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Spin transport in diffusive superconductors

Jan Petter Morten, Arne Brataas, Wolfgang Belzig

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.212508 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We employ the Keldysh formalism in the quasiclassical approximation to study transport in a diffusive superconductor. The resulting 4×4 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 propose an experimental system to measure the spin accumulation in a superconductor.

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