Colloquium: Nonequilibrium effects in superconductors with a spin-splitting field

FS Bergeret, M Silaev, P Virtanen, TT Heikkilä - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
This Colloquium discusses the recent progress in understanding the properties of spin-split
superconductors under nonequilibrium conditions. Recent experiments and theories …

Thermal, electric and spin transport in superconductor/ferromagnetic-insulator structures

TT Heikkilä, M Silaev, P Virtanen… - Progress in Surface …, 2019 - Elsevier
A ferromagnetic insulator (FI) attached to a conventional superconductor (S) changes
drastically the properties of the latter. Specifically, the exchange field at the FI/S interface …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum thermodynamic devices: From theoretical proposals to experimental reality

NM Myers, O Abah, S Deffner - AVS quantum science, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Thermodynamics originated in the need to understand novel technologies developed by the
Industrial Revolution. However, over the centuries, the description of engines, refrigerators …

Superconducting spintronic tunnel diode

E Strambini, M Spies, N Ligato, S Ilić, M Rouco… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Diodes are key elements for electronics, optics, and detection. Their evolution towards low
dissipation electronics has seen the hybridization with superconductors and the realization …

Revealing the magnetic proximity effect in EuS/Al bilayers through superconducting tunneling spectroscopy

E Strambini, VN Golovach, G De Simoni… - Physical Review …, 2017 - APS
A ferromagnetic insulator in contact with a superconductor is known to induce an exchange
splitting of the singularity in the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) density of states (DoS) …

Observation of thermoelectric currents in high-field superconductor-ferromagnet tunnel junctions

S Kolenda, MJ Wolf, D Beckmann - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
We report on the experimental observation of spin-dependent thermoelectric currents in
superconductor-ferromagnet tunnel junctions in high magnetic fields. The thermoelectric …

Superconductor-ferromagnet hybrids for non-reciprocal electronics and detectors

Z Geng, A Hijano, S Ilić, M Ilyn, I Maasilta… - Superconductor …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the use of hybrid thin films composed of superconductors and ferromagnets for
creating non-reciprocal electronic components and self-biased detectors of electromagnetic …

Coexistence of superconductivity and spin-splitting fields in superconductor/ferromagnetic insulator bilayers of arbitrary thickness

A Hijano, S Ilić, M Rouco, C González-Orellana… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Ferromagnetic insulators (FI) can induce a strong exchange field in an adjacent
superconductor (S) via the magnetic proximity effect. This manifests as spin splitting of the …

Nonlocal thermoelectricity in a superconductor–topological-insulator–superconductor junction in contact with a normal-metal probe: Evidence for helical edge states

G Blasi, F Taddei, L Arrachea, M Carrega, A Braggio - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We consider a Josephson junction hosting a Kramers pair of helical edge states of a
quantum spin Hall bar in contact with a normal-metal probe. In this hybrid system, the orbital …

Thermoelectric radiation detector based on superconductor-ferromagnet systems

TT Heikkilä, R Ojajärvi, IJ Maasilta, E Strambini… - Physical Review …, 2018 - APS
We suggest an ultrasensitive detector of electromagnetic fields exploiting the giant
thermoelectric effect recently found in superconductor-ferromagnet hybrid structures …