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We study the superconducting proximity effect in a superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor (SFS) heterostructure, containing a domain wall in the ferromagnetic region. For the ferromagnet we assume an alloy with an exchange splitting of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Konstandin , Juha Kopu , Matthias Eschrig

To reveal the influence of the exchange interaction on the Josephson effect, the d.c. Josephson current in unconventional-superconductor / ferromagnet / unconventional-superconductor junctions is studied. When the two superconductors have…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Tanaka , S. Kashiwaya

We consider the Higgs mode at nonzero momentum in superconductors and demonstrate that in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, it couples linearly with an external exchange field. The Higgs-spin coupling dramatically modifies the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-10 Yao Lu , Risto Ojajärvi , P. Virtanen , M. A. Silaev , Tero T. Heikkilä

We study how the Rashba spin-orbit interaction influences unconventional superconductivity in a two dimensional electron gas partially spin-polarized by a magnetic field. Somewhat surprisingly, we find that for all field orientations, only…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-01 Ethan Lake , Caleb Webb , D. A. Pesin , O. A. Starykh

We consider a bi-layer consisting of a $d-$wave layerd superconductor and diffusive ferromagnet with a domain wall (DW). The $c-$axis in the superconductor and DW in the ferromagnet are assumed to be perpendicular to the interface. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 A. F. Volkov , K. B. Efetov

We study a ballistic spin field-effect transistor (SFET) with special attention to the issue of multi-channel effects. The conductance modulation of the SFET as a function of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling strength is numerically examined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-12 Jae-Seung Jeong , Hyun-Woo Lee

Based on the extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk formalism, the tunneling conductance characteristics of a planar junction between a ferromagnet and a noncentrosymmetric superconductor are studied. The effects of the Rashba spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 S. Wu , K. V. Samokhin

We investigate theoretically how the proximity effect in superconductor/ferromagnet hybrid structures with intrinsic spin-orbit coupling manifests in the density of states and critical temperature. To describe a general scenario, we allow…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-08-04 Sol H. Jacobsen , Jabir Ali Ouassou , Jacob Linder

We study the anomalous proximity effect in diffusive normal metal (DN)/unconventional superconductor junctions, where the local density of states (LDOS) in the DN has a zero-energy peak due to the penetration of the odd-frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-27 Shun Tamura , Yukio Tanaka

We consider the superconducting proximity effect in a helical Luttinger liquid at the edge of a 2D topological insulator, and derive the low-energy Hamiltonian for an edge state tunnel-coupled to a s-wave superconductor. In addition to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-23 Pauli Virtanen , Patrik Recher

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

The proximity effect, quasiparticle transport, and local magnetic moment in ferromagnet--d-wave superconductor junctions with {110}-oriented interface are studied by solving self-consistently the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations within an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Jian-Xin Zhu , C. S. Ting

Spin-polarized transport is investigated in normal metal-superconductor (NS) junctions as a function of interface transmissivity as well as temperature when the density of states of a superconductor is Zeeman-split in response to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-03 F. Giazotto , F. Taddei

We present a theoretical study of diluted magnetic semiconductors that treats the local sp-d exchange interaction J between the itinerant carriers and the Mn d electrons within a realistic band structure and goes beyond previous mean-field…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Byounghak Lee , Xavier Cartoixa , Nandini Trivedi , Richard M. Martin

We theoretically study the spin-dependent transport in a ferromagnet/superconductor/ferro-magnet double barrier tunnel junction. The spin-polarized tunneling currents give rise to spin imbalance in the superconductor. The resulting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Saburo Takahashi , Hiroshi Imamura , Sasamichi Maekawa

We study the superconducting proximity effect in an InAs nanowire contacted by Ta-based superconducting electrodes. Using local bottom gates, we control the potential landscape along the nanowire, tuning its conductance to a quasi-ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 J. C. Estrada Saldaña , R. Žitko , J. P. Cleuziou , E. J. H. Lee , V. Zannier , D. Ercolani , L. Sorba , R. Aguado , S. De Franceschi

We analyze the real-space paired state with the $\mathbf{k}$-dependent superconducting gap in the presence of Rashba type spin-orbit coupling and external magnetic field. We show that the $extended$ $s$-$wave$ pairing symmetry is the most…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-30 M. Zegrodnik , P. Wójcik

We present theoretical studies of the influence of spin orbit coupling on the spin wave excitations of the Fe monolayer and bilayer on the W(110) surface. The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction is active in such films, by virtue of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-19 A. T. Costa , R. B. Muniz , S. Lounis , A. B. Klautau , D. L. Mills

We present a general model with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings to describe a two-dimensional noncentrosymmetric superconductor. The combined effects of the two spin-orbit couplings on superconductivity are investigated in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-23 Xu Yan , Qiang Gu

The Rashba superconductor, in which spin-splitting bands become superconducting, is fascinating as a novel superconducting system in low dimensional systems. Here, we present the results of $\textit{in-situ}$ transport measurements on a…