Phase-controlled proximity-effect in ferromagnetic Josephson junctions: calculation of DOS and electronic specific heat

Details Phase-controlled proximity-effect in ferromagnetic Josephson junctions: calculation of DOS and electronic specific heat Phase-controlled proximity-effect in ferromagnetic Josephson junctions: calculation of DOS and electronic specific heat

2009-09-23

arxiv.org/abs/0909.4323v1

Phys. Rev. B 82, 014532 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

7 pages, 5 figures

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We study the thermodynamic properties of a dirty ferromagnetic S$\mid$F$\mid$S Josephson junction with s-wave superconducting leads in the low-temperature regime. We employ a full numerical solution with a set of realistic parameters and boundary conditions, considering both a uniform and non-uniform exchange field in the form of a Bloch domain wall ferromagnetic layer. The influence of spin-active interfaces is incorporated via a microscopic approach. We mainly focus on how the electronic specific heat and density of states (DOS) of such a system is affected by the \textit{proximity effect}, which may be tuned via the superconducting phase difference. Our main result is that it is possible to \textit{strongly modify the electronic specific heat} of the system by changing the phase difference between the two superconducting leads from 0 up to nearly $\pi$ at low temperatures. An enhancement of the specific heat will occur for small values $h\simeq\Delta$ of the exchange field, while for large values of $h$ the specific heat is suppressed by increasing the phase difference between the superconducting leads. These results are all explained in terms of the proximity-altered DOS in the ferromagnetic region, and we discuss possible methods for experimental detection of the predicted effect.

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