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We study thermal and charge transport in a three-terminal setup consisting of one superconducting and two ferromagnetic contacts. We predict that the simultaneous presence of spin filtering and of spin- dependent scattering phase shifts at…

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One of the most striking manifestations of electronic properties of topological insulators is the dependence of the photocurrent direction on the helicity of circularly polarized optical excitation. The helicity dependent photocurrents,…

While the thermoelectric materials progress based on the engineering of electronic and phononic characteristics is reaching a plateau, adding the spin degree of freedom has the potential to open a new landscape for alternative…

The state with a spontaneous interlayer phase coherence in a graphene based bilayer quantum Hall system is studied. This state can be considered as a gas of superfluid electron-hole pairs with the components of the pair belonging to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-12-23 D. V. Fil , L. Yu. Kravchenko

The local nonequilibrium quasiparticle distribution function in a normal-metal wire depends on the applied voltage over the wire and the type and strength of different scattering mechanisms. We show that in a setup with superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tero T. Heikkila , Tommy Vanska , Frank K. Wilhelm

We predict an enormous order-dependent quantum enhancement of thermoelectric effects in the vicinity of a higher-order `supernode' in the transmission spectrum of a nanoscale junction. Single-molecule junctions based on 3,3'-biphenyl and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 J. P. Bergfield , M. Solis , C. A. Stafford

Recently introduced magnetic materials called altermagnets (AM) feature zero net magnetization but a momentum dependent magnetic exchange field, which can have intriguing implications when combined with superconductivity. In our work, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-13 Simran Chourasia , Aleksandr Svetogorov , Akashdeep Kamra , Wolfgang Belzig

In this paper, we present the theoretical predication of a thermospin Hall effect, in which a transverse spin current can be generated in semiconductors in the presence of spin-orbit coupling by a frequency-dependent longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-05 Zhongshui Ma

Understanding depairing effects in a hybrid-superconducting interface utilizing high spin-orbit materials such as topological insulators or 1D semiconducting nanowires is becoming an important research topic in the study of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-01 S. Mohapatra , S. Mathimalar , S. Chaudhary , K. V. Raman

We examine the modified electronic states at the interface between superconducting and ferro(para)-electric heterostructures. We find that electric polarization $P$ and superconducting $\psi$ order parameters can be significantly modified…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-12-26 J. T. Haraldsen , S. A. Trugman , A. V. Balatsky

The thermopower of mesoscopic normal metal/superconductor structures has been measured at low temperatures. Effect of supercurrent present in normal part of the structure was studied in two cases: when it was created by applied external…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Zou , I. Sosnin , P. Virtanen , M. Meschke , V. T. Petrashov , T. T. Heikkila

We investigate the hydrostatic pressure dependence of interfacial superconductivity occurring at the atomically sharp interface between two non-superconducting materials: the topological insulator (TI) Bi2Te3 and the parent compound Fe1+yTe…

Using selection rules imposed by the Pauli principle, we classify pairing correlations according to their symmetry properties with respect to spin, momentum, and energy. We observe that inhomogeneity always leads to mixing of even- and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Eschrig , T. Lofwander , T. Champel , J. C. Cuevas , J. Kopu , Gerd Schön

We report the observation of a novel effect in the bilayer Pb-Bi2212 high-TC superconductor by means of angle-resolved photoemission with circularly polarized excitation. Different scattering rates, determined as a function of energy…

We study the thermopower of a junction between a metal and a strongly correlated semiconductor. Both in the electronic ferroelectric regime and in the Kondo insulator regime the thermoelectric figures of merit, ZT, of these junctions are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-07-20 Massimo Rontani , L. J. Sham

The evolution of the thermoelectric power S(T) with doping, p, of single-layer Bi2Sr2CuO6+d ceramics in the strongly overdoped region is studied in detail. Analysis in term of drag and diffusion contributions indicates a departure of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. Konstantinovic , G. Le Bras , A. Forget , D. Colson , F. Jean , G. Collin , M. Ocio , C. Ayache

The microscopic pairing mechanism for superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene remains an open question. Recent experimental studies seem to rule out a purely electronic mechanism due to the insensitivity of the critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-19 Liangtao Peng , Indra Yudhistira , Giovanni Vignale , Shaffique Adam

We report the existence of dissipationless currents in bilayer superconductors above the critical temperature $T_c$, assuming that the superconducting phase transition is dominated by phase fluctuations. Using a semiclassical $U(1)$ lattice…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-12 Guido Homann , Marios H. Michael , Jayson G. Cosme , Ludwig Mathey

We reconsider the problem of the superconducting proximity effect in a diffusive ferromagnet bounded by tunneling interfaces, using spin-dependent boundary conditions. This introduces for each interface a phase-shifting conductance Gphi…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Audrey Cottet , Wolfgang Belzig

When biased at a voltage just below a superconductor's energy gap, a tunnel junction between this superconductor and a normal metal cools the latter. While the study of such devices has long been focussed to structures of submicron size and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 H Courtois , Hung Q. Nguyen , Clemens Winkelmann , J. P. Pekola