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Spin Hall effects are a collection of relativistic spin-orbit coupling phenomena in which electrical currents can generate transverse spin currents and vice versa. Although first observed only a decade ago, these effects are already…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-13 Jairo Sinova , Sergio O. Valenzuela , J. Wunderlich , C. H. Back , T. Jungwirth

Since the concept of spin superconductor was proposed, all the related studies concentrate on spin-polarized case. Here, we generalize the study to spin-non-polarized case. The free energy of non-polarized spin superconductor is obtained,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-11-20 Peng Lv , Zhi-qiang Bao , Ai-Min Guo , X. C. Xie , Qing-Feng Sun

Introducing internal degrees of freedom in the description of topological insulators has led to a myriad of theoretical and experimental advances. Of particular interest are the effects of periodic perturbations, either in time or space, as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Ioannis Petrides , Oded Zilberberg

Electrodynamics of superconductors is primarily the electrodynamics of the Meissner state, a state characterized by zero magnetic induction of a superconducting fraction of conduction electrons. Simultaneously, the Meissner state is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-10-25 Vladimir Kozhevnikov

We show that pure spin Hall current, flowing out of a four-terminal phase-coherent two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) within inversion asymmetric semiconductor heterostructure, contains contributions from both the extrinsic mechanisms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , Liviu P. Zarbo

The Meissner effect is studied by using an approach based on Newton and Maxwell's equations. The objective is to assess the relevance of London's equation and shed light on the connection between the Meissner and skin effects. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-05 Jacob Szeftel , Nicolas Sandeau , Antoine Khater

A formula of the spin current in mesoscopic superconductors is derived from the mean-field theory of superconductivity. The spin flow is generated by the spatial fluctuations of $\vec{d}$ which represents a spin state of spin-triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Asano

We argue that spin-sensitive quasiparticle scattering may generate electron-hole imbalance in superconducting structures, such as, e.g., superconducting-normal hybrids with spin-active interfaces. We elucidate a transparent physical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-10-03 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We provide a theoretical description of diffusive charge and spin transport in hybrid devices containing altermagnets. Based on recently derived drift--diffusion equations for coupled charge and spin dynamics and general boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Nicolás Sigales , Tim Kokkeler , Gonzalo de Polsi , Sebastian Bergeret

When a spin-splitting field is introduced to a thin film superconductor, the spin currents polarized along the field couples to energy currents that can only decay via inelastic scattering. We study spin and energy injection into such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Lina Johnsen Kamra , Jacob Linder

Momentum and energy conservation are fundamental tenets of physics, that valid physical theories have to satisfy. In the reversible transformation between superconducting and normal phases in the presence of a magnetic field, the mechanical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-10 J. E. Hirsch

A quantum pseudo-spin model with random spin sizes is introduced to study the effects of charging-energy disorder on the superconducting transition in granular superconducting materials. Charging-energy effects result from the small…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-23 Enzo Granato , Giancarlo Jug

In the presence of spin-orbit interactions, the steady state established for spin distributions in an electric field is qualitatively different from the steady state for charge distributions. This is primarily because the steady state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dimitrie Culcer , Roland Winkler

The existence of spin-currents in absence of any driving external fields is commonly considered an exotic phenomenon appearing only in quantum materials, such as topological insulators. We demonstrate instead that equilibrium spin currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-20 Andrea Droghetti , Ivan Rungger , Angel Rubio , Ilya V. Tokatly

Recent years have seen a number of instances where magnetism and superconductivity intrinsically coexist. Our focus is on the case where spin-triplet superconductivity arises out of ferromagnetism, and we make a hydrodynamic analysis of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-10 Se Kwon Kim , Suk Bum Chung

Theoretical explanation of the Meissner effect involves proportionality between current density and vector potential [1], which has many deep consequences. Amongst them, one can speculate that superconductors in a magnetic field "find an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-08-07 Armen M. Gulian

Spin current is a central theme in spintronics, and its generation is a keen issue. The spin-polarized current injection from the ferromagnet, spin battery, and spin Hall effect have been used to generate spin current, but Ohmic currents in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-05 James Jun He , Kanta Hiroki , Keita Hamamoto , Naoto Nagaosa

The structure of the Meissner effect in a current-carrying cylindrical wire with arbitrary disorder is studied using a numerical procedure that is exact within the semiclassical approximation. A distribution of currents is found that is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Sánchez-Cañizares , J. Ferrer , F. Sols

The coherent optical injection and temporal decay of spin and charge currents in semiconductor heterostructures is described microscopically, including excitonic effects, carrier LO-phonon and carrier-carrier scattering, as well as…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Huynh Thanh Duc , T. Meier , S. W. Koch

A fully consistent model to study electrodynamics for superconductors in the stationary and non-stationary regime has been developed based on Proca equations and a massive photon. In particular, this approach has been applied to study the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Tajmar