Supercurrent-induced charge-spin conversion in spin-split superconductors

We study spin-polarized quasiparticle transport in a mesoscopic superconductor with a spin-splitting field in the presence of coflowing supercurrent. In such a system, the nonequilibrium state is characterized by charge, spin, energy, and spin-energy modes. Here we show that in the presence of both...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review. B 2018-07, Vol.98 (2), p.024516
Hauptverfasser: Aikebaier, Faluke, Silaev, Mihail A, Heikkilä, T Heikkilä
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Zusammenfassung:We study spin-polarized quasiparticle transport in a mesoscopic superconductor with a spin-splitting field in the presence of coflowing supercurrent. In such a system, the nonequilibrium state is characterized by charge, spin, energy, and spin-energy modes. Here we show that in the presence of both spin splitting and supercurrent, all these modes are mutually coupled. As a result, the supercurrent can convert charge imbalance, which in the presence of spin splitting decays on a relatively short scale, to a long-range spin accumulation decaying only via inelastic scattering. This effect enables coherent charge-spin conversion controllable by a magnetic flux, and it can be detected by studying different symmetry components of the nonlocal conductance signal.
ISSN:2469-9950
2469-9969
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.98.024516