Topological hydrodynamics in spin-triplet superconductors

ORAL

Abstract

Due to the structure of the underlying SO(3) 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 4π 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.

*This work is supported by NSF under Grant No. DMR-2049979. B.B. acknowledges support from the Research Council of Norway through the Centres of Excellence funding scheme, Project No. 262633, "QuSpin."

Publication: C. Dao, E. Kleinherbers, B. Brekke, Y. Tserkovnyak, Topological hydrodynamics in spin-triplet superconductors, arXiv.2508.06758 (2025)

Presenters

  • Eric Kleinherbers

    • UCLA

Authors

  • Eric Kleinherbers

    • UCLA
  • Chau Dao

    • University of California, Los Angeles
  • Bjørnulf Brekke

    • Norwegian Univ Tech (NTNU)
  • Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

    • University of California, Los Angeles