Title: Spontaneous currents in superconducting systems with strong spin-orbit coupling,
Abstract: We show that Rashba spin-orbit coupling at the interface between a
superconductor and a ferromagnet should produce a spontaneous current in the
atomic thickness region near the interface. This current is counter-balanced by
the superconducting screening current flowing in the region of the width of the
London penetration depth near the interface. Such current carrying state
creates a magnetic field near the superconductor surface, generates a stray
magnetic field outside the sample edges, changes the slope of the temperature
dependence of the critical field $H_{c3}$ and may generate the spontaneous
Abrikosov vortices near the interface.