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We describe a systematic study of the exchange coupling between a magnetically hard metallic ferromagnet (MnAs) and a magnetically soft ferromagnetic semiconductor (GaMnAs) in bilayer and trilayer heterostructures. An exchange spring model…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 M. J. Wilson , M. Zhu , R. C. Myers , D. D. Awschalom , P. Schiffer , N. Samarth

On the basis of of linearized Usadel equations we consider superconductivity nucleation in multiply connected mesoscopic superconductor/ferromagnet hybrids such as thin-walled superconducting cylinders placed in electrical contact with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 A. V. Samokhvalov , A. S. Mel'nikov , J-P. Ader , A. I. Buzdin

Planar tunneling junctions of the presumably unconventional superconductor FeSe were prepared and investigated. The junctions consisted of FeSe/AlOx/Ag multilayers patterned lithographically into mesa structures. Bias voltage dependent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-30 Eike Venzmer , Alexander Kronenberg , Martin Jourdan

Experimental and theoretical studies on transport in semiconductor samples with superconducting electrodes are reported. We focus on the samples close to metal-insulator transition. In metallic samples, a peak of negative magnetoresistance…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 N. V. Agrinskaya , V. I. Kozub , A. V. Chernyaev , D. V. Shamshur , A. A. Zuzin

Under certain conditions, the order parameter induced by a superconductor (S) in a ferromagnet (F) can be inhomogeneous and oscillating, which results e.g. in the so-called pi-coupling in S/F/S junctions. In principle, the inhomogeneous…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Rusanov , R. Boogaard , M. Hesselberth , H. Sellier , J. Aarts

We study the transport properties of a graphene ferromagnet-insulator superconductor (FIS) junction within the Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk formalism by solving spin-polarized Dirac-Bogoliubov-de-Gennes equation. We find that the retro and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ya-Fen Hsu , Guang-Yu Guo

We have measured the electrical transport of submicron ferromagnets (Ni) in contact with a mesoscopic superconductor (Al) for a range of interface resistances. In the geometry measured, the interface and the ferromagnet are measured…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Aumentado , V. Chandrasekhar

Magnetization noncollinearity in ferromagnet-superconductor (F/S) heterostructures is expected to enhance the superconducting transition temperature (Tc) according to the domain-wall superconductivity theory, or to suppress Tc when…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-25 L. Y. Zhu , Yaohua Liu , F. S. Bergeret , J. E. Pearson , S. G. E. te Velthuis , S. D. Bader , J. S. Jiang

It is shown that in a structure consisting of a superconducting ring-shaped electrode overlapped by a normal metal contact through a thin oxide barrier, measurements of the tunnel current in magnetic field can probe persistent currents in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-04-07 K. Yu. Arutyunov , T. T. Hongisto , D. Y. Vodolazov

We present a microscopic theory of proximity effect in the ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet (F/S/F) nanostructures where S is s-wave low-T_c superconductor and F's are layers of 3d transition ferromagnetic metal. Our approach is based…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 A. Bagrets , C. Lacroix , A. Vedyayev

We report on a study of the structural, magnetic and superconducting properties of Nb(25nm)/Gd($d_f$)/Nb(25nm) hybrid structures of a superconductor/ ferromagnet (S/F) type. The structural characterization of the samples, including careful…

Hybrid Superconductor/Ferromagnet structures have been investigated recently to address the interplay between ferromagnetism and superconductivity. They also open up new routes for the investigation of out of equilibrium superconductivity.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Latempa , M. Aprili , I. Petkovic

It is generally believed that superconductivity and magnetism are two antagonistic long-range phenomena. However, as it was preliminarily highlighted in D. Stamopoulos et al. [Phys. Rev. B 75, 014501 (2007)] and extensively studied in this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Stamopoulos , E. Manios , M. Pissas

A ferromagnetic insulator (FI) attached to a conventional superconductor (S) changes drastically the properties of the latter. Specifically, the exchange field at the FI/S interface leads to a splitting of the superconducting density of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-21 Tero T Heikkilä , Mikhail Silaev , Pauli Virtanen , F. Sebastian Bergeret

The momentum distribution of the energy gap opening at the Fermi level of superconductors is a direct fingerprint of the pairing mechanism. While the phase diagram of the iron-based superconductors promotes antiferromagnetic fluctuations as…

The discovery of van der Waals magnets has established a new domain in the field of magnetism, opening novel pathways for the electrical control of magnetic properties. In this context, Fe3GeTe2 (FGT) emerges as an exemplary candidate owing…

Pseudorapidity gap distributions in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV are studied using a minimum bias data sample with an integrated luminosity of 7.1 inverse microbarns. Cross sections are measured differentially in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 ATLAS Collaboration

Surface oxidation of the bottom ferromagnetic (FM) electrode, one of the major detrimental factors to the performance of a Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ), is difficult to avoid during the fabrication process of the MTJ's tunnel barrier.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Wei Chen , Dao N. H. Nam , Jiwei Lu , Stuart A. Wolf

A method to identify the parity of unconventional superconductors is proposed based on tunneling spectroscopy. For a model of calculation, we adopt a ferromagnet/superconductor (F/S) junction of which tunneling current is spin polarized.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Hirai , N. Yoshida , Y. Tanaka , J. Inoue , S. Kashiwaya

Here I extend my last work about the origin of the pseudo-gaps in underdoped cuprates (arXiv: cond-mat. 1011.3206), to include the mechanism of superconductivity. This is done by adapting the formalism of the double correlations in systems…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-18 Moshe Dayan