Spin-polarized supercurrents for spintronics

M Eschrig - Physics Today, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
The year 1911 was remarkable for physics in several respects. Ernest Rutherford postulated
the existence of the atomic nucleus, which led him to his atom model; Max Planck introduced …

Superconducting proximity effect and possible evidence for Pearl vortices in a candidate topological insulator

D Zhang, J Wang, AM DaSilva, JS Lee… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
We report the observation of the superconducting proximity effect in nanoribbons of a
candidate topological insulator (Bi 2 Se 3), which is interfaced with superconducting …

Magnetic-coupling-dependent spin-triplet supercurrents in helimagnet/ferromagnet Josephson junctions

GB Halász, MG Blamire, JWA Robinson - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2011 - APS
The experimental achievements during the past year in demonstrating the existence of long-
ranged spin-triplet supercurrents in ferromagnets proximity coupled to singlet …

Spin-triplet supercurrent in Co-based Josephson junctions

MA Khasawneh, TS Khaire, C Klose… - Superconductor …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
In the past year several groups have reported experimental evidence for spin-triplet
supercurrents in Josephson junctions containing strong ferromagnetic materials. In this …

Interaction of Josephson and magnetic oscillations in Josephson tunnel junctions with a ferromagnetic layer

S Mai, E Kandelaki, AF Volkov, KB Efetov - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2011 - APS
We study the dynamics of Josephson junctions with a thin ferromagnetic layer F
[superconductor-ferromagnet-insulator-ferromagnet-superconductor (SFIFS) junctions]. In …

Domain walls and long-range triplet correlations in SFS Josephson junctions

AI Buzdin, AS Mel'Nikov, NG Pugach - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2011 - APS
We study the contribution of domain walls to the Josephson current through a ferromagnetic
metal both in clean and diffusive limits. Our consideration of these limits is based on the …

Josephson effect and spin-triplet pairing correlations in SFFS junctions

L Trifunovic, Z Popović, Z Radović - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2011 - APS
We study theoretically the Josephson effect and pairing correlations in planar SF 1 F 2 S
junctions that consist of conventional superconductors (S) connected by two metallic …

Inducing supercurrents in thin films of ferromagnetic CrO2

MS Anwar, J Aarts - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
It is becoming gradually clear that it is possible to induce superconducting correlations in
ferromagnets by generating so-called odd-frequency triplet Cooper pairs, which have two …

Triplet superconductivity in a ferromagnetic vortex

MS Kalenkov, AD Zaikin, VT Petrashov - Physical Review Letters, 2011 - APS
We argue that triplet superconductivity can be conveniently realized in hybrid
superconductor-ferromagnet (SF) structures with a ferromagnetic vortex. We demonstrate …

Quasiparticle energy relaxation times in NbN/CuNi nanostripes from critical velocity measurements

C Cirillo, V Pagliarulo, H Myoren, C Bonavolontà… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
The dynamic instability of the moving vortex lattice at high driving currents in NbN/CuNi-
based and NbN nanostripes designed for optical detection has been studied. By applying …