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Recently discovered phase of collinear magnet called, altermagnet breaks time reversal symmetry (TRS), exhibits momentum-dependent spin-splitting of band structure with zero net magnetization. In this work, we theoretically investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Lovy Sharma , Manisha Thakurathi

We theoretically study the spin-polarized current flowing through a Josephson junction (JJ) in a spin injection device. When the spin-polarized current is injected from a ferromagnet (FM) in a superconductor (SC), the charge current is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Takahashi , T. Yamashita , T. Koyama , S. Maekawa , H. Imamura

We studied the diffusion and the relaxation of the polarized quasiparticle spins in superconductors. To that end, quasiparticles of polarized spins were injected through an interface of a mesoscopic superconducting Al wire in proximity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-28 Yun-Sok Shin , Hu-Jong Lee , Hyun-Woo Lee

The pursuit of dissipationless spin supercurrents is a central theme in superconducting spintronics. We propose a field-free Josephson junction using an inhomogeneous altermagnetic interlayer with in-plane N\'{e}el vectors. We show that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-11 Wenjun Zhao , Yuri Fukaya , Pablo Burset , Jorge Cayao , Yukio Tanaka , Bo Lu

We model and evaluate the Peltier and Seebeck effects in magnetic multilayer nanostructures by a finite-element theory of thermoelectric properties. We present analytical expressions for the thermopower and the current-induced temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-21 Moosa Hatami , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Qinfang Zhang , Paul J. Kelly

Recently thermally created pure spin currents were predicted for Zeeman-split superconductor/normal metal heterostructures. Here it is shown that this "thermospin" current can lead to an accumulation of a pure spin imbalance in a system.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-04 I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov

Altermagnetic (AM) materials have recently attracted significant interest due to the non-relativistic momentum-dependent spin splitting of their electronic band structure which may be useful for antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics. So far,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-04 Kartik Samanta , Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

We discuss the charge and the spin tunneling currents between two Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superconductors, where one density of states is spin-split. In the presence of a large temperature bias across the junction, we predict the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Gaia Germanese , Federico Paolucci , Giampiero Marchegiani , Alessandro Braggio , Francesco Giazotto

Spin pumping with superconductors has been extensively studied, particularly in double-layer systems. In this study, we investigate spin pumping in a trilayer system comprising a ferromagnetic insulator (FMI), a superconductor (SC), and a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-23 Koki Mizuno , Hirone Ishida , Manato Teranishi

Altermagnets (AMs) - magnetic materials that have spin-split bandstructure with zero net spin polarization can be classified as weak or strong depending upon the strength of altermagnetic term in the Hamiltonian. We theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Shubham Ghadigaonkar , Sachchidanand Das , Abhiram Soori

Thermoelectric effects in magnetic nanostructures and the so-called spin caloritronics are attracting much interest. Indeed it provides a new way to control and manipulate spin currents which are key elements of spin-based electronics. Here…

Conducting altermagnets have recently emerged as intriguing materials supporting strongly spin-polarized currents without magnetic stray fields. We demonstrate that altermagnets enable three key functionalities, merging superconductivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-23 Hans Gløckner Giil , Bjørnulf Brekke , Jacob Linder , Arne Brataas

We theoretically consider the spin Seebeck effect, the charge Seebeck coefficient, and the thermoelectric figure of merit in superconducting hybrid structures including either magnetic textures or intrinsic spin-orbit coupling. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Marianne Etzelmüller Bathen , Jacob Linder

We present a theoretical framework for investigating superconducting proximity effect in altermagnet (AM)-superconductor (SC) heterostructures. In general, AMs, characterized by vanishing net magnetization but spin-split electronic spectra,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-20 Ohidul Alam , Amartya Pal , Paramita Dutta , Arijit Saha

Spin-driven multiferroics exhibit strong magnetoelectric coupling, with notable polarization changes under a magnetic field, but these effects are usually limited to high-Z magnetic insulators with low electronic polarization. In this work,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-31 Ranquan Cao , Ruizhi Dong , Ruixiang Fei , Yugui Yao

Recently, altermagnetism (AM) has emerged as a new category of magnetism, alongside conventional antiferromagnetism (AFM) and ferromagnetism (FM). In an AM, superconductivity (SC) is faced with a dilemma that the spin-polarized bands,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-04 Jun Chang , Hantao Lu , Jize Zhao , Hong-Gang Luo , Yang Ding

We investigate the thermoelectric properties of a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic and superconducting electrodes. The combination of spin polarized tunneling at the ferromagnetic-quantum dot interface and the application of an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Sun-Yong Hwang , Rosa Lopez , David Sanchez

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

We predict a field-free transverse Josephson diode effect in altermagnets (AMs) with Rashba spin--orbit coupling, achieving diode efficiencies exceeding $3000\%$ and unidirectional transverse supercurrents in four-terminal junctions. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Bijay Kumar Sahoo , Abhiram Soori

We suggest a consistent microscopic theory of spin injection from a ferromagnet (FM) into a semiconductor (S). It describes tunneling and emission of electrons through modified FM-S Schottky barrier with an ultrathin heavily doped…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 V. V. Osipov , A. M. Bratkovsky