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I propose a superconductivity model, which is based on the assumption that stripes in high-Tc cuprates (a) exist and (b) organize themselves in a two-dimensional superstructure. The model describes hole states, which are localized either…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Boris V. Fine

Transport through quantum coherent conductors, like atomic junctions, is described by the distribution of conduction channels. Information about the number of channels and their transmission can be extracted from various sources, such as…

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

Spin accumulation is a crucial but imprecise concept in spintronics. In metal-based spintronics it is characterized in terms of semiclassical distribution functions. In semiconductors with a strong spin-orbit coupling the spin accumulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-10 Henri Saarikoski , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

In recent years, electrical spin injection and detection has grown into a lively area of research in the field of spintronics. Spin injection into a paramagnetic material is usually achieved by means of a ferromagnetic source, whereas the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-01 Sergio O. Valenzuela

Spin imbalance is predicted to lead to suppression of superconductivity. We report phenomena manifesting this effect under spin-polarized quasiparticle currents in ferromagnet-superconductor-ferromagnet single electron transistors. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 C. D. Chen , Watson Kuo , D. S. Chung , J. H. Shyu , C. S. Wu

We show that the annihilation dynamics of excess quasi-particles in superconductors may result in the spontaneous formation of large spin-polarized clusters. This presents a novel scenario for spontaneous spin polarization. We estimate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-02 Julia S. Meyer , Manuel Houzet , Yuli V. Nazarov

We present first-principles calculations of the coupling of quasiparticles to spin fluctuations in iron selenide and discuss which types of superconducting instabilities this coupling gives rise to. We find that strong antiferromagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Johannes Lischner , Timur Bazhirov , Allan H. MacDonald , Marvin L. Cohen , Steven G. Louie

Designing the spatial profile of the superconducting gap -- gap engineering -- has long been recognized as an effective way of controlling quasiparticles in superconducting devices. In aluminum films, their thickness modulates the gap;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Giampiero Marchegiani , Luigi Amico , Gianluigi Catelani

We study the nonequilibrium spin-splitter effect in superconducting altermagnets and superconductor altermagnet hybrids by computing the alternating spin current and edge the spin density in the presence of an alternating electric field. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-14 Tim Kokkeler , Tero T. Heikkilä , F. Sebastian Bergeret

Electrical spin transport and accumulation have been measured in highly Si doped Al0.3Ga0.7As utilizing a lateral spin transport device. Persistent photoconductivity allows for the tuning of the effective carrier density of the channel…

The phenomenon of mesoscopic Spin-Hall effect reveals in a nonequilibrium spin accumulation (driven by electric current) at the edges of a ballistic conductor or, more generally, in the regions with varying electron density. In this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-24 P. G. Silvestrov , E. G. Mishchenko

We show that nonequilibrium spin injection into a superconductor can generate an anomalous supercurrent or induce a phase gradient, even for spin voltages below the superconducting gap. Our mechanism does not require breaking time-reversal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-30 I. V. Tokatly , Y. Lu , F. S. Bergeret

We report transport studies of hybrid Josephson junctions based on semiconducting InAs nanowires with fully overlapping epitaxial ferromagnetic insulator EuS and superconducting Al partial shells. Current-biased measurements reveal a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 J. Zhao , A. Mazanik , D. Razmadze , Y. Liu , P. Krogstrup , F. S. Bergeret , S. Vaitiekėnas

Topological superconductors, such as noncentrosymmetric superconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling, exhibit protected zero-energy surface states, which possess an intricate helical spin structure. We show that this nontrival spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-10 Johannes S. Hofmann , Raquel Queiroz , Andreas P. Schnyder

One type of order that has been observed to compete with superconductivity in cuprates involves alternating charge and antiferromagnetic stripes. Recent neutron scattering studies indicate that the magnetic excitation spectrum of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Tranquada

Spatially resolved relaxation of non-equilibrium quasiparticles in a superconductor at ultra-low temperatures was experimentally studied. It was found that the quasiparticle injection through a tunnel junction results in modification of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-03-22 K. Yu. Arutyunov , H. -P. Auraneva , A. S. Vasenko

We derive a drift-diffusion equation for spin polarization in semiconductors by consistently taking into account electric-field effects and nondegenerate electron statistics. We identify a high-field diffusive regime which has no analogue…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. G. Yu , M. E. Flatte

It is theoretically well established that a spin-dependent electron transmission generally appears in chiral systems, even without magnetic components, as long as a strong spin-orbit coupling is present in some of its elements. However, how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 M. A. García-Blázquez , W. Dednam , J. J. Palacios

This article is devoted to a discussion of stripe and electron-nematic order and their connection to electronic properties in the pseudogap regime of copper-oxide superconductors. We review basic properties of these symmetry-breaking…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-09-18 Matthias Vojta