Spontaneous spin current due to triplet superconductor--ferromagnet interfaces

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2009-08-27

arxiv.org/abs/0908.4065v2

Phys. Rev. B 80, 224520 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

8 pages, 7 figures, RevTeX; revised version with corrected text and figure 5(c), added references

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.80.224520

We examine the appearance of a spontaneous bulk spin current in a triplet superconductor in contact with a metallic ferromagnet. The spin current results from the spin-flip of Cooper pairs upon reflection from the interface with the ferromagnet, and is shown to display strong similarities to the spontaneous charge current in a Josephson junction. We express the spin current in terms of the Andreev reflection coefficients, which are derived by the construction of the quasiclassical scattering wavefunctions. The dependence of the spin current upon a number of parameters is investigated, in particular the orientation of the magnetic moment of the ferromagnet, the exchange splitting, the temperature, and the orbital pairing state of the triplet superconductor.

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