Signatures of retroreflection and induced triplet electron-hole correlations in ferromagnet/s-wave superconductor structures

dc.creatorLinder, J.
dc.creatorSudbø, A.
dc.date2007-03-15
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dc.descriptionWe present a theoretical study of a ferromagnet/s-wave superconductor junction to investigate the signatures of induced triplet correlations in the system. We apply the extended BTK-formalism and allow for an arbitrary magnetization strength/direction of the ferromagnet, a spin-active barrier, Fermi-vector mismatch, and different effective masses in the two systems. It is found that the phase associated with the $xy$-components of the magnetization in the ferromagnet couples with the superconducting phase and induces spin-triplet pairing correlations in the superconductor, if the tunneling barrier acts as a spin-filter. This feature leads to an induced spin-triplet pairing correlation in the ferromagnet, along with a spin-triplet electron-hole coherence due to an interplay between the ferromagnetic and superconducting phase. As our main result, we investigate the experimental signatures of retrorelection, manifested in the tunneling conductance of a ferromagnet/s-wave superconductor junction with a spin-active interface.
dc.description13 pages, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0703398
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0703398
dc.identifierPhys. Rev. B 75, 134509 (2007).
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/127633
dc.subjectSuperconductivity
dc.titleSignatures of retroreflection and induced triplet electron-hole correlations in ferromagnet/s-wave superconductor structures
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