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 …

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 …

[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) …

Long-Range Spin-Polarized Quasiparticle Transport in<? format?> Mesoscopic Al Superconductors with a Zeeman Splitting

F Hübler, MJ Wolf, D Beckmann, H v. Löhneysen - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
We report on nonlocal transport in multiterminal superconductor-ferromagnet structures,
which were fabricated by means of e-beam lithography and shadow evaporation …

Full electrical control of charge and spin conductance through interferometry of edge states in topological insulators

F Dolcini - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2011 - APS
We investigate electron interferometry of edge states in topological insulators. We show that
when interboundary coupling is induced at two quantum point contacts of a four terminal …

Spin-polarized quasiparticle transport in exchange-split superconducting aluminum on europium sulfide

MJ Wolf, C Sürgers, G Fischer, D Beckmann - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We report on nonlocal spin transport in mesoscopic superconducting aluminum wires in
contact with the ferromagnetic insulator europium sulfide. We find spin injection and long …

Magnetically-driven colossal supercurrent enhancement in InAs nanowire Josephson junctions

J Tiira, E Strambini, M Amado, S Roddaro… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The Josephson effect is a fundamental quantum phenomenon where a dissipationless
supercurrent is introduced in a weak link between two superconducting electrodes by …

Toward the absolute spin-valve effect in superconducting tunnel junctions

G De Simoni, E Strambini, JS Moodera, FS Bergeret… - Nano …, 2018 - ACS Publications
A superconductor with a spin–split excitation spectrum behaves as an ideal ferromagnetic
spin-injector in a tunneling junction. It was theoretically predicted that the combination of two …