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Odd Triplet Pairing in clean Superconductor/Ferromagnet heterostructures

Superconductivity 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

We study triplet pairing correlations in clean Ferromagnet (F)/Superconductor (S) nanojunctions, via fully self consistent solution of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. We consider FSF trilayers, with S being an s-wave superconductor, and an arbitrary angle α\alpha between the magnetizations of the two F layers. We find that contrary to some previous expectations, triplet correlations, odd in time, are induced in both the S and F layers in the clean limit. We investigate their behavior as a function of time, position, and α\alpha. The triplet amplitudes are largest at times on the order of the inverse ``Debye'' frequency, and at that time scale they are long ranged in both S and F. The zero temperature condensation energy is found to be lowest when the magnetizations are antiparallel.

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@article{arxiv.0704.1820,
  title  = {Odd Triplet Pairing in clean Superconductor/Ferromagnet heterostructures},
  author = {Klaus Halterman and Paul H. Barsic and Oriol T. Valls},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.1820},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Four pages, including four figures