Josephson effect in SIFS with an inhomogeneous superconductor/ferromagnet interface

Allerton Press - Tập 72 - Trang 148-151 - 2008
M. Yu. Kupriyanov1, N. G. Pugach2, M. M. Khapaev3, A. V. Vedyaev2, E. B. Goldobin4, D. Koelle4, R. Kleiner4
1Skobel’tsyn Research Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, Russia
2Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Leninskie gory, Moscow, Russia
3Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University, Leninskie gory, Moscow, Russia
4Physical Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Tóm tắt

The Josephson effect in a superconductor-insulator-ferromagnet-superconductor structure with a stepwise change in the transparency of the superconductor/ferromagnet interface has been investigated within the formalism of the Usadel equations. It is shown that, at a certain thickness of the ferromagnet layer, this feature leads to the formation of a point contact with an anomalous dependence of the critical current on the external magnetic field.

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