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Recently, split-ring bosonic condensates of exciton polaritons have been proposed for realisation of qubits. We formulate an analytical model of a polariton condensate in a one-dimensional ring split by a delta-function potential. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-08 Sevak Demirchyan , Igor Chestnov , Kirill Kondratenko , Alexey Kavokin

We show that nonequilibrium spin injection into a superconductor can generate an anomalous supercurrent or induce a phase gradient, even for spin voltages below the superconducting gap. Our mechanism does not require breaking time-reversal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-30 I. V. Tokatly , Y. Lu , F. S. Bergeret

We discuss theoretically the properties of an electromechanical oscillating system whose operation is based upon the cyclic conservative conversion between gravitational potential, kinetic, and magnetic energies. The system consists of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Osvaldo F. Schilling

Electric control over magnetic interactions at the level of individual spins is relevant for a variety of quantum applications, such as qubits, memory and sensor functionality. We show here that spin lattices and magnon gaps can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Johanne Bratland Tjernshaugen , Martin Tang Bruland , Jacob Linder

We investigate the spin-current absorption induced by an inhomogeneous spin-orbit coupling due to impurities in metals. We consider the system with spin currents driven by the electric field or the spin accumulation. The resulting diffusive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Kazuhiro Tsutsui , Kazuhiro Hosono , Takehito Yokoyama

Spin superfluidity, i.e., coherent spin transport mediated by topologically stable textures, is limited by parasitic anisotropies rooted in relativistic interactions and spatial inhomogeneities. Since structural disorder in amorphous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Hector Ochoa , Ricardo Zarzuela , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Conventional superconductors disordered by magnetic impurities demonstrate physical properties drastically different from their pristine counterparts. In our previous work [Phys. Rev. B 92, 245430 (2015)] we explored spectral and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 Daniel Persson , Oleksii Shevtsov , Tomas Löfwander , Mikael Fogelström

We study dissipationless spin transport induced by a charge supercurrent in a monolayer van der Waals superconductor under the applied magnetic field and in a bilayer superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F) heterostructure with no external field.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-12 G. A. Bobkov , A. M. Bobkov , I. V. Bobkova

We investigate quantum coherence of electron spin transported through a semiconductor spintronic device, where spins are envisaged to be controlled by electrical means via spin-orbit interactions. To quantify the degree of spin coherence,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , Satofumi Souma

During the past 15 years a new field has emerged, which combines superconductivity and spintronics, with the goal to pave a way for new types of devices for applications combining the virtues of both by offering the possibility of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-02 M. Eschrig

The conventional definition of spin current is incomplete and unphysical in describing spin transport in systems with spin-orbit coupling. A proper and measurable spin current is established in this study, which fits well into the standard…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Junren Shi , Ping Zhang , Di Xiao , Qian Niu

We investigate Superconductor/Ferromagnet (S/F) hybrid structures in the dirty limit, described by the Usadel equations. More precisely, the oscillations of the critical temperature and critical current with the thickness of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Faure , A. I. Buzdin , A. A. Golubov , M. Yu. Kupriyanov

Superfluid vortices are quantum excitations carrying quantized amount of orbital angular momentum in a phase where global symmetry is spontaneously broken. We address a question of whether magnetic vortices in superconductors with dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-07 Kenji Fukushima , Yoshimasa Hidaka , Ho-Ung Yee

The symmetry requirements for realizing unconventional compensated magnets with spin-polarized bands such as altermagnets have recently been uncovered. The most recent addition to this family of magnets is parity-odd or $p$-wave magnets. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-10 Pavlo Sukhachov , Hans Gløckner Giil , Bjørnulf Brekke , Jacob Linder

Spintronics, or spin electronics, involves the study of active control and manipulation of spin degrees of freedom in solid-state systems. This article reviews the current status of this subject, including both recent advances and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Igor Zutic , Jaroslav Fabian , S. Das Sarma

We introduce a previously unknown spin-related transport phenomenon, consisting in a transformation (swapping) of spin currents, in which the spin direction and the direction of flow are interchanged. Swapping is due to the spin-orbit…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-02-26 Maria B. Lifshits , Michel I. Dyakonov

We calculate the average persistent current in a normal conducting, mesoscopic ring in the diffusive regime. In the presence of magnetic impurities, a contribution to the persistent current is identified, which is related to fluctuations in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Schwab , U. Eckern

Electron tunneling between superconductors and normal metals has been used for an efficient refrigeration of electrons in the latter. Such cooling is a non-linear effect and usually requires a large voltage. Here we study the electron…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-13 Mikel Rouco , Tero T. Heikkilä , F. Sebastian Bergeret

The concept of a spin-current is a useful tool in understanding spin-transport in hybrid systems, but its very definition is problematic in systems where spin-orbit coupling effects are strong. In the absence of spin-dependent scattering,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jacob Linder , Takehito Yokoyama , Asle Sudbø

A persistent current qubit has two quantum states with opposite currents flowing in a superconducting loop. Their magnetic field couple to nuclear spins. The qubit state is not only perturbed by the spins but it also gets entangled with the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacek Dziarmaga