Giant surface Edelstein effect in d-wave superconductors

ORAL

Abstract

Edelstein effect is useful for electric control of magnetic moment. However, Joule heating created by a dissipative current is harmful for its practical applications. We investigate two-dimensional noncentrosymmetric superconductors (NCSs) with either s-wave or d-wave symmetry, and demonstrate that a surface Edelstein effect is significantly enhanced in d-wave NCSs. In this talk, I will discuss the origin of the enhancement and show that this is attributed to surface Majorana states characteristic of gapless spin-singlet non-centrosymmetric superconductors. In the view of superconducting spintronics, this result would give a route to magnetic domain switching by dissipationless supercurrent.

*This work was supported by KAKENHI and by Core to Core program Oxide Superspin (OSS) international networking from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

Presenters

  • Yuhei Ikeda

    • Kyoto University

Authors

  • Yuhei Ikeda

    • Kyoto University
  • Youichi Yanase

    • Kyoto University
    • Kyoto Univ
    • Kyoto Univ.
    • Department of physics, Kyoto University