Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2010-02-22
Physical Review B 81, 174503 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
19 pages, 13 figures (v3) Minor modifications per referee's comments. No change in results. (v2) 2 authors added, 1 reference
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.81.174503
We study dc-transport and magnetization dynamics in a junction of arbitrary transparency consisting of two spin-singlet superconducting leads connected via a single classical spin precessing at the frequency $\Omega$. The presence of the spin in the junction provides different transmission amplitudes for spin-up and spin-down quasiparticles as well as a time-dependent spin-flip transmission term. For a phase biased junction, we show that a steady-state superconducting charge current flows through the junction and that an out-of-equilibrium circularly polarized spin current, of frequency $\Omega$, is emitted in the leads. Detailed understanding of the charge and spin currents is obtained in the entire parameter range. In the adiabatic regime, $\hbar \Omega \ll 2\Delta$ where $\Delta$ is the superconducting gap, and for high transparencies of the junction, a strong suppression of the current takes place around $\vp \approx 0$ due to an abrupt change in the occupation of the Andreev bound-states. At higher values of the phase and/or precession frequency, extended (quasi-particle like) states compete with the bound-states in order to carry the current. Well below the superconducting transition, these results are shown to be weakly affected by the back-action of the spin current on the dynamics of the precessing spin. Indeed, we show that the Gilbert damping due to the quasi-particle spin current is strongly suppressed at low-temperatures, which goes along with a shift of the precession frequency due to the condensate. The results obtained may be of interest for on-going experiments in the field of molecular spintronics.
Fogelstrom Mikael
Holmqvist Cecilia
Teber Sofian
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