Spin-polarized Josephson current in SFS junctions with inhomogeneous magnetization

Details Spin-polarized Josephson current in SFS junctions with inhomogeneous magnetization Spin-polarized Josephson current in SFS junctions with inhomogeneous magnetization

2009-09-29

arxiv.org/abs/0909.5427v1

Phys. Rev. B 81, 014512 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

9 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

SHORTENED ABSTRACT: We study numerically the properties of spin- and charge-transport in a nanoscale diffusive superconductor$\mid$ferromagnet$\mid$superconductor junction when the magnetization texture is non-uniform. Specifically, we incorporate the presence of a Bloch/Neel domain walls and conical ferromagnetism, including spin-active interfaces. The superconducting leads are assumed to be of s-wave type. We investigate how the 0-$\pi$ transition is influenced by the inhomogeneous magnetization texture and focus on the particular case where the charge-current vanishes while the spin-current is non-zero. In the case of a Bloch/Neel domain-wall, the spin-current can be seen only for one component of the spin polarization, whereas in the case of conical ferromagnetism the spin-current has the three components. We explain all of these results in terms of the interplay between the triplet anomalous Green's function induced in the ferromagnetic region and the local direction of the magnetization vector in the ferromagnet. Interestingly, we find that the spin-current exhibits discontinuous jumps at the 0--$\pi$ transition points of the critical charge-current. We explain this result in terms of the different symmetry obeyed by the current-phase relation when comparing the charge- and spin-current. Specifically, we find that whereas the charge-current obeys the well-known relation $I_c(\phi) = -I_c(2\pi-\phi)$, the spin-current satisfies $I_s(\phi) = I_s(2\pi-\phi)$, where $\phi$ is the superconducting phase difference.

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