Ferromagnetic proximity effect is studied in InAs nanowire (NW) based quantum dots (QD) strongly coupled to a ferromagnetic (F) and a superconducting (S) lead. The influence of the F lead is detected through the splitting of the spin-1/2 Kondo resonance. We show that the F lead induces a local exchange field on the QD, which has varying amplitude and a sign depending on the charge states. The interplay of the F and S correlations generates an exchange field related supgap feature. This novel mini-gap allows now the visualization of the exchange field also in even charge states
@article{arxiv.0910.3237,
title = {Ferromagnetic proximity effect in F-QDot-S device},
author = {L. Hofstetter and S. Csonka and A. Geresdi and M. Aagesen and J. Nygard and C. Schonenberger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.3237},
year = {2010}
}