Spontaneous currents in a ferromagnet - normal metal - superconductor trilayer

Details Spontaneous currents in a ferromagnet - normal metal - superconductor trilayer Spontaneous currents in a ferromagnet - normal metal - superconductor trilayer

2005-09-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0509623v1

Acta Phys. Pol. A109, 507 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

6 pages, 4 figures

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We discuss the ground state properties of the system composed of a normal metal sandwiched between ferromagnet and superconductor within a tight binding Hubbard model. We have solved the spin-polarized Hartree-Fock-Gorkov equations together with the Maxwell's equation (Ampere's law) and found a proximity induced Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state in this system. Here we show that the inclusion of the normal metal layer in between those subsystems does not necessarily lead to the suppression of the FFLO phase. Moreover, we have found that depending on the thickness of the normal metal slab the system can be switched periodically between the state with the spontaneous current flowing to that one with no current. All these effects can be explained in terms of the Andreev bound states formed in such structures.

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