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We revisit the problem of the second harmonic generation in the current-phase relation across ferromagnetic bilayers placed between BCS superconductors. In particular, we consider a strongly spin-polarized metallic ferromagnet coupled to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-02 Niklas L. Schulz , Danilo Nikolić , Matthias Eschrig

We study the spin and charge currents flowing at the interface of an itinerant ferromagnet with a topological spin-triplet superconductor having different number of time-reversal-invariant Majorana helical modes. Depending on the number of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-30 Damien Terrade , Dirk Manske , Mario Cuoco

In this review we discuss the multifaceted problem of spin transport in hydrogenated graphene from a theoretical perspective. The current experimental findings suggest that hydrogenation can either increase or decrease spin lifetimes, which…

The long-range spin-triplet supercurrent transport is an interesting phenomenon in the superconductor/ferromagnet ($S/F$) heterostructure containing noncollinear magnetic domains. Here we study the long-range superharmonic Josephson current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-27 Hao Meng , Jiansheng Wu , Xiuqiang Wu , Mengyuan Ren , Yajie Ren

Spin current generation through non-relativistic spin splittings, found in uncompensated magnets and d-wave altermagnets, is desirable for low-power spintronics. Such spin currents, however, are symmetry forbidden in conventional collinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-04 Sajjan Sheoran , Pratibha Dev

We propose a device acting as a spin valve which is based on a double quantum dot structure with parallel topology. Using the exact analytical solution for the noninteracting case we argue that, at a certain constellation of system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-18 J. P. Dahlhaus , S. Maier , A. Komnik

We demonstrate a spin pump to generate pure spin current of tunable intensity and polarization in the absence of charge current. The pumping functionality is achieved by means of an ac gate voltage that modulates the Rashba constant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-06 Chia-Hui Lin , Chi-Shung Tang , Yia-Chung Chang

We show that injecting nonequilibrium spins into the superconducting leads strongly enhances the stationary Josephson current through a superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junction. The resulting long-range super-current through a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-11 A. G. Mal'shukov , Arne Brataas

We construct a novel scattering theory to investigate magnetoelectrically induced spin polarizations. Local spin polarizations generated by electric currents passing through a spin-orbit coupled mesoscopic system are measured by an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ph. Jacquod

In superconductors spin-split by an exchange field, thermal effects are coupled to spin transport. We show how an oscillating electromagnetic field in such systems creates spin imbalance, that can be detected with a spin-polarized probe.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-25 P. Virtanen , T. T. Heikkilä , F. S. Bergeret

Spintronics, which aims at exploiting the spin degree of freedom of carriers inside electronic devices, has a huge potential for quantum computation and dissipationless interconnects. Ideally, spin currents in spintronic devices should be…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-04-02 F. Bottegoni , M. Celebrano , M. Bollani , P. Biagioni , G. Isella , F. Ciccacci , M. Finazzi

Departing from the conventional view on superconducting vortices as a parasitic source of dissipation for charge transport, we propose to use mobile vortices as topologically-stable information carriers for spin transport. To this end, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-01 Se Kwon Kim , Roberto Myers , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

The polarization of conduction electron spins due to an electrical current is observed in strained nonmagnetic semiconductors using static and time-resolved Faraday rotation. The density, lifetime, and orientation rate of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Kato , R. C. Myers , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

We consider a thin-film normal metal/superconductor junction in the presence of an externally applied in-plane magnetic field for several symmetries of the superconducting order parameter. For p-wave superconductors, a strongly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob Linder , Takehito Yokoyama , Yukio Tanaka , Asle Sudbø

We demonstrate theoretically that the spin polarization of current can be electrically amplified within nonmagnetic semiconductors by exploiting the fact the spin current, compared to the charge current, is weakly perturbed by electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. -W. Jung , H. -W. Lee

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

Spin superfluids enable long-distance spin transport through classical ferromagnets by developing topologically stable magnetic textures. For small spins at low dimensions, however, the topological protection suffers from strong quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Silas Hoffman , Daniel Loss , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Spin fluctuation and transition have always been one of central topics of magnetism and condensed matter science. Experimentally, the spin fluctuation is found transcribed onto scattering intensity in the neutron scattering process, which…

Conversion of thermal energy into magnonic spin currents and/or effective electric polarization promises new device functionalities. A versatile approach is presented here for generating and controlling open circuit magnonic spin currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Xi-guang Wang , L. Chotorlishvili , Guang-hua Guo , J. Berakdar

The demonstration of the generation and control of a pure spin current (without net charge flow) by electric fields and/or temperature gradient has been an essential leap in the quest for low-power consumption electronics. The key issue of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-10 Chenglong Jia , Jamal Berakdar