Chiral induced spin selectivity

BP Bloom, Y Paltiel, R Naaman, DH Waldeck - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Since the initial landmark study on the chiral induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect in 1999,
considerable experimental and theoretical efforts have been made to understand the …

The superconducting diode effect

M Nadeem, MS Fuhrer, X Wang - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
A superconducting diode enables supercurrent to flow in only one direction, providing new
functionalities for superconducting circuits. In recent years, there has been experimental …

Finite-momentum Cooper pairing in proximitized altermagnets

SB Zhang, LH Hu, T Neupert - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Finite-momentum Cooper pairing is an unconventional form of superconductivity that is
widely believed to require finite magnetization. Altermagnetism is an emerging magnetic …

Chiral molecules and the electron spin

R Naaman, Y Paltiel, DH Waldeck - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
The electron's spin is essential to the stability of matter, and control over the spin opens up
avenues for manipulating the properties of molecules and materials. The Pauli exclusion …

Symmetry-broken Josephson junctions and superconducting diodes in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

J Diez-Merida, A Díez-Carlón, SY Yang, YM **e… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The coexistence of gate-tunable superconducting, magnetic and topological orders in magic-
angle twisted bilayer graphene provides opportunities for the creation of hybrid Josephson …

Andreev reflection at the altermagnet-superconductor interface

M Papaj - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Altermagnets are a new class of magnetic materials, which exhibit large spin splitting, but
due to the combined spin and real space group symmetry protection maintain zero net …

Singlet and triplet Cooper pair splitting in hybrid superconducting nanowires

G Wang, T Dvir, GP Mazur, CX Liu, N van Loo… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
In most naturally occurring superconductors, electrons with opposite spins form Cooper
pairs. This includes both conventional s-wave superconductors such as aluminium, as well …

Two-dimensional altermagnets: Superconductivity in a minimal microscopic model

B Brekke, A Brataas, A Sudbø - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We propose a minimal toy model for a two-dimensional altermagnet. The model unravels
altermagnetic properties at a microscopic level. We find spin-split electron and …

Direct observation of a superconducting vortex diode

A Gutfreund, H Matsuki, V Plastovets, A Noah… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The interplay between magnetism and superconductivity can lead to unconventional
proximity and Josephson effects. A related phenomenon that has recently attracted …

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 …