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Long range Josephson coupling through ferromagnetic graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-13 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

We study the Josephson effect in graphene-based ballistic superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor (SFS) junctions. We find an oscillatory Josephson coupling IcRNI_c R_N of F graphene whose amplitude is nonvanishing for a half-metallic graphene, increases for the exchange fields hh above the Fermi energy EFE_{F} and shows only a slow damping at strong exchange fields hEFh\gg E_{F}. 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 hh above EFE_{F}. We further demonstrate the existence of regular temperature induced transitions between 0 and π\pi couplings in the plane of TT and hh where the phase boundaries have distinct shapes at the two regimes of hh below and above EFE_{F}.

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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

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