The project had three main objectives:
- Describe how interfacial SOC affects the most important spin transport phenomena through effective kinetic equations. This allows us to answer many open questions as the importance of thickness. (WP1)
- Develop DFT-based calculations in order to understand which are the key physical aspects ruling interfacial SOC. (WP2)
- Include interfacial SOC in order to understand how this interaction could play a central role in the appearance of long range triplet component superconductivity. (WP3)
The first objective has been completely achieved using two different methods. We have used a scattering matrix approach, in the same lines as the Landauer Büttiker approach, and developed the extended boundary conditions in order to use kinetic equations.
As it is has been previously explained the other two main objectives are still under current work at the moment. This is due to two different causes. Firstly during the study of the theoretical models of WP1 we have found very interesting and unexpected results which we had to deal with. It is worth to be noted the first description of spin-to-spin conversion due to interfacial spin-orbit coupling. The second cause is the difficulties we have found mostly due to the unexpected need of huge computational resources. However both WP2 and WP3 are on-going work and we expect to obtain the first results in the following months.
During the realization of the project, the researcher has dissiminated and communicated its result by the following ways:
- Through two peer-reviewed scientific publications.
- Through the realization of oral presentations in the 4 different conferences (APS March Meeting, Quantum Spintronics at interfaces, etc)
- Through the presentation of a poster in 4 different conferences, e.g. Spin Caloritronics 7
- Through the realization of 3 different seminars of one hour of duration in the following research institutions: SISSA (Trieste), ICN2 (Barcelona), The University of Missouri
- Through the participation in the Lanaldi program. The program consist on different meetings with high school students in order to explain them which is the work that researchers perform and try to make the science labour more accessible for them. The researcher has had several meetings with different students, most of them young women, helping the incorporation of women to science, one of the main objectives of H2020.
