Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2004-08-23
JETP Lett. 80, 494 (2004)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
5 pages
Scientific paper
10.1134/1.1839298
We find proximity-induced spontaneous spin and electric surface currents, at all temperatures below the superconducting T_c, in an isotropic s-wave superconductor deposited with a thin ferromagnetic metal layer with spin-orbit interaction. The currents are carried by Andreev surface states and generated as a joint effect of the spin-orbit interaction and the exchange field. The background spin current arises in the thin layer due to different local spin polarizations of electrons and holes, which have almost opposite velocities in each of the surface states. The spontaneous surface electric current in the superconductor originates in asymmetry of Andreev states with respect to sign reversal of the momentum component parallel to the surface. Conditions for electric and spin currents to show up in the system, significantly differ from each other.
Barash Yu. S.
Bobkova I. V.
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