Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2010-05-11
Phys. Rev. B 82, 020505(R) (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
4 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.82.020505
We study the proximity effect in SF'(AF)F'S and SF'(F)F'S planar junctions, where S is a clean conventional (s-wave) superconductor, while F' and middle layers are clean or moderately diffusive ferromagnets. Middle layers consist of two equal ferromagnets with antiparallel (AF) or parallel (F) magnetizations that are not collinear with magnetizations in the neighboring F' layers. We use fully self-consistent numerical solutions of the Eilenberger equations to calculate the superconducting pair amplitudes and the Josephson current for arbitrary thickness of ferromagnetic layers and the angle between in-plane magnetisations. For moderate disorder in ferromagnets the triplet proximity effect is practically the same for AF and F structures, like in the dirty limit. Triplet Josephson current is dominant for $d'\approx\hbar v_F/2h'$, where $d'$ is the F' layer thickness and $h'$ is the exchange energy. Our results are in a qualitative agreement with the recent experimental observations [T. S. Khaire, M. A. Khasawneh, W. P. Pratt, and N. O. Birge, Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{104}, 137002 (2010)].
Radovic Zoran
Trifunovic Luka
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