Abstract
A heterostructure comprising several ferromagnetic and superconducting layers acquires functionality of managing the superconducting properties of a system applying external magnetic field. At non-collinear magnetic configurations of the ferromagnetic layers, spin-triplet pairings can be induced in these heterostructures. The triplet pairing channel brings additional degrees of freedom to manage superconducting transition temperature in proximity effect superconducting spin valves. Applied to Josephson junctions’ physics, a robust long-range pairing in ferromagnetic weak links produces spin-polarized Josephson currents available for manipulations with magnetic fields and currents. The unique features of the spin-triplet pairings in superconductor–ferromagnet heterostructures make them promising for superconducting spintronics (supertronics).
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The authors gratefully acknowledge a long-term cooperation with C. Attanasio, I. Garifullin, S. Gsell, S. Horn, J.-M. Kehrle, D. Lenk, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, J. Lindner, C. Müller, J. Moosburger-Will, R. Morari, A. Prepelitsa, E. Antropov, E. Nold, G. Obermeier, V. Oboznov, S.L. Prischepa, C. Cirillo, J. Aarts, N. Pugach, V.V. Ryazanov, M. Schreck, R. Tidecks, H. Zabel, and V.I. Zdravkov. Special thanks to A.v. Humboldt Foundation (Karlsruhe-INT/Kishinev-IIEN Institutspartnerschaften-Project), to DFG (Grant No. HO 955/9-1), Russian Science Foundation (M.Yu.K, Grant No 17-12-01079) and Ministry of Education of the Republic Belarus. L.R.T. acknowledges partial support from RFBR (grant No 16-02-01171_a) and Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan (Institute for Advanced Studies ASRT). A.S.S. acknowledges support from STCU (grant No 6329), and the Moldova Academy of Sciences research project “Nonuniform superconductivity as the base for superconducting spintronics.”
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Tagirov, L.R., Kupriyanov, M.Y., Kushnir, V.N., Sidorenko, A. (2018). Superconducting Triplet Proximity and Josephson Spin Valves. In: Sidorenko, A. (eds) Functional Nanostructures and Metamaterials for Superconducting Spintronics. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90481-8_2
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