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When both inversion and time-reversal symmetries are broken, the critical current of a superconductor can be nonreciprocal. In this work we show that in certain classes of two-dimensional superconductors with antisymmetric spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-11 Noah F. Q. Yuan , Liang Fu

A conventional superconductor sandwiched between two ferromagnets can maintain coherent equilibrium spin current. This spin supercurrent results from the rotation of odd-frequency spin correlations induced in the superconductor by the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-10 Risto Ojajärvi , F. S. Bergeret , M. A. Silaev , Tero T. Heikkilä

Altermagnets feature antiparallel spin sublattices with $d$-, $g$-, or $i$-wave spin order, yielding nonrelativistic spin splitting without net magnetization. We show that embedding a two-dimensional $d$-wave altermagnet in a driven optical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-14 Mohsen Yarmohammadi , Libor Šmejkal , James K. Freericks

The spin-galvanic (inverse Edelstein) and inverse spin-Hall effects are calculated for a hybrid system that combines thin superconductor and Rashba-metal layers. These effects are produced by a nonequilibrium spin polarization which is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-17 A. G. Mal'shukov

We consider the Josephson effect through a thin spin-orbit coupled layer in the presence of an exchange field, and discover a set of supercurrent vortices appearing in the system which can be controllably moved around in the system by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-16 Morten Amundsen , Jacob Linder

We explore the possibilities for spin-singlet superconductivity in newly discovered altermagnets. Investigating $d$-wave altermagnets, we show that finite-momentum superconductivity can easily emerge in altermagnets even though they have no…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-29 Debmalya Chakraborty , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

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

The superconducting equivalent of giant magnetoresistance, involves placing a thin-film superconductor between two ferromagnetic layers. A change of magnetization-alignment in such a superconducting spin-valve from parallel (P) to…

Superconductor-ferromagnet tunnel junctions demonstrate giant thermoelectric effects which are being exploited to engineer ultra-sensitive terahertz radiation detectors. Here, we experimentally observe the recently predicted complete…

We consider how superconducting correlations influence spin-transfer torques in ferromagnetic superconductors. It is demonstrated that there is a novel torque arising from particle-hole interference that depends on the U(1) phase associated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-11 Jacob Linder , Arne Brataas , Zahra Shomali , Malek Zareyan

The Edelstein effect in magnetic systems enables magnetization switching via the coupling between current-induced spin accumulation and intrinsic magnetic order, and is therefore highly promising for next-generation spintronic devices.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Weiyi Pan , Jaroslav Fabian

Spin waves in ferromagnetic materials are predominantly characterized by right-handed circular polarization due to symmetry breaking induced by net magnetization. However, magnetic interactions, including the external magnetic field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Yutian Wang , Ruoban Ma , Jiang Xiao

A model is introduced describing the interplay between superconductivity and spin-ordering. It is characterized by on-site repulsive electron-electron interactions, causing antiferromagnetism, and nearest-neighbor attractive interactions,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 C. N. A. van Duin , J. Zaanen

We study a simple microscopic model for thin, ferromagnetic, metallic layers on semi-infinite bulk superconductor. We find that for certain values of the exchange spliting, on the ferromagnetic side, the ground states of such structures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Krawiec , B. L. Gyorffy , J. F. Annett

Unconventional magnetism represents a class of metallic states whose Fermi surfaces exhibit spin-dependent splittings under the non-trivial representations of the rotation group. The $d$-wave $\alpha$-phase unconventional magnetic state,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-12 Jian-Keng Yuan , Zhiming Pan , Congjun Wu

Odd-parity-wave magnets are noncollinear compensated magnets with spin-split band structure in the absence of spin-orbit coupling and dipolar interactions. In contrast to altermagnets, their spin-polarized band structure breaks inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Robin R. Neumann , Rodrigo Jaeschke-Ubiergo , Ricardo Zarzuela , Libor Šmejkal , Jairo Sinova , Alexander Mook

Metallic altermagnets are unusual collinear magnets that feature zero net magnetization with momentum-dependent spin splitting. Here, we show that this spin splitting can induce pair density wave states even in the absence of external…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-15 GiBaik Sim , Johannes Knolle

Spin pumping is an interfacial spin current generation from the ferromagnetic layer to the non-magnetic metal at its interface. The polarization of the pumped spin current $\textbf{J}_s \propto \textbf{m}\times \dot{\textbf{m}}$ depends on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Adam B. Cahaya

We present a theoretical study of the Josephson coupling of two s-wave superconductors which are connected through a diffusive contact consisting of noncollinear ferromagnetic domains. First, we consider a contact with two domains with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-30 Zahra Shomali , Malek Zareyan , Wolfgang Belzig

It was recently observed that materials showing most striking multiferroic phenomena are frustrated spin-density-wave magnets. We present a simple phenomenological theory, which describes the orientation of the induced electric polarization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Maxim Mostovoy