First-principles calculations of spin-triplet andreev reflection spectra at half-metallic ferromagnet/superconductor interface
Abstract
Combining the first-principles noncollinear calculations of scattering matrices with Andreev approximation, we investigated the spin-triplet Andreev reflection (AR) spectra for the interface between half-metallic ferromagnet CoMnSi and \emph{s}-wave BCS superconductor Al with and without interfacial roughness, where the orientations of magnetic moments near the interface are randomly distributed. The calculated results show that the AR spectra have peak structures near zero bias for the clean interface with relative weak magnetic disorder. With increasing the degree of interfacial roughness or magnetic disorder, these subgap peaks of conductance spectra will be washed out. The results also show that the value of subgap conductance spectrum can be raised significantly by the magnetic disorder. Finally, our calculations reveal that the long-range spin-triplet AR in CoMnSi/Al(001) interface can be enhanced by a small amount of interfacial roughness.
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@article{arxiv.1306.2721,
title = {First-principles calculations of spin-triplet andreev reflection spectra at half-metallic ferromagnet/superconductor interface},
author = {Ling Tang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.2721},
year = {2013}
}