Spin current injection via equal-spin Cooper pairs in ferromagnet/superconductor heterostructures
arXiv:2106.13988 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.107.094513
Abstract
Equal-spin Cooper pairs are pivotal building blocks for superconducting spintronics devices. In recent experiments, unusual behavior was observed in ferromagnet/ferromagnet/superconductor devices when a precession of the magnetization was induced by ferromagnetic resonance. By using a non-equilibrium Usadel Green function formalism, we study spin transport for such a setup. We solve for spin-resolved distribution functions and demonstrate that the spin injection process in superconductors is governed by the inverse proximity effect in the superconducting layer. We find that equal-spin Cooper pairs, which are produced by the two misaligned ferromagnetic layers, transport spin inside the S layer. This then results in an increase of the injected spin current below the superconducting critical temperature. Our calculations provide the first evidence of the essential role of equal-spin Cooper pairs on spin-transport properties of S/F devices and pave new avenues for the design of superconducting spintronics devices.
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