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We study the spin transport in the low temperature regime (often referred to as the precession-dominated regime) between a ferromagnetic Fermi liquid (FFL) and a normal metal metallic Fermi liquid (NFL), also known as the F/N junction,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Hua Li , Kevin S Bedell

We investigate transport and thermoelectric properties of hybrid systems based on a single-level quantum dot and one superconducting lead. The other lead is generally normal-metallic ferromagnet. In the latter case single-particle transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 Piotr Trocha , Józef Barnaś

We provide a microscopic theory for the Doppler velocimetry of spin propagation in the presence of spatial inhomogeneity, driving electric field and the spin orbit coupling in semiconductor quantum wells in a wide range of temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 M. Q. Weng , M. W. Wu

We investigate the effect of Zeeman-splitting on quasiparticle transport in normal-superconducting-normal (NSN) aluminum single electron transistors (SETs). In the above-gap transport the interplay of Coulomb blockade and Zeeman-splitting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. J. Ferguson , S. E. Andresen , R. Brenner , R. G. Clark

Spin transport currents and the spin-transfer torques in voltage-biased superconducting-ferromagnetic nanopillars (SFNFS point contacts) are computed. We develop and implement an algorithm based on the Ricatti formulation of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-11-17 Erhai Zhao , J. A. Sauls

We present a theory for a complete reconstruction of non-local spin correlations in ferromagnet-normal conductors. This quantum spin tomography is based on cross correlation measurements of electric currents into ferromagnetic terminals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 P. Samuelsson , Arne Brataas

The coherent mixing of the current states in the superconducting weak link subject to a Josephson phase difference $\phi$ and subject to an external transport current in the banks is one of the aims of this work. At $\phi=\pi $ the nonlocal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Gholamreza Rashedi

Results of theoretical study of spin-polarized tunneling in ferromagnet/superconductor junctions are presented. Spin and charge currents are calculated as a function of applied voltage and spin polarization in a ferromagnet. The model takes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. A. Golubov

High-transition-temperature (high-Tc) superconductivity develops near antiferromagnetic phases, and it is possible that magnetic excitations contribute to the superconducting pairing mechanism. To assess the role of antiferromagnetism, it…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 E. M. Motoyama , G. Yu , I. M. Vishik , O. P. Vajk , P. K. Mang , M. Greven

Many superconducting devices rely on the finite gap in the excitation spectrum of a superconductor: thanks to this gap, at temperatures much smaller than the critical one the number of excitations (quasiparticles) that can impact the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-05 P. B. Fischer , G. Catelani

We show that the spin pumping from ferromagnetic insulator into the adjacent metallic spin sink can be strongly stimulated by the superconducting correlations. The key physical mechanism responsible for this effect is the presence of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-18 M. A. Silaev

Propagation and relaxation of nonequilibrium quasiparticles in superconductors are of key importance for functioning of numerous nanoscale devices, enabling operation of some of them, and limiting the performance of the others. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-21 Maciej Zgirski , Marek Foltyn , Alexander Savin , Andrii Naumov , Konrad Norowski

The distribution is calculated of the electron spin polarization under current-driven spin injection from a probe to a ferromagnetic film. It is shown that the main parameters determining difference of the spin polarization from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-12-15 S. G. Chigarev , E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , A. I. Panas , V. G. Shofman , P. E. Zilberman

We present a study of spin transport in charge and spin inhomogeneous semiconductor systems. In particular, we investigate the propagation of spin-polarized electrons through a boundary between two semiconductor regions with different…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Dan Csontos , Sergio E. Ulloa

Using exact diagonalization, Monte-Carlo, and mean-field techniques, characteristic temperature scales for ferromagnetic order are discussed for the Ising and the classical anisotropic Heisenberg model on finite lattices in one and two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-12 E. Y. Vedmedenko , N. Mikuszeit , T. Stapelfeldt , R. Wieser , M. Potthoff , A. Lichtenstein , R. Wiesendanger

Using a metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) structure with a high-quality CoFe/n^+Si contact, we systematically study spin injection and spin accumulation in a nondegenerated Si channel with a doping density of ~…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-16 K. Hamaya , Y. Ando , K. Masaki , Y. Maeda , Y. Fujita , S. Yamada , K. Sawano , M. Miyao

We use the Boltzmann transport theory in the relaxation time approximation to describe the thermal transport of spin waves in a ferromagnet. By treating spin waves as magnon excitations we are able to compute analytically and numerically…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-05 Vittorio Basso , Elena Ferraro , Marco Piazzi

When two fully polarized ferromagnetic (F) wires with opposite polarizations make contact with a spin-singlet superconductor, a potential-induced current in wire 1 induces a non-local current of equal magnitude and sign in wire 2. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 C. J. Lambert , J. Koltai , J. Cserti

A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) can probe the inelastic spin excitations of single magnetic atoms in a surface via spin-flip assisted tunneling. A particular and intriguing case is the Mn dimer case. We show here that the existing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 F. Delgado , J. Fernández-Rossier

We study nonequilibrium transport in various open quantum systems whose systems and leads/baths are made of topological superconductors (TSs), semiconductors, and metals. Using quantum Langevin equations and Green's function method, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Nilanjan Bondyopadhaya , Dibyendu Roy