Spin transport in diffusive superconductors

Spin transport in diffusive superconductors

We employ the Keldysh formalism in the quasiclassical approximation to study transport in a diffusive superconductor. The resulting 434 transport equations describe the flow of charge and energy as well as the corresponding flow of spin and spin energy. Spin-flip scattering due to magnetic impurities is included. We find that the spin-flip length is renormalized in the superconducting case and ...

Charge and spin transport in mesoscopic superconductors

BACKGROUND Non-equilibrium charge transport in superconductors has been investigated intensely in the 1970s and 1980s, mostly in the vicinity of the critical temperature. Much less attention has been paid to low temperatures and the role of the quasiparticle spin. RESULTS We report here on nonlocal transport in superconductor hybrid structures at very low temperatures. By comparing the nonloc...

Spin-polarized quasiparticle transport in cuprate superconductors

The effects of spin-polarized quasiparticle transport in superconducting YBa2Cu3O7−δ (YBCO) epitaxial films are investigated by means of current injection into perovskite ferromagnet-insulatorsuperconductor (F-I-S) heterostructures. These effects are compared with the injection of simple quasiparticles into control samples of perovskite non-magnetic metal-insulator-superconductor (N-IS). System...

Transport equations for superconductors in the presence of spin interaction

Coupling spin qubits via superconductors.

We show how superconductors can be used to couple, initialize, and read out spatially separated spin qubits. When two single-electron quantum dots are tunnel coupled to the same superconductor, the singlet component of the two-electron state partially leaks into the superconductor via crossed Andreev reflection. This induces a gate-controlled singlet-triplet splitting which, with an appropriate...