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No charge for spin transport

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In superconductors spin and charge can be completely decoupled leading to unusual transport phenomena, such as nearly chargeless spin flow.

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Figure 1: Schematic of spin injection into a superconductor.

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  1. Nadya Mason and Martin Stehno are in the Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3080, USA,

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Mason, N., Stehno, M. No charge for spin transport. Nature Phys 9, 67–68 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2529

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