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The spin transport inside an odd-frequency spin-triplet superconductor differs from that of a conventional superconductor due to its distinct symmetry properties. We study spin transport inside an emergent odd-frequency superconductor by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-10 Lina G. Johnsen , Jacob Linder

Superfluid spin transport $-$ dissipationless transport of spin $-$ is theoretically studied in a ferromagnetic insulator with easy-plane anisotropy. We consider an open geometry where spin current is injected into the ferromagnet from one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 So Takei , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We derive a drift-diffusion equation for spin polarization in semiconductors by consistently taking into account electric-field effects and nondegenerate electron statistics. We identify a high-field diffusive regime which has no analogue…

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

We propose the idea of a "spinguide", i.e. the semiconductor channel which is surrounded with walls from the diluted magnetic semiconductor (DMS) with the giant Zeeman splitting which are transparent for electrons with the one spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. N. Gurzhi , A. N. Kalinenko , A. I. Kopeliovich , A. V. Yanovsky

We consider spin polarized transport in a ferromagnet-insulator/semiconductor/insulator-ferromagnet (F1-I-S-I-F2) junction. We find that the spin current is strongly dependent on the spin configurations, the doping and space charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-22 Yue Yu , Jinbin Li , S. T. Chui

A lateral array of ferromagnetic tunnel junctions is used to inject and detect non-equilibrium quasi-particle spin distribution in a superconducting strip made of Al. The strip width and thickness is kept below the quasi particle spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 M. Urech , J. Johansson , N. Poli , V. Korenivski , D. B. Haviland

We investigate spin transport by thermally excited spin waves in an antiferromagnetic insulator. Starting from a stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert phenomenology, we obtain the out-of-equilibrium spin-wave properties. In linear response to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Scott A. Bender , Hans Skarsvåg , Arne Brataas , Rembert A. Duine

We study spin-polarized quasiparticle transport in a mesoscopic superconductor with a spin- splitting field in the presence of co-flowing supercurrent. In such a system, the nonequilibrium state is characterized by charge, spin, energy and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-01 Faluke Aikebaier , Mihail A. Silaev , T. T. Heikkilä

We show that a supercurrent carried by spinless singlet Cooper pairs can induce a spin accumulation in the normal metal interlayer of a Josephson junction. This phenomenon occurs when a nonequilibrium spin-energy mode is excited in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-07 Morten Amundsen , Jacob Linder

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

The electrical injection of spin polarized electrons in a semiconductor can be achieved in principle by driving a current from a ferromagnetic metal, where current is known to be significantly spin polarized, into the semiconductor via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. T. Filip , B. H. Hoving , F. J. Jedema , B. J. van Wees

We propose a mechanism whereby spin supercurrents can be manipulated in superconductor/ferromagnet proximity systems via nonequilibrium spin injection. We find that if a spin supercurrent exists in equilibrium, a nonequilibrium spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-14 Jabir Ali Ouassou , Jason W. A. Robinson , Jacob Linder

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

We analyze the charge and spin transport through a ballistic ferromagnet/insulator/superconductor junction by means of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. For the ferromagnetic side we assume that ferromagnetism may be driven by an unequal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 Gaetano Annunziata , Mario Cuoco , Paola Gentile , Alfonso Romano , Canio Noce

A theory of spin-polarized electron transport in ferromagnet-semiconductor heterostructures, based on a unified semiclassical description of ballistic and diffusive transport in semiconductors, is outlined. The aim is to provide a framework…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Lipperheide , U. Wille

We analyze the contribution of the inhomogeneous magnetic field induced by an electrical current to the spin Hall effect in metals. The Zeeman coupling between the field and the electron spin leads to a spin dependent force, and to spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 A. Hernando , F. Guinea , M. A. Garcia

When charge current passes through a normal metal that exhibits spin Hall effect, spin accumulates at the edge of the sample in the transverse direction. We predict that this spin accumulation, or spin voltage, enables quantum tunneling of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Wei Chen , Manfred Sigrist , Dirk Manske

The magnitude of spin accumulation created in semiconductors by electrical injection of spin-polarized electrons from a ferromagnetic tunnel contact is investigated, focusing on how the spin signal detected in a Hanle measurement varies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-20 S. Sharma , A. Spiesser , S. P. Dash , S. Iba , S. Watanabe , B. J. van Wees , H. Saito , S. Yuasa , R. Jansen

We study transport properties and also local density of states in a clean superconductor-normal metal-superconductor Josephson junction with triplet f-wave superconductors based on the Eilenberger equation. Effects of thickness of normal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-05 Yousef Rahnavard , Gholamreza Rashedi , Takehito Yokoyama

The spin current can result in a spin-transfer torque in the normal-metal(NM)|ferromagnetic-insulator(FMI) or normal-metal(NM)|ferromagnetic-metal(FMM) bilayer. In the earlier study on this issue, the spin relaxations were ignored or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 D. X. Li , H. Z. Shen , H. D. Liu , X. X. Yi