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Josephson effect between triplet superconductors through a ferromagnetic barrier of finite width

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 نشر من قبل Bogusz Bujnowski
 تاريخ النشر 2011
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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Charge and spin transport in a junction involving two triplet superconductors and a ferromagnetic barrier are studied. We use Bogoliubov-de Gennes wavefunctions to construct the Greens function, from which we obtain the Josephson currents in terms of the Andreev reflection coefficients. We focus on the consequences of a finite barrier width for the occurrence of 0-pi transitions and for the spin currents, and examine the appropriateness of the common delta-function approximation for the tunneling region.


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