Identification of odd-frequency superconducting pairing in Josephson junctions

Subhajit Pal, Aabir Mukhopadhyay, Sourin Das

Published 2023-11-24Version 1

Choosing the right spin polarization of electron enables its local injection into the helical edge state with a well-defined momentum direction, despite the uncertainty principle, owing to spin-momentum locking. This fact facilitates a direct identification of odd-frequency pairing through parity measurement (under frequency reversal) of the anomalous Green's function in a setup comprising multi-terminal Josephson junction on the helical edge state of a 2D topological insulator.