Superconducting spintronics

J Linder, JWA Robinson - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Traditional studies that combine spintronics and superconductivity have mainly focused on
the injection of spin-polarized quasiparticles into superconducting materials. However, a …

Supercurrent diode effect, spin torques, and robust zero-energy peak in planar half-metallic trilayers

K Halterman, M Alidoust, R Smith, S Starr - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We consider trilayer F 1 F 2 F 3 Josephson junctions that are finite in two dimensions and
have arbitrary magnetizations in each ferromagnet F i (i= 1, 2, 3). The trilayers are …

Colossal Proximity Effect in a Superconducting Triplet Spin Valve Based on the Half-Metallic Ferromagnet

A Singh, S Voltan, K Lahabi, J Aarts - Physical Review X, 2015 - APS
Combining superconductors (S) and ferromagnets (F) offers the opportunity to create a new
class of superconducting spintronic devices. In particular, the S/F interface can be …

Superconducting spintronics: state of the art and prospects

AS Mel'nikov, SV Mironov, AV Samokhvalov, AI Buzdin - Uspekhi Fiz. Nauk, 2022 - ufn.ru
Significant progress has been achieved recently in a new field of low-temperature
electronics, the physics of superconducting hybrid systems based on superconductors (Ss) …

Theory of the spin-galvanic effect and the anomalous phase shift in superconductors and Josephson junctions with intrinsic spin-orbit coupling

F Konschelle, IV Tokatly, FS Bergeret - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Due to the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) an electric current flowing in a normal metal or
semiconductor can induce a bulk magnetic moment. This effect is known as the Edelstein …

Signature of magnetic-dependent gapless odd frequency states at superconductor/ferromagnet interfaces

A Di Bernardo, S Diesch, Y Gu, J Linder… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The theory of superconductivity developed by Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer (BCS)
explains the stabilization of electron pairs into a spin-singlet, even frequency, state by the …

Creation of equal-spin triplet superconductivity at the Al/EuS interface

S Diesch, P Machon, M Wolz, C Sürgers… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
In conventional superconductors, electrons of opposite spins are bound into Cooper pairs.
However, when the superconductor is in contact with a non-uniformly ordered ferromagnet …

Large superconducting spin valve effect and ultrasmall exchange splitting in epitaxial rare-earth-niobium trilayers

Y Gu, GB Halász, JWA Robinson, MG Blamire - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
Epitaxial Ho/Nb/Ho and Dy/Nb/Dy superconducting spin valves show a reversible change in
the zero-field critical temperature (Δ T c 0) of∼ 400 mK and an infinite magnetoresistance on …

Supercurrent in ferromagnetic Josephson junctions with heavy metal interlayers

N Satchell, NO Birge - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
The length scale over which supercurrent from conventional BCS, s-wave superconductors
(S) can penetrate an adjacent ferromagnetic (F) layer depends on the ability to convert …

Half-metallic superconducting triplet spin valve

K Halterman, M Alidoust - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We theoretically study a finite-size SF 1 NF 2 spin valve, where a normal metal (N) insert
separates a thin standard ferromagnet (F 1) and a thick half-metallic ferromagnet (F 2). For …