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 …

Colloquium: Spin-orbit effects in superconducting hybrid structures

M Amundsen, J Linder, JWA Robinson, I Žutić… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) relates to the interaction between an electron's motion and its spin
and is ubiquitous in solid-state systems. Although the effect of SOC in normal-state …

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 …

Spin-orbit coupling as a source of long-range triplet proximity effect in superconductor-ferromagnet hybrid structures

FS Bergeret, IV Tokatly - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We investigate the proximity effect in diffusive superconducting hybrid structures with a spin-
orbit (SO) coupling. Our study is focused on the singlet-triplet conversion and the generation …

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 …

The interface between superconductivity and magnetism: understanding and device prospects

MG Blamire, JWA Robinson - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Ferromagnetism and conventional singlet superconductivity can be regarded as competing
ordering phenomena. A considerable body of theoretical work over the past twenty years …

Intrinsic Paramagnetic Meissner Effect Due to -Wave Odd-Frequency Superconductivity

A Di Bernardo, Z Salman, XL Wang, M Amado… - Physical Review X, 2015 - APS
In 1933, Meissner and Ochsenfeld reported the expulsion of magnetic flux—the diamagnetic
Meissner effect—from the interior of superconducting lead. This discovery was crucial in …

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 …

Boosting spintronics with superconductivity

G Yang, C Ciccarelli, JWA Robinson - APL Materials, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Spintronics aims to utilize the spin degree of freedom for energy-efficient, non-volatile
memory and logic devices. In this research update, we review state-of-the-art developments …