Spin-Hall effects in a Josephson contact
arXiv:0801.4419 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.78.104503
Abstract
The Josephson tunneling through a 2D normal contact with the spin-orbit split conduction band has been studied in the diffusive regime. Linearized Usadel equations for triplet components of the pairing function revealed a striking similarity to the equations of spin diffusion driven by the electric field in normal metals. Consequently, we predict that the out-of-plane spin-Hall polarization accumulates towards lateral sample edges and the in-plane polarization is finite throughout the entire normal region. At the same time, the spin-Hall current is absent in the considered case of the stationary Josephson effect.
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