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We investigate Superconductor/Ferromagnet (S/F) hybrid structures in the dirty limit, described by the Usadel equations. More precisely, the oscillations of the critical temperature and critical current with the thickness of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Faure , A. I. Buzdin , A. A. Golubov , M. Yu. Kupriyanov

The theoretical and experimental results concerning the thermodynamical and low-frequency transport properties of hybrid structures, consisting of spatially-separated conventional low-temperature superconductor (S) and ferromagnet (F), is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-05-11 A. Yu. Aladyshkin , A. V. Silhanek , W. Gillijns , V. V. Moshchalkov

We report supercurrent transport measurements in hybrid Josephson junctions comprised of semiconducting InAs nanowires with epitaxial ferromagnetic insulator EuS and superconducting Al coatings. The wires display a hysteretic…

Motivated by recent progress in development of cryogenic memory compatible with single flux quantum (SFQ) circuits we have performed a theoretical study of magnetic SIsFS Josephson junctions, where 'S' is a bulk superconductor, 's' is a…

We present a study on low-$T_c$ superconductor-insulator-ferromagnet-superconductor (SIFS) Josephson junctions. SIFS junctions have gained considerable interest in recent years because they show a number of interesting properties for future…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-10-10 M. Weides , H. Kohlstedt , R. Waser , M. Kemmler , J. Pfeiffer , D. Koelle , R. Kleiner , E. Goldobin

We propose and analyze a mesoscopic Josephson junction consisting of two ferromagnetic insulator-superconductors (FI-Ss) coupled through a normal metal (N) layer. The Josephson current of the junction is non-trivially affected by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-28 E. Strambini , F. S. Bergeret , F. Giazotto

The difference between the phases of superconducting order parameter plays in superconducting circuits the role similar to that played by the electrostatic potential difference required to drive a current in conventional circuits. This…

Using the Usadel equation approach, we provide a compact formalism to calculate the critical current density of 21 different types of ferromagnetic (F) Josephson junctions containing insulating (I) and normal metal (N) layers in the weak…

Using a simple model of multi-band superconductors, which can be applied in particular to Fe\nobreakdash-based pnictides, we calculate the Josephson current $I_{\text{J}}$ in a tunnel junction composed by such superconductors. We employ the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-03-19 Andreas Moor , Anatoly F. Volkov , Konstantin B. Efetov

The interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism has long been pursued as a route to unconventional Josephson effects, yet suitable material platforms remain limited. Here we report Josephson junctions based on epitaxial…

We propose a picture for the magnetic properties of superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F) heterostructures based on Nb and permalloy (Py: Fe_{20}Ni_{80}). By measuring the magnetic moment as a function of the temperature in S/F/S trilayers for…

We study the pi phase in a superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor Josephson junction, with a ferromagnet showing a cycloidal spiral spin modulation with in-plane propagation vector. Our results reveal a high sensitivity of the junction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-02-21 Thierry Champel , Tomas Löfwander , Matthias Eschrig

Quantitative theory of the Josephson effect in SFIFS junctions (S denotes bulk superconductor, F - metallic ferromagnet, I - insulating barrier) is presented in the dirty limit. Fully self-consistent numerical procedure is employed to solve…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Golubov , M. Yu. Kupriyanov , Ya. V. Fominov

Magnetic Josephson junctions (MJJs) have emerged as a prominent playground to explore the interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism. A series of fascinating experiments have revealed striking phenomena at the…

Charge and spin Josephson currents in a ballistic superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junction with spin-triplet pairing symmetry are studied using the quasiclassical Eilenberger equation. The gap vector of superconductors has an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 Yousef Rahnavard , Gholamreza Rashedi , Takehito Yokoyama

The interfacial coupling of two materials with different ordered phases, such as a superconductor (S) and a ferromagnet (F) is driving new fundamental physics and innovative applications. For example, the creation of spin-filter Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-29 D. Massarotti , A. Pal , G. Rotoli , L. Longobardi , M. G. Blamire , F. Tafuri

The theoretical description of the thermodynamic properties of ferromagnetic/superconductor/ferromagnetic (F/S/F) systems of nanoscopic scale is proposed. Their superconducting characteristics strongly depend on the mutual orientation of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 I. Baladie , A. Buzdin

We study the Josephson transport through ferromagnetic insulators (FIs) by taking into account its band structure explicitly. In the case of the fully polarized FIs (FPFIs), we found the formation of a pi-junction and an atomic-scale 0-pi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-21 Shiro Kawabata , Yasuhiro Asano , Yukio Tanaka , Satoshi Kashiwaya

We theoretically study the Josephson effect in a superconductor/normal metal/superconductor ({\it S}/{\it N}/{\it S}) Josephson junction composed of $s$-wave {\it S}s with {\it N} which is sandwiched by two ferromagnetic insulators ({\it…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-08-06 Shin-ichi Hikino , Seiji Yunoki

We predict anomalous atomic-scale 0-pi transitions in a Josephson junction with a ferromagnetic-insulator (FI) barrier. The ground state of such junction alternates between 0- and pi-states when thickness of FI is increasing by a single…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-13 Shiro Kawabata , Yasuhiro Asano , Yukio Tanaka , Alexander A. Golubov , Satoshi Kashiwaya