Usadel equation in the presence of intrinsic spin-orbit coupling: A unified theory of magneto-electric effects in normal and superconducting systems

Abstract

The Usadel equation is the standard theoretical tool for the description of superconducting structures in the diffusive limit. Here I derive the Usadel equation for gyrotropic materials with a generic linear in momentum spin-orbit coupling. It accounts for the spin-charge/singlet-triplet coupling and in the normal state reduces to the system of spin-charge diffusion equations describing various magneto-electric effects, such as the spin Hall effect (SHE), the spin-galvanic effect (SGE) and their inverses. Therefore the derived Usadel equation establishes a direct connection of these effects to their superconducting counterparts. The working power of the present formalism is illustrated on the example of the bulk SGE.

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