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Controlling the size and distribution of potential barriers within a medium of interacting particles can unveil unique collective behaviors and innovative functionalities. In this study, we introduce a unique superconducting hybrid device…

We present a description of spin-polarized transport in mesoscopic ferromagnet-superconductor (F/S) systems, where the transport is diffusive, and the interfaces are transparent. It is shown that the spin reversal associated with Andreev…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. J. Jedema , B. J. van Wees , B. H. Hoving , A. T. Filip , T. M. Klapwijk

Spin transport of magnonic excitations in uniaxial insulating antiferromagnets (AFs) is investigated. In linear response to spin biasing and a temperature gradient, the spin transport properties of normal-metal--insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Roberto E. Troncoso , Scott A. Bender , Arne Brataas , Rembert A. Duine

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

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 present a formulation of the quasiclassical theory of junctions between itinerant antiferromagnets (AF) and s-wave (sSC) and d-wave superconductors (dSC). For the simplest two-sublattice antiferromagnet on a bipartite lattice, we derive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 I. V. Bobkova , P. J. Hirschfeld , Yu. S. Barash

Altermagnets are a new class of magnetic materials, which exhibit large spin splitting, but due to the combined spin and real space group symmetry protection maintain zero net macroscopic magnetization. Such a characteristic may prove them…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-18 Michał Papaj

Altermagnetic (AM) fluctuations are a new class of collinear spin fluctuations whose role in mediating superconductivity faces a fundamental tension: their $\Gamma$-point peak favors intra-orbital spin-triplet pairing, while their spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-23 Chen Lu , Chuang Li , Chao Cao , Huiqiu Yuan , Fu-Chun Zhang , Lun-Hui Hu

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is a key interaction in spintronics, allowing an electrical control of spin or magnetization and, vice versa, a magnetic control of electrical current. However, recent advances have revealed much broader…

We show that spin-orbit coupling at the interface between a superconducting film of the finite lateral size and the underlying ferromagnetic insulator with in-plane exchange field gives rise to a series of non-reciprocal effects provided…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-21 A. V. Putilov , S. V. Mironov , A. I. Buzdin

A theoretical proposal for realizing and detecting spin supercurrent in an isotropic antiferromagnetic insulator is reported. Superfluid spin transport is achieved by inserting the antiferromagnet between two metallic reservoirs and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 So Takei , Bertrand I. Halperin , Amir Yacoby , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Being resilient to magnetic field, Ising superconductor serves as an exceptional platform for studying the interplay between superconductivity and magnetism. In this Letter, we first explore the transport properties of a two-terminal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Gaoyang Li , Sourabh Patil , Yanxia Xing , Wolfgang Belzig , Gaomin Tang

We show that spin-polarized electron transmission across semiconductor/superconductor (Sm/S) hybrid structures depends sensitively on the degree of spin polarization as well as the strengths of potential and spin-flip scattering at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Igor Zutic , S. Das Sarma

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

We study inserting Co layer thickness-dependent spin transport and spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in the Pt/Co/Py trilayers by spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance. The interfacial perpendicular magnetic anisotropy energy density ($K_s =…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Wenqiang Wang , Kaiyuan Zhou , Xiang Zhan , Zui Tao , Qingwei Fu , Like Liang , Zishuang Li , Lina Chen , Chunjie Yan , Haotian Li , Tiejun Zhou , Ronghua Liu

Combining the first-principles noncollinear calculations of scattering matrices with Andreev approximation, we investigated the spin-triplet Andreev reflection (AR) spectra for the interface between half-metallic ferromagnet Co$_{2}$MnSi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-13 Ling Tang

We present and verify experimentally a universal theoretical framework for the description of spin-charge interconversion in non-magnetic metal/insulator structures with interfacial spin-orbit coupling (ISOC). Our formulation is based on…

The broken inversion symmetry at the ferromagnet (FM)/heavy-metal (HM) interface leads to spin-dependent degeneracy of the energy band, forming spin-polarized surface states. As a result, the interface serves as an effective medium for…

We investigate inverse proximity effects in a spin-triplet superconductor (TSC) interfaced with a ferromagnet (FM), assuming different types of magnetic profiles and chiral or helical pairings. The region of the coexistence of spin-triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-07 O. Maistrenko , C. Autieri , G. Livanas , P. Gentile , A. Romano , C. Noce , D. Manske , M. Cuoco

Despite intense efforts it has remained unresolved whether and how interfacial spin-orbit coupling (ISOC) affects spin transport across heavy metal (HM)/ferromagnet (FM) interfaces. Here we report conclusive experiment evidence that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-27 Lijun Zhu , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman