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Interference phenomena and long - range proximity effect in clean superconductor -- ferromagnet systems

Authors :
Alexandre I. Buzdin
S. M. Kuznetsova
A. V. Samokhvalov
Alexei S. Melnikov
Institute for Physics of Microstructures of the RAS
Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow] (RAS)
Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d'Aquitaine (LOMA)
Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Institut Universitaire de France (IUF)
Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.)
Russian Foundation for Basic Research, FTP 'Scientific and Educational Personnel of Innovative Russia in 2009-2013,' and LEA program 'Physique Theorique et Matiere Condensee.'
European Project: 246937,EC:FP7:PEOPLE,FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IRSES,SIMTECH(2010)
Source :
Physical Review Letters, Physical Review Letters, 2012, 109 (23), pp.237006 (1-5). ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.237006⟩, Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society, 2012, 109 (23), pp.237006 (1-5). ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.237006⟩
Publication Year :
2012
Publisher :
HAL CCSD, 2012.

Abstract

We study peculiarities of proximity effect in clean superconductor -- ferromagnet structures caused by either spatial or momentum dependence of the exchange field. Even a small modulation of the exchange field along the quasiparticle trajectories is shown to provide a long range contribution to the supercurrent due to the specific interference of particle- and hole- like wave functions. The momentum dependence of the exchange field caused by the spin -- orbit interaction results in the long -- range superconducting correlations even in the absence of ferromagnetic domain structure and can explain the recent experiments on ferromagnetic nanowires.<br />5 pages, 2 figures

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00319007 and 10797114
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physical Review Letters, Physical Review Letters, 2012, 109 (23), pp.237006 (1-5). ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.237006⟩, Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society, 2012, 109 (23), pp.237006 (1-5). ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.237006⟩
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....68bddf43b347fb26c17852b2b6b890dc
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.237006⟩