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Signatures of Long-Range Spin-Triplet Component in Andreev Interferometer

Superconductivity 2021-07-27 v4

Abstract

We analyze the Josephson,IJI_{J}, and dissipative,IVI_{V}, currents in a magnetic Andreev interferometer in the presence of the long-range spin triplet component (LRSTC). Andreev interferometer has a cross-like geometry and consists of a SFl_{l} - F - Fr_{r}S circuit and perpendicular to it a N - F - N circuit, where S, Fl,r_{l,r} are superconductors and weak ferromagnets with non-collinear magnetisations Ml,r\mathbf{M}_{l,r}, F is a strong ferromagnet with a high exchange energy. The ferromagnetic wire F can be replaced with a non-magnetic wire n. In the limit of a weak proximity effect (PE), we obtain simple analytical expressions for the currents IJI_{J} and IVI_{V}. In particular, the critical Josephson current in a long Josephson junction (JJ) is Ic(α,β)=I0cχ(α,β)I_{c}(\alpha ,\beta )=I_{0c}\chi (\alpha ,\beta ), where the function % \chi (\alpha ,\beta ) is a function of angles (α,β)l,r(\alpha ,\beta )_{l,r} that characterize the orientations of Ml,r\mathbf{M}_{l,r}. The oscillating part of the dissipative current Iosc(V)=χ(α,β)cosφI0(V)I_{osc}(V)=\chi (\alpha ,\beta )\cos \varphi I_{0}(V) in the N - F(n)- N circuit depends on the angles (α,β)l,r(\alpha ,\beta )_{l,r} in the same way as the critical Josephson current Ic(α,β)I_{c}(\alpha ,\beta ), but can be much greater than the Ic(α,β)I_{c}(\alpha ,\beta ). At some angles the current Ic(α,β)I_{c}(\alpha ,\beta ) changes sign. We briefly discuss a relation between the negative current IcI_{c} and paramagnetic response. We argue that the measurements of the conductance in N - F(n) - N circuit can be used as another complementary method to identify the LRSTC in S/F heterostructures.

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@article{arxiv.2007.02757,
  title  = {Signatures of Long-Range Spin-Triplet Component in Andreev Interferometer},
  author = {Anatoly F. Volkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.02757},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

15 pages, 6 figures. Final version, some formulas are corrected