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We demonstrate that spin supercurrents are conserved upon transmission through a conventional superconductor, even in the presence of spin-dependent scattering by impurities with magnetic moments or spin-orbit coupling. This is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-13 Jabir Ali Ouassou , Sol H. Jacobsen , Jacob Linder

Spin transport via electrons is typically plagued by Joule heating and short decay lengths due to spin-flip scattering. It is known that dissipationless spin currents can arise when using conventional superconducting contacts, yet this has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-26 Sol Jacobsen , Iryna Kulagina , Jacob Linder

The electrical response of two diffusive metals is studied when they are linked by a magnetic insulator hosting a topologically stable (superfluid) spin current. We discuss how charge currents in the metals induce a spin supercurrent state,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 So Takei , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Supercurrent flow can induce a nonvanishing spin magnetization in noncentrosymmetric superconductors with spin-orbit interaction. Often known as the non-dissipative magnetoelectric effect, these are most commonly found at linear order in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-20 Jin-Xin Hu , Oles Matsyshyn , Justin C. W. Song

We demonstrate theoretically that a dissipationless spin current can flow a long distance through a diffusive normal metal by using superconductors interfaced with magnetic insulators. The magnitude of this spin supercurrent is controlled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Ingvild Gomperud , Jacob Linder

The spin-orbit coupling systems with a zero magnetic field is studied under the equilibrium situation, {\it i.e.}, without a voltage bias. A persistent spin current is predicted to exist under most circumstances, although the persistent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

Superconduction manifests when a steady-state current flows through a material without an electric field being present. It is argued here that the absence of scattering of the charge-carriers, although absolutely necessary, is not…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Johan F. Prins

Superconductors used in magnet technology could carry extreme currents because of their ability to keep the magnetic flux motionless. The dynamics of the magnetic flux interaction with superconductors is controlled by this property. The…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-01-29 F Gömöry

Altermagnets, a recently identified class of magnetic materials, possess a spin-split Fermi surface that results in the so-called spin splitter effect, enabling the generation of a spin current transverse to the injection direction and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Konstantinos Sourounis , Aurélien Manchon

Altermagnets exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. This enables a spin-splitter effect in which an external electric field generates transverse spin currents by separating oppositely polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Sanjay Sarkar , Sayan Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

We consider a superconducting altermagnet heterostructure and demonstrate that the interplay between altermagnetism and a selective filter of transverse momentum channels enables perfect nonreciprocal spin-polarized currents. We demonstrate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-23 Pei-Hao Fu , Jun-Feng Liu , Luca Chirolli , Jorge Cayao

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

First principles calculations show that electric fields applied to ferromagnets generate spin currents flowing perpendicularly to the electric field. Reduced symmetry in these ferromagnets enables a wide variety of such spin currents.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 V. P. Amin , Junwen Li , M. D. Stiles , P. M. Haney

Altermagnets have recently emerged as a distinct class of magnetic systems that exhibit spin splitting of electronic bands while retaining zero net magnetization. This unique combination makes them a promising platform for time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Constantin Schrade , Sujit Manna , Mathias S. Scheurer

The superconducting version of a diode effect has been the subject of extensive research in the past few years. So far, the focus has almost exclusively been on charge transport, but a natural question is whether it is possible to obtain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-06 Chi Sun , Johanne Bratland Tjernshaugen , Jacob Linder

The present review analyzes and compares various types of dissipationless spin transport: (1) Superfluid transport, when the spin-current state is a metastable state (a local but not the absolute minimum in the parameter space). (2)…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-08-09 E. B. Sonin

Recent theoretical work highlighted unique properties of superconducting altermagnets, including the wealth of topologically non-trivial phases as well as their potential uses in spintronic applications. Given that no intrinsically…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-05 Niclas Heinsdorf , Marcel Franz

It is argued that experiments on rotating superconductors provide evidence for the existence of macroscopic spin currents in superconductors in the absence of applied external fields. Furthermore it is shown that the model of hole…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 J. E. Hirsch

We theoretically study spin current through ferromagnet (F) in a Josephson junction composed of s-wave superconductors and two layers of ferromagnets. Using quasiclassical theory, we show that the long-range spin current can be driven by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Hikino , S. Yunoki

It is shown that the flow of electric current in an altermagnet results in the formation of a homogeneous electron spin orientation in the sample. The spin of the conduction electrons generated in altermagnets with $d$-wave spin-momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 L. E. Golub , L. Šmejkal
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