Long range Josephson coupling through ferromagnetic graphene
Abstract
We study the Josephson effect in graphene-based ballistic superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor (SFS) junctions. We find an oscillatory Josephson coupling of F graphene whose amplitude is nonvanishing for a half-metallic graphene, increases for the exchange fields above the Fermi energy and shows only a slow damping at strong exchange fields . We interpret this long range Josephson coupling as the result of the exchange mediated Andreev-Klein process at FS interfaces which enhances the induced antiparallel-spin superconducting correlations in F graphene by increasing above . We further demonstrate the existence of regular temperature induced transitions between 0 and couplings in the plane of and where the phase boundaries have distinct shapes at the two regimes of below and above .
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@article{arxiv.0806.3611,
title = {Long range Josephson coupling through ferromagnetic graphene},
author = {Ali G. Moghaddam and Malek Zareyan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.3611},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 2 figures