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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

We constructed tight-binding models for the new superconductor SrPtAs according to first principle calculations, and by functional renormalization group we investigated the effect of electron correlations and spin-orbital coupling (SOC) in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-09 Wan-Sheng Wang , Yang Yang , Qiang-Hua Wang

Ferromagnetism and superconductivity are generally considered to be antagonistic phenomena in condensed matter physics. Here, we theoretically study the interplay between the ferromagnetic and superconducting orders in a recent discovered…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-09 Tian-Zhong Yuan , Mu-Yuan Zou , Wen-Tao Jin , Xin-Yuan Wei , Xu-Guang Xu , Wei Li

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…

In general, conventional superconductivity should not occur in a ferromagnet, though it has been seen in iron under pressure. Moreover, theory predicts that the current is always carried by pairs of electrons in a spin singlet state, so…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 R. S. Keizer , S. T. B. Goennenwein , T. M. Klapwijk , G. Miao , G. Xiao , A. Gupta

Spin transport in superconductors offers a compelling platform to merge the dissipationless nature of superconductivity with the functional promise of spin-based electronics. A significant challenge in achieving spin polarisation in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Aleix Barrera , Huidong Li , Thomas Gunkel , Jordi Alcalà , Silvia Damerio , Can Onur Avci , Anna Palau

NbRe is a non-centrosymmetric superconductor that has been proposed as a candidate for intrinsic spin-triplet pairing. However, a conclusive demonstration of triplet pairing in NbRe is yet to be found. To probe the presence of equal-spin…

Shedding light on the nature of spin-triplet superconductivity has been a long-standing quest of solid-state physics since the discovery of superfluidity in liquid $^3$He. Nevertheless, the mechanism of spin-triplet pairing is much less…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-27 Sahinur Reja , Satoshi Nishimoto

Conventional two-dimensional superconductivity is destroyed when the critical in-plane magnetic field exceeds the so-called Pauli limit. Some monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides lack inversion symmetry and the strong spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-04 Sourabh Patil , Gaomin Tang , Wolfgang Belzig

We study a proximity junction between a conventional s-wave superconductor and a conductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, with a specific focus on the spin structure of the induced pairing amplitude. We find that spin-triplet pairing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-23 Christopher R. Reeg , Dmitrii L. Maslov

A general quasi-phenomenological theory that describes phases and phase transitions of ferromagnetic superconductors with spin-triplet electron Cooper pairing is presented. The theory is based on extended Ginzburg-Landau expansion in powers…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-05-26 Dimo I. Uzunov

We investigate the proximity effect in diffusive superconducting hybrid structures with a spin-orbit (SO) coupling. Our study is focused on the singlet-triplet conversion and the generation of long-range superconducting correlations in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 F. S. Bergeret , I. V. Tokatly

We theoretically study the superconducting properties of multi-band two-dimensional transition metal oxide superconductors by analyzing not only the role played by conventional singlet pairings, but also by the triplet order parameters,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-12 L. Lepori , D. Giuliano , A. Nava , C. A. Perroni

A small number of superconductors are believed to exhibit intrinsic spin triplet pairing, and they are often discussed in terms of a simple, $^3$He-like picture where ferromagnetic spin fluctuations provide the "glue". However, in some…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-08 Andreas Kreisel , Yundi Quan , P. J. Hirschfeld

The interplay between unconventional superconductivity and altermagnetic order has attracted much attentions. In particular, whether spin-triplet superconductivity can be achieved by suppressing altermagnetism remains an open issue. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-15 Xin Ma , Siqi Wu , Zilong Li , Lunhui Hu , Jianhui Dai , Chao Cao

In non-centrosymmetric superconductors, spin-orbit coupling can induce an unconventional superconducting state with a mixture of s-wave spin-singlet and p-wave spin-triplet channels, which leads to a variety of exotic phenomena, including…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-10-03 Jiabin Yu , Chao-Xing Liu

Identifying superconducting materials with spin-polarized Cooper pairs is an important objective both for exploration of new fundamental physics and for cryogenic applications in spintronics and quantum sensing. We here compute the critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-12 Erik Wegner Hodt , Carla Cirillo , Angelo Di Bernardo , Carmine Attanasio , Jacob Linder

An in-plane magnetic field applied to an Ising superconductor converts spin-singlet Cooper pairs to spin-triplet ones. In this work, we study a Josephson junction formed by two Ising superconductors that are proximitized by ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Gaomin Tang , Raffael L. Klees , Christoph Bruder , Wolfgang Belzig

The spin-orbit coupling can lead to exotic states of matter and unexpected behavior of the system properties. In this paper, we investigate the influence of spin-orbit coupling induced by proximity effects on a monolayer of superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-09 Andrzej Ptok , Karen Rodríguez , Konrad Jerzy Kapcia

The presence of a spin-flip potential at the interface between a superconductor and a ferromagnetic metal allows for the generation of equal-spin spin-triplet Cooper pairs. These Cooper pairs are compatible with the exchange interaction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-02 Daniel Fritsch , James F. Annett