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The circuit theory of mesoscopic transport provides a unified framework to describe spin-dependent or superconductivity-related phenomena. We extend this theory to hybrid systems of normal metals, ferromagnets and superconductors. Our main…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-27 Daniel Huertas-Hernando , Yu. V. Nazarov , W. Belzig

We apply the method of two-point quasiclassical Green's function to geometries where the trajectories include interfering paths and loops. For a system of two superconducting layers separated by partially transparent interface, corrections…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Ozana , A. Shelankov

Interfaces between materials with differently ordered phases present unique opportunities to study fundamental problems in physics. One example is the interface between a singlet superconductor and a half-metallic ferromagnet, where Cooper…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-09-22 M. Eschrig , T. Löfwander

We present a theoretical study of the quasiparticle and subgap conductance of generic $X/I_{sf}/S_{M}$ junction with a spin-filter barrier $I_{sf}$, where $X$ is either a normal $N$ or a ferromagnetic metal $F$ and $S_{M}$ is a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-12 F. S. Bergeret , A. Verso , A. F. Volkov

Although the pairing glue for the attractive quasiparticle interaction responsible for unconventional superconductivity in heavy electron materials has been identified as the spin fluctuations that arise from their proximity to a magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-03 Yi-feng Yang , David Pines

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 investigate the electronic structure of twin boundaries in orthorhombically distorted high-T$_c$ materials using the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity. At low temperatures we find a local instability to a time-reversal symmetry…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Belzig , C. Bruder , M. Sigrist

The Josephson coupling of two isotropic s-wave superconductors through a small, magnetically active junction is studied. This is done as a function of junction transparency and of the degree of spin-mixing occurring in the barrier. In the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Mikael Fogelstrom

We consider the corrections to the Boltzmann theory of electrical transport arising from the Coulomb interaction in disordered conductors. In this article the theory is formulated in terms of quasiclassical Green's functions. We demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Schwab , R. Raimondi

We discuss the quasiclassical Green function method for a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of spin-orbit coupling, with emphasis on the meaning of the $\xi$-integration procedure. As an application of our approach, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cosimo Gorini , Peter Schwab , Michael Dzierzawa , Roberto Raimondi

The description of the proximity effect in superconducting/ferromagnetic heterostructures requires to use spin-dependent boundary conditions. Such boundary conditions must take into account the spin dependence of the phase shifts acquired…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Audrey Cottet

We study the proximity-induced superconducting correlations as well as the local density of states of a ferromagnet, in a ferromagnet/s-wave superconductor heterostructure. We include the effects of spin-flip scattering, non-ideal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob Linder , Asle Sudbø

Breaking of the inversion symmetry at the interface between different materials may dramatically enhance spin-orbit interaction in the vicinity of the interface. We incorporate the effects of this interfacial spin-orbit coupling (ISOC) into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Juan Borge , Ilya V. Tokatly

We present a semiclassical theory of current correlations in multiterminal chaotic dot-superconductor junctions, valid in the absence of the proximity effect in the dot. For a dominating coupling of the dot to the normal terminals and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Samuelsson , M. Buttiker

We study the impact of spin-active scattering on Andreev spectra of point contacts between superconductors(SCs) and strongly spin-polarized ferromagnets(FMs) using recently derived boundary conditions for the Quasiclassical Theory of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-08-29 Roland Grein , Tomas Lofwander , Georgo Metalidis , Matthias Eschrig

We present a combined experimental and theoretical work that investigates the magnetic proximity effect at a ferromagnetic-insulator - superconductor (FI-S) interface. The simulation is based on the boundary condition for diffusive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-21 P. Machon , M. J. Wolf , D. Beckmann , W. Belzig

We study the proximity-induced superconducting correlations in a normal metal connected to a superconductor when the interface between them is spin-active and the normal metal is ballistic or diffusive. Remarkably, for any interface spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob Linder , Takehito Yokoyama , Asle Sudbø , Matthias Eschrig

A Josephson junction made of a generic magnetic material sandwiched between two conventional superconductors is studied in the ballistic semi-classic limit. The spectrum of Andreev bound states is obtained from the single-valuedness of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-10 François Konschelle , F. Sebastián Bergeret , Ilya V. Tokatly

Transparency of the metal/superconductor interface is discussed in a frame of the Kupryanov-Lukichev (K-L) quasiclassical boundary conditions. It is shown that the original K-L boundary transparency is expressed via the single-channel…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Garcia , L. R. Tagirov

We present a simple calculational scheme for superconducting properties under magnetic fields. A combination of an approximate analytic solution with a free energy functional in the quasiclassical theory provides a wide use formalism for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Hiroaki Kusunose