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Long-range spin-triplet proximity effect in Josephson junctions with multilayered ferromagnets

Superconductivity 2015-03-17 v2

Abstract

We study the proximity effect in SF'(AF)F'S and SF'(F)F'S planar junctions, where S is a clean conventional (s-wave) superconductor, while F' and middle layers are clean or moderately diffusive ferromagnets. Middle layers consist of two equal ferromagnets with antiparallel (AF) or parallel (F) magnetizations that are not collinear with magnetizations in the neighboring F' layers. We use fully self-consistent numerical solutions of the Eilenberger equations to calculate the superconducting pair amplitudes and the Josephson current for arbitrary thickness of ferromagnetic layers and the angle between in-plane magnetisations. For moderate disorder in ferromagnets the triplet proximity effect is practically the same for AF and F structures, like in the dirty limit. Triplet Josephson current is dominant for dvF/2hd'\approx\hbar v_F/2h', where dd' is the F' layer thickness and hh' is the exchange energy. Our results are in a qualitative agreement with the recent experimental observations [T. S. Khaire, M. A. Khasawneh, W. P. Pratt, and N. O. Birge, Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{104}, 137002 (2010)].

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@article{arxiv.1005.1867,
  title  = {Long-range spin-triplet proximity effect in Josephson junctions with multilayered ferromagnets},
  author = {Luka Trifunovic and Zoran Radovic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.1867},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures

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