PhD Thesis Defense- Mikel Rouco Martín

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY IN THE PRESENCE OF SPIN-DEPENDENT FIELDS

November 18, 11:00

CFM Auditorium

Candidate: Mikel Rouco Martín

Supervisors: Sebastian Bergeret and Ilya Tokatly

Research group: Mesoscopic Physics

Interfacial bound states in an inverted junction between two antiferromagnetic chains of semiclassical magnetic impurities in a superconductor.

Summary

In this thesis, the candidate explored different aspects of the interaction between superconductivity and magnetism in mesoscopic systems.

His research covers studies of spectral and transport properties of superconductors with magnetic impurities and magnetic chains,  as well as the study of ferromagnetic insulator-superconductor systems for detector applications, and of a superconducting phase battery using materials with strong spin-orbit-coupling.