Strongly spin-polarized current generated in a Zeeman-split unconventional superconductor
Jacob Linder, Takehito Yokoyama, Yukio Tanaka, Asle Sudbø
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.014516 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
We consider a thin-film normal-metal/superconductor junction in the presence of an externally applied in-plane magnetic field for several symmetries of the superconducting order parameter. For p-wave superconductors, a strongly spin-polarized current emerges due to an interplay between the nodal structure of the superconducting order parameter, the existence or nonexistence of zero-energy surface states, and the Zeeman splitting of the bands which form superconductivity. Thus, the polarization depends strongly on the orbital symmetry of the superconducting state. Our findings suggest a mechanism for obtaining fully spin-polarized currents crucially involving zero-energy surface states, not present in s-wave superconductors.
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