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Hakimeh Mohammadpour

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Generation of non-equilibrium spin-motive force at the surface of a topological insulator induced by current-driven domain wall motion in the magnetic substrate

The generalized Faraday method can be used for computation of spin-motive force (SMF) within the unitary transformation approach. Meanwhile, the unitary transformation approach, which could be employed to obtain an effective collinear exchange interaction of non-collinear magnetic structures, cannot be used when the other parts of the Hamiltonian contain spin-dependent couplings. In the current study, the method of unitary transformation has been generalized to systems with spin-momentum coupling. In this way, the SMF at topological insulator surfaces has been computed analytically.

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Andreev-Klein reflection in graphene ferromagnet-superconductor junctions

We show that Andreev reflection in a junction between ferromagnetic (F) and superconducting (S) graphene regions is fundamentally different from the common FS junctions. For a weakly doped F graphene with an exchange field $h$ larger than its Fermi energy $E_{\rm F}$, Andreev reflection of massless Dirac fermions is associated with a Klein tunneling through an exchange field p-n barrier between two spin-split conduction and valence subbands. We find that this Andreev-Klein process results in an enhancement of the subgap conductance of a graphene FS junction by $h$ up to the point at which the conductance at low voltages $eV\ll Δ$ is greater than its value for the corresponding non-ferromagnetic junction. We also demonstrate that the Andreev reflection can be of retro or specular types in both convergent and divergent ways with the reflection direction aligned, respectively, closer to and farther from the normal to the junction as compared to the incidence direction.

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