Nonhomogeneous magnetization and superconductivity in superconductor-ferromagnet structures

Details Nonhomogeneous magnetization and superconductivity in superconductor-ferromagnet structures Nonhomogeneous magnetization and superconductivity in superconductor-ferromagnet structures

2007-05-15

arxiv.org/abs/0705.2174v1

Physica C, Vol. 367, 107 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0921-4534(01)00975-3

We study two different superconductor-ferromagnet (S/F) structures. We consider first a Josephson junction which consists of two S/F bilayers separated by an insulating layer. We show that for an antiparallel alignment of the magnetization in the two F layers the Josephson critical current $I_c$ increases with increasing exchange field $h$. The second system we consider is a S/F structure with a local inhomogeneity of the magnetization in the ferromagnet near the S/F interface. Due to the proximity effect not only a singlet but also a triplet component of the superconducting condensate is induced in the ferromagnet. The latter penetrates over the length $\sqrt{D/\epsilon}$ ($D$ is the diffusion coefficient and $\epsilon$ the energy). In the case of temperatures of the order of the Thouless energy this length is comparable to the length of the ferromagnet. This long-range penetration leads to a significant increase of the ferromagnet conductance below the superconducting critical temperature $T_c$. Contrary to the case of the singlet component, the contribution to the conductance due to the odd triplet component is not zero at $T = 0$ and $V = 0$ ($V$ is the voltage) and decays with increasing temperature T in a monotonic way

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