of supercurrent to the bulk magnetic skyrmion density, giving rise to topological hydrodynamics of magnetic skyrmions. To probe the interplay of charge and spin dynamics, we propose a blueprint for a spin-triplet superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), which functions without a Josephson weak link. The triplet SQUID undergoes nonsingular $4\pi$ phase slips, in which current relaxation is facilitated by spin dynamics that trace out a magnetic skyrmion texture. Inductively coupling the device to a tank circuit and probing the nonlinear supercurrent response via Oersted field measurements could provide an experimental signature of ferromagnetic spin-triplet superconductivity.
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Topological hydrodynamics in spin-triplet superconductors
A spin-triplet superconductor ring is predicted to link its supercurrent circulation to the skyrmion density of its d-vector field, enabling a weak-link-free SQUID with 4π phase slips and a tank-circuit detection scheme.