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We study the excess conductance due to the superconducting proximity effect in a ballistic two-dimensional electron system subject to an in-plane magnetic field. We show that under certain conditions the interplay of the Zeeman spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Grygoriy Tkachov , Klaus Richter

We study the transport properties of a graphene ferromagnet-insulator superconductor (FIS) junction within the Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk formalism by solving spin-polarized Dirac-Bogoliubov-de-Gennes equation. We find that the retro and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ya-Fen Hsu , Guang-Yu Guo

The recent development of superconducting spintronics has revealed the spin-triplet superconducting proximity effect from a spin-singlet superconductor into a spin-polarized normal metal. In addition recently superconducting junctions using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Sadashige Matsuo , Kento Ueda , Shoji Baba , Hiroshi Kamata , Mizuki Tateno , Javad Shabani , Christopher J. Palmstrøm , Seigo Tarucha

As charge carriers traverse a single superconductor ferromagnet interface they experience an additional spin-dependent phase angle which results in spin mixing and the formation of a bound state called the Andreev Bound State. This state is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-29 K. A. Yates , D. Prabhakaran , M. Egilmez , J. W. A. Robinson , L. F. Cohen

We theoretically study spin and charge currents through finite-size two-dimensional $s$-wave superconductor/uniform ferromagnet/s-wave superconductor (SFS) junctions with intrinsic spin-orbit interactions (ISOIs) using a quasiclassical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-21 Mohammad Alidoust , Klaus Halterman

We study Andreev reflection in normal metal-superconductor junctions by using an extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk model combined with transport calculations based on density functional theory. Starting from a parameter-free description of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 Awadhesh Narayan , Ivan Rungger , Stefano Sanvito

We study the effect of spin injection into $s-$ and $d-$wave superconductors, with an emphasis on the interplay between boundary and bulk spin transport properties. The quantities of interest include the amount of non-equilibrium…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Robert L. Merrill , Qimiao Si

The behavior of spin propagation in metals in various measurement schemes is shown to be qualitatively different than a simple exponential decay - due to the backflow effect on spin diffusion in the presence of interfaces. To probe this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-23 M. Faiz , R. P. Panguluri , B. Nadgorny , B. Balke , S. Wurmehl , C. Felser , A. G. Petukhov

We examine the appearance of a spontaneous bulk spin current in a triplet superconductor in contact with a metallic ferromagnet. The spin current results from the spin-flip of Cooper pairs upon reflection from the interface with the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-12-23 P. M. R. Brydon

We study the impact of spin-active scattering on Andreev spectra of point contacts between superconductors(SCs) and strongly spin-polarized ferromagnets(FMs) using recently derived boundary conditions for the Quasiclassical Theory of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-08-29 Roland Grein , Tomas Lofwander , Georgo Metalidis , Matthias Eschrig

Andreev reflection is a smart tool to investigate the spin polarisation P of the current through point contacts between a superconductor and a ferromagnet. We compare different models to extract P from experimental data and investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Bouvron , M. Stokmaier , M. Marz , G. Goll

We present a theory of the current-voltage characteristics in diffusive superconductor-normal-metal-superconductor junctions. By solving the time-dependent Usadel equations we are able to describe the phase-coherent transport for arbitrary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 J. C. Cuevas , J. Hammer , J. Kopu , J. K. Viljas , M. Eschrig

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 study spin transport in forward and reverse biased junctions between a ferromagnetic metal and a degenerate semiconductor with a delta-doped layer near the interface at relatively low temperatures. We show that spin polarization of…

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

Spectra and spin structures of Andreev interface states and the Josephson current are investigated theoretically in junctions between clean superconductors (SC) with ordered interlayers. The Josephson current through the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuri Barash , I. V. Bobkova , Brian M. Andersen , T. Kopp , P. J. Hirschfeld

Many proposed and realized spintronic devices involve spin injection and accumulation at an interface between a ferromagnet and a non-magnetic material. We examine the electric field, voltage profile, charge distribution, spin fluxes, and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-30 M. R. Sears , W. M. Saslow

We study theoretically the spin transport in a nonmagnetic metal connected to ferromagnetic injector and detector electrodes. We derive a general expression for the spin accumulation signal which covers from the metallic to the tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Takahashi , S. Maekawa

The accurate and proper form of electron-hole excitations and corresponding Dirac-like spinors of monolayer molybdenum disulfide superconductor are exactly obtained. Andreev reflection and resulting subgap conductance in a $MoS_2$-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 H. Goudarzi , M. Khezerlou , S. F. Ebadzadeh

Tunneling Magnetoresistance between two ferrromagnets is an issue of fundamental importance in spintronics. In this work, we show that tunneling magnetoresistance can also emerge in junctions composed of ferromagnets and time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Zhongbo Yan , Shaolong Wan

Fundamental symmetry breaking and relativistic spin-orbit coupling give rise to fascinating phenomena in quantum materials. Of particular interest are the interfaces between ferromagnets and common s-wave superconductors, where the emergent…