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Spin-polarized Shapiro steps and spin-precession-assisted multiple Andreev reflection

Superconductivity 2015-06-15 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We investigate the charge and spin transport of a voltage-biased superconducting point contact coupled to a nanomagnet. The magnetization of the nanomagnet is assumed to precess with the Larmor frequency, ωL\omega_L, due to ferromagnetic resonance. The interplay between the ac Josephson current and the magnetization dynamics leads to spin-polarized Shapiro steps at voltages V=ωL/2en|V|=\hbar \omega_L/2en for n=1,2,...n=1,2,... and the subharmonic steps with n>1n>1 are a consequence of multiple Andreev reflection (MAR). Moreover, the spin-precession-assisted MAR generates quasiparticle scattering amplitudes that, due to interference, lead to current-voltage characteristics of the dc charge and spin currents with subharmonic gap structures displaying an even-odd effect.

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@article{arxiv.1302.7107,
  title  = {Spin-polarized Shapiro steps and spin-precession-assisted multiple Andreev reflection},
  author = {Cecilia Holmqvist and Mikael Fogelström and Wolfgang Belzig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.7107},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

5 pages, 4 figures

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