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) …

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 …

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 …

Spin-triplet supercurrents in Josephson junctions containing strong ferromagnetic materials

NO Birge - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The proximity effect between a superconducting material and a non-superconducting normal
metal can extend over distances of the order of micrometres at sufficiently low temperatures …

Critical supercurrent and state for probing a persistent spin helix

M Alidoust - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We theoretically study the profile of a supercurrent in two-dimensional Josephson junctions
with Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction (RDSOI) in the presence of a Zeeman field …

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 …

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 …

Odd-frequency superconducting states with different types of Meissner response: Problem of coexistence

YV Fominov, Y Tanaka, Y Asano, M Eschrig - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We consider physical properties of a superconductor with a recently proposed type of odd-
frequency pairing that exhibits diamagnetic Meissner response (“odd-dia state”). Such a …

Remotely induced magnetism in a normal metal using a superconducting spin-valve

MG Flokstra, N Satchell, J Kim, G Burnell, PJ Curran… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Superconducting spintronics has emerged in the past decade as a promising new field that
seeks to open a new dimension for nanoelectronics by utilizing the internal spin structure of …