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Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is known to play an important role in superconductor/ferromagnet heterostructures. Here we demonstrate that SOC results in the spontaneous generation of vortices in an \textit{s}-wave superconductor placed below a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-01 L. A. B. Olde Olthof , X. Montiel , J. W. A. Robinson , A. I. Buzdin

We theoretically investigate the supercurrent-induced magnetization dynamics of a two-dimensional lattice of ferromagnetically ordered spins placed on a conventional superconductor with broken spatial inversion symmetry and strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Kjetil M. D. Hals

The interplay of the electron exchange interaction and spin-orbit coupling results in spontaneous supercurrents near magnetic insulator islands, which are placed on the top of a two-dimensional (2D) superconductor, and whose magnetization…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-14 A. G. Mal'shukov

We study the response of a superconductor with a strong spin-orbit coupling on an external magnetic field. The Ginzburg-Landau free energy functional is derived microscopically for a general crystal structure, both with and without an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 K. V. Samokhin

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

Since the concept of spin superconductor was proposed, all the related studies concentrate on spin-polarized case. Here, we generalize the study to spin-non-polarized case. The free energy of non-polarized spin superconductor is obtained,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-11-20 Peng Lv , Zhi-qiang Bao , Ai-Min Guo , X. C. Xie , Qing-Feng Sun

We investigate the emergence of superconducting phases, both with zero and finite Cooper-pair center of mass momenta, in recently proposed unconventional $p$-wave magnets. As a consequence, we find that, while these magnetic phases are in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-16 Igor de M. Froldi , Hermann Freire

We show that superconducting currents are generated around magnetic impurities and ferromagnetic islands proximity-coupled to superconductors with finite spin-orbit coupling. Using the Ginzburg-Landau theory, T-matrix calculation, as well…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-29 Sergey S. Pershoguba , Kristofer Björnson , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Alexander V. Balatsky

We show that Rashba spin-orbit coupling at the interface between a superconductor and a ferromagnet should produce a spontaneous current in the atomic thickness region near the interface. This current is counter-balanced by the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-04-14 S. Mironov , A. Buzdin

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…

We study the vortex formation in extreme type-II superconductors immersed in strong magnetic fields in the framework of the the Ginzburg-Landau theory. We focus on the regime where superconductivity survives in the bulk of the material but…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 M. Correggi , A. Kachmar

The article reviews recent developments on magnetic properties of superconductors with anisotropic Cooper pairing. In particular, we show how the concept of broken symmetries is applied to the investigation of the mixed state in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 I. A. Luk'yanchuk , M. E. Zhitomirsky

We estimate the conjectured interaction between the Earth gravitational field and a superconductor immersed in external, static electric and magnetic field. The latter is close to the sample upper critical field and generates the presence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-04 Giovanni Ummarino , Antonio Gallerati

We study the interplay between superconductivity and altermagnetism in disordered systems using recently derived quantum kinetic transport equations. Starting from this framework, we derive the Ginzburg-Landau free energy and identify, in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-05 Rodrigo de las Heras , Tim Kokkeler , Stefan Ilić , Ilya V. Tokatly , F. Sebastian Bergeret

When the impurity mean free path is short, only spin-polarized Cooper pairs which are non-locally and antisymmetrically correlated in time may exist in a half-metallic ferromagnet. As a consequence, the half-metal acts as an odd-frequency…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-30 Eirik Holm Fyhn , Jacob Linder

We demonstrate that the intrinsic superconducting diode effect can affect the structure, interactions and dynamics of Abrikosov vortices in non-centrosymmetric superconductor/ferromagnet hybrid structures. The Ginzburg-Landau (GL) theory…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-10 A. V. Putilov , D. V. Zakharov , A. Kudlis , A. S. Mel'nikov , A. I. Buzdin

We propose a mechanism for the generation of pure superconducting spin-current carried by equal-spin triplet Cooper pairs in a superconductor (S) sandwiched between a ferromagnet (F) and a normal metal (N$_{\rm so}$) with intrinsic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-10-03 X. Montiel , M. Eschrig

A nonuniform in-plane Zeeman field can induce spontaneous supercurrents of spin-orbit coupled electrons in superconducting two-dimensional systems and thin films. In this work it is shown that current vortices can be created at the ends of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-09 A. G. Mal'shukov

The mechanism of the interplay between superconductivity and magnetism is one of the intriguing and challenging problems in physics. Theory has predicted that the ferromagnetic order can coexist with the superconducting order in the form of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-05 Nanami Teramachi , Yusuke Seto , Takahiro Sakurai , Hithoshi Ohta , Takashi Uchino

Breaking of time-reversal and point-group spatial symmetries can have a profound impact on superconductivity. One of the most extraordinary effects, due to the application of a magnetic field, is represented by the Abrikosov vortices with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-21 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Carmine Ortix , Francesco Giazotto , Mario Cuoco
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