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 …

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 …

Enhanced spin pum** into superconductors provides evidence for superconducting pure spin currents

KR Jeon, C Ciccarelli, AJ Ferguson, H Kurebayashi… - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
Unlike conventional spin-singlet Cooper pairs, spin-triplet pairs can carry spin 1, 2. Triplet
supercurrents were discovered in Josephson junctions with metallic ferromagnet spacers …

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 …

p-wave triggered superconductivity in single-layer graphene on an electron-doped oxide superconductor

A Di Bernardo, O Millo, M Barbone, H Alpern… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Electron pairing in the vast majority of superconductors follows the Bardeen–Cooper–
Schrieffer theory of superconductivity, which describes the condensation of electrons into …

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 …

Magnetic-related states and order parameter induced in a conventional superconductor by nonmagnetic chiral molecules

H Alpern, K Yavilberg, T Dvir, N Sukenik, M Klang… - Nano Letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
Hybrid ferromagnetic/superconducting systems are well-known for hosting intriguing
phenomena such as emergent triplet superconductivity at their interfaces and the …

Spin-transport in superconductors

K Ohnishi, S Komori, G Yang, KR Jeon… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Spin-transport in superconductors is a subject of fundamental and technical importance with
the potential for applications in superconducting-based cryogenic memory and logic …

Nonlocal Andreev entanglements and triplet correlations in graphene with spin-orbit coupling

R Beiranvand, H Hamzehpour, M Alidoust - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Using a wave function Dirac Bogoliubov–de Gennes method, we demonstrate that the
tunable Fermi level of a graphene layer in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling …

Controlling superconducting spin flow with spin-flip immunity using a single homogeneous ferromagnet

SH Jacobsen, I Kulagina, J Linder - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Spin transport via electrons is typically plagued by Joule heating and short decay lengths
due to spin-flip scattering. It is known that dissipationless spin currents can arise when using …