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Superconductors connected to normal metallic electrodes at the nanoscale provide a potential source of non-locally entangled electron pairs. Such states would arise from Cooper pairs splitting into two electrons with opposite spins…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-16 A. Levy Yeyati , F. S. Bergeret , A. Martin-Rodero , T. M. Klapwijk

We formulate a theory of spin dependent transport of an electronic circuit involving ferromagnetic elements with non-collinear magnetizations which is based on the conservation of spin and charge current. The theory considerably simplifies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Arne Brataas , Yu. V. Nazarov , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Antiferromagnetism couples electron spin to its orbital motion, thus allowing excitation of electron-spin transitions by an ac electric rather than magnetic field - with absorption, exceeding that of common electron spin resonance at least…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-08-08 Revaz Ramazashvili

We consider the proximity effect in multiterminal ferromagnet superconductor (FSF) hybrid structures in which two or three electrodes are connected to a superconductor. We show that two competing effects take place in these systems: (i)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Jirari , R. Mélin , N. Stefanakis

A comprehensive theory for electronic transport in itinerant ferromagnets is developed. We first show that the Q-field theory used previously to describe a disordered Fermi liquid also has a saddle-point solution that describes a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

We study diffusive transport through ferromagnet - normal metal - ferromagnet (F-N-F) systems, with arbitrary but fixed magnetization directions of the ferromagnetic reservoirs and orientations of a magnetic field applied to the normal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel Huertas-Hernando , Yu. V. Nazarov , Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Understanding non-equilibrium spin transport through 2D ferromagnets is a theoretical challenge, as correlations produce a complex electronic structure with coexisting itinerant and localized electrons. We have developed a fully…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-29 Declan Nell , Stefano Sanvito , Andrea Droghetti

Antiferromagnetic spintronics is an emerging area of quantum technologies that leverage the coupling between spin and orbital degrees of freedom in exotic materials. Spin-orbit interactions allow spin or angular momentum to be injected via…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-10 Shannon C. Haley , Eran Maniv , Tessa Cookmeyer , Susana Torres-Londono , Meera Aravinth , Joel Moore , James G. Analytis

We study the effect of the ferromagnetic (FM) contacts on the spin accumulation in the lateral spin valve system for the collinear magnetization configurations. When an additional FM electrode is introduced in the all-metallic lateral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tae-Suk Kim , B. C. Lee , Hyun-Woo Lee

We implement self-consistent microscopic calculations in order to describe out-of-equilibrium non-local transport in normal metal-superconductor-normal metal hybrid structures in the presence of a magnetic field and for arbitrary interface…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-04-03 R. Mélin , F. S. Bergeret , A. Levy Yeyati

We simulate scattering of electrons by a chain of antiferromagnetically coupled quantum Heisenberg spins, to analyze spin-transfer effects not described by the classical models of magnetism. Our simulations demonstrate efficient excitation…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-27 Alexander Mitrofanov , Sergei Urazhdin

We develop a theory of electron transport through quantum dots that are weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads. The theory covers both the linear and nonlinear transport regime, takes non-collinear magnetization of the leads into account,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthias Braun , Jürgen König , Jan Martinek

We show that spin-orbit coupling at the interface between a superconducting film of the finite lateral size and the underlying ferromagnetic insulator with in-plane exchange field gives rise to a series of non-reciprocal effects provided…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-21 A. V. Putilov , S. V. Mironov , A. I. Buzdin

We discuss a joint microscopic theory for the laser-induced magnetization dynamics and spin transport in magnetic heterostructures based on the $s$-$d$ interaction. Angular momentum transfer is mediated by scattering of itinerant $s$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-24 Maarten Beens , Rembert A. Duine , Bert Koopmans

We have measured local and non-local conductance of mesoscopic normal-metal/superconductor hybrid structures fabricated by e-beam lithography and shadow evaporation. The sample geometry consists of a superconducting aluminum bar with two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-21 J. Brauer , F. Hübler , M. Smetanin , D. Beckmann , H. v. Löhneysen

We study electronic transport in junctions consisting of a superconductor electrode and two ferromagnet (F) leads in which crossed Andreev reflections (CAR) and elastic cotunnelings are accommodated. We model the system using an extended…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-03-01 Kuei Sun , Nayana Shah , Smitha Vishveshwara

We microscopically derive transport equations for the conduction electrons in ferromagnetic materials with an inhomogeneous magnetization profile. Our quantum kinetic approach includes elastic scattering and anisotropic spin-flip scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Christian Wickles , Wolfgang Belzig

We predict strong non-local effects in the three-terminal hybrid device, comprising the quantum dot embedded between two conducting leads and third superconducting reservoir. They result from competition between the ballistic electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 G. Michalek , T. Domanski , B. R. Bulka , K. I. Wysokinski

In semiconductor spintronic devices, the semiconductor is usually lightly doped and nondegenerate, and moderate electric fields can dominate the carrier motion. We recently derived a drift-diffusion equation for spin polarization in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. G. Yu , M. E. Flatte

Altermagnets exhibit a spin-split band structure despite having zero net magnetization, leading to special magnonic properties such as anisotropic magnon lifetimes and field-free spin transport. Here, we present a direct experimental…