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We study spin-polarized quasiparticle transport in a mesoscopic superconductor with a spin- splitting field in the presence of co-flowing supercurrent. In such a system, the nonequilibrium state is characterized by charge, spin, energy and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-01 Faluke Aikebaier , Mihail A. Silaev , T. T. Heikkilä

We demonstrate spin pumping, i.e. the generation of a pure spin current by precessing magnetization, without application of microwave radiation commonly used in spin pumping experiments. We use femtosecond laser pulses to simultaneously…

We study spin and charge currents pumped by precessing magnetization of a single ferromagnetic layer within F|I|N or F|I|F (F-ferromagnet; I-insulator; N-normal-metal) multilayers of nanoscale thickness attached to two normal metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-16 Son-Hsien Chen , Ching-Ray Chang , John Q. Xiao , Branislav K. Nikolic

In view of their advantages for memory and storage applications, the quest to find suitable magnetic thin film heterostructures that can exhibit strong spin pumping effect persists in the scientific community. Here, the spin pumping…

Based on the Keldysh formalism, the Boltzmann kinetic equation and the drift diffusion equation have been derived for studying spin polarization flow and spin accumulation under effect of the time dependent Rashba spin-orbit interaction in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. S. Tang , A. G. Mal'shukov , K. A. Chao

We have developed a general theory for a parametric pump consisting of a nonmagnetic system with two ferromagnetic leads whose magnetic moments orient at an angle $\theta$ with respect to each other. In this theory, the leads can maintain…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Wu Junling , Baigeng Wang , Jian Wang

We develop a theory for spin transported by coherent Neel dynamics through an antiferromagnetic insulator coupled to a ferromagnetic insulator on one side and a current-carrying normal metal with strong spin-orbit coupling on the other. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 So Takei , Takahiro Moriyama , Teruo Ono , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Further development of the field of all-electric spintronics requires the successful integration of spin transport channels with spin injector/generator elements. While with the advent of graphene and related 2D materials high performance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Kristina Vaklinova , Alexander Hoyer , Marko Burghard , Klaus Kern

We consider a mesoscopic normal metal, where the spin degeneracy is lifted by a ferromagnetic exchange field or Zeeman splitting, coupled to two superconducting reservoirs. As a function of the exchange field or the distance between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tero T. Heikkila , Frank K. Wilhelm , Gerd Schoen

Photovoltaic effect, e.g., solar cells, converts light into DC electric current. This phenomenon takes place in various setups such as in noncentrosymmetric crystals and semiconductor pn junctions. Recently, we proposed a theory for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-23 Masahiro Sato , Hiroaki Ishizuka

We calculate the tunneling conductance \sigma between the surface states on the opposite sides of the ultra-thin film of a topological insulator in a parallel magnetic field B_y. The parallel magnetic produces a relative shift of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-05 Sergey S. Pershoguba , Victor M. Yakovenko

The injection of pure spin current into superconductors by the dynamics of a ferromagnetic contact is studied theoretically. Taking into account suppression of the order parameter at the interfaces (inverse proximity effect) and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-22 Jan Petter Morten , Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Wolfgang Belzig , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We address the dynamics of a single spin embedded in the tunneling barrier between two superconductors. As a consequence of pair correlations in the superconducting state, the spin displays a rich and unusual dynamics. To properly describe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jian-Xin Zhu , Zohar Nussinov , Alexander Shnirman , Alexander V. Balatsky

Ferromagnetic resonance driven spin pumping of pure spin currents from a ferromagnet into a nonmagnetic material promises new spin-functional devices with low energy consumption. The mechanism of spin pumping is under intense investigation…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-20 C. H. Du , H. L. Wang , Y. Pu , T. L. Meyer , P. M. Woodward , F. Y. Yang , P. C. Hammel

We investigate electronic thermal rectification in ferromagnetic insulator-based superconducting tunnel junctions. Ferromagnetic insulators coupled to superconductors are known to induce sizable spin splitting in the superconducting density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 F. Giazotto , F. S. Bergeret

Experimental investigations of spin-charge interconversion in magnetic bilayers comprising a ferromagnet adjacent to a topological insulator have reported scattered results on the spin-charge and charge-spin conversion efficiency.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Aurelien Manchon , Shuyuan Shi , Hyunsoo Yang

In s-wave superconductors with a small concentration of magnetic impurities, the only electronic excitations that remain available at low temperatures are the excitations of the system of localized spins. We discuss a new mechanism of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-12 Shiang-Bin Chiu , Anton Andreev , Alexander Burin , Boris Z. Spivak

We study theoretically the onset of nonuniform superconductivity in a one-dimensional single wire in presence of Zeeman (or exchange field) and spin-orbit coupling. Using the Green's function formalism, we show that the spin-orbit coupling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-14 J. Baumard , J. Cayssol , A. Buzdin

We analyze the broad range of spin-dependent nonequilibrium transport properties of hybrid systems composed of a normal region tunnel coupled to two superconductors with exchange fields induced by the proximity to thin ferromagnetic layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-21 F. Giazotto , F. Taddei , P. D'Amico , Rosario Fazio , F. Beltram

Tunneling spectroscopy between parallel two-dimensional (2D) electronic systems provides a powerful method to probe the underlying electronic properties by measuring tunneling conductance. In this work, we present a theoretical framework…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Modi Ke , Mahmoud M. Asmar , Wang-Kong Tse