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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

We consider a superconducting altermagnet heterostructure and demonstrate that the interplay between altermagnetism and a selective filter of transverse momentum channels enables perfect nonreciprocal spin-polarized currents. We demonstrate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-23 Pei-Hao Fu , Jun-Feng Liu , Luca Chirolli , Jorge Cayao

An electrical current can transfer spin angular momentum to a ferromagnet. This novel physical phenomenon, called spin transfer, offers unprecedented spatial and temporal control over the magnetic state of a ferromagnet and has tremendous…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Wei , A. Sharma , A. S. Nunez , P. M. Haney , R. A. Duine , J. Bass , A. H. MacDonald , M. Tsoi

High degree of electron spin polarization is of crucial importance in operation of spintronic devices. We study the propagation of spin-polarized electrons through a boundary between two n-type semiconductor regions with different doping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-22 Yuriy V. Pershin , Vladimir Privman

We propose a mechanism which can generate supercurrents in spin-orbit coupled superconductors with charged magnetic inclusions. The basic idea is that through spin-orbit interaction, the in-plane electric field near the edge of each…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-23 Benjamin A. Levitan , Yuval Oreg , Erez Berg

We theoretically study the spin and charge generation along with the electron transport on a disordered surface of a doped three-dimensional topological insulator/magnetic insulator junction by using Green's function techniques. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Katsuhisa Taguchi , Kunitaka Shintani , Yukio Tanaka

We treat the spin injection and extraction via a ferromagnetic metal/semiconductor Schottky barrier as a quantum scattering problem. This enables the theory to explain a number of phenomena involving spin-dependent current through the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-20 L. Cywinski , H. Dery , P. Dalal , L. J. Sham

Graphene hosts an ultra-clean electronic system with electron-electron collisions being the dominant source of scattering above liquid nitrogen temperatures. In this regime, the motion of the electron fluid resembles the flow of classical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 Mamoru Matsuo , Denis A. Bandurin , Yuichi Ohnuma , Yasumasa Tsutsumi , Sadamichi Maekawa

Superconducting spintronics has emerged in the last decade as a promising new field that seeks to open a new dimension for nanoelectronics by utilizing the internal spin structure of the superconducting Cooper pair as a new degree of…

The notion of decoupling of spin and charge currents is one of the basic principles underlying the rapidly expanding feld of Spintronics. However, no direct demonstration of the phenomenon exists. We report a novel measurement, in which a…

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

We analyze spin-dependent transport through a spin-diode in the presence of spin-flip and under influence of temperature bias. The current polarization and the spin accumulation are investigated in detail by means of reduced density matrix.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-10 M. Bagheri Tagani , H. Rahimpour Soleimani

We consider thermoelectric transport properties of the edge states of a two dimensional topological insulator in a double quantum point contact geometry coupled to two thermally biased reservoirs. Both spin-preserving and spin-flipping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Flavio Ronetti , Luca Vannucci , Giacomo Dolcetto , Matteo Carrega , Maura Sassetti

The conductance mismatch problem limits the spin-injection efficiency significantly, and spin-injection into graphene has been usually requiring high-quality tunnel barriers to circumvent the conductance mismatch. We introduce a novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Zhenyao Tang1 , Eiji Shikoh1 , Hiroki Ago2 , Kenji Kawahara2 , Yuichiro Ando1 , Teruya Shinjo1 , Masashi Shiraishi1

We propose a device concept, based on monolayer stanene, able to provide highly polarized spin currents (up to a $98\%$) with voltage-controlled spin polarization operating at room temperature and with small operating voltage ($0.3$ V). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-22 Enrique G. Marin , Damiano Marian , Giuseppe Iannaccone , Gianluca Fiori

Spin-polarized supercurrents can be generated with magnetic inhomogeneity at a ferromagnet/spin-singlet-superconductor interface. In such systems, complex magnetic inhomogeneity makes it difficult to functionalise the spin-polarized…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-04 M. S. Anwar , M. Kunieda , R. Ishiguro , S. R. Lee , C. Sow , J. W. A. Robinson , S. Yonezawa , T. W. Noh , Y. Maeno

We demonstrate that spin current can be generated by an ac voltage in a one-channel quantum wire with strong repulsive electron interactions in the presence of a non-magnetic impurity and uniform static magnetic field. In a certain range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-28 Bernd Braunecker , D. E. Feldman , Feifei Li

Recent advances in the studies of pure spin currents - flows of angular momentum (spin) not accompanied by the electric currents - have opened new horizons for the emerging technologies based on the electron's spin degree of freedom, such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 V. E. Demidov , S. Urazhdin , G. de Loubens , O. Klein , V. Cros , A. Anane , S. O. Demokritov

The interface between a ferro-/ferrimagnetic insulator and a normal metal can support spin currents polarized collinear with and perpendicular to the magnetization direction. The flow of angular momentum perpendicular to the magnetization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-23 David A. Reiss , Piet W. Brouwer

Due to the difficulty to grow high quality semiconductors on ferromagnetic metals, the study of spin diffusion transport in Si was only limited to lateral geometry devices. In this work, by using ultra-high vacuum wafer-bonding technique,…

The spin-orbit interaction is frequently the mechanism by which spin and charge are coupled for spintronic applications. The discovery of spin, a century ago, relied on spin-charge coupling by a magnetic field gradient; this mechanism has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Nicholas J. Harmon , Emma Z. Kurth , Dana Coleman , Lana Flanigan