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Phys. Rev. B 75, 104509 (2007) [12 pages]

Josephson effect due to the long-range odd-frequency triplet superconductivity in SFS junctions with Néel domain walls

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Ya. V. Fominov1,*, A. F. Volkov2,3,†, and K. B. Efetov2,1
1L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics RAS, 119334 Moscow, Russia
2Theoretische Physik III, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
3Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 103907 Moscow, Russia

Received 16 October 2006; revised 10 December 2006; published 20 March 2007

We consider a SFS Josephson junction made of two superconductors S and a multidomain ferromagnet F with an in-plane magnetization. We assume that the neighboring domains of the ferromagnet are separated by Néel domain walls. An odd-frequency triplet long-range component of superconducting correlations arises in the domain walls and spreads into the domains over a long distance of the order ξT=√D∕2πT, where D is the diffusion coefficient (dirty limit is implied). We calculate the contribution of this component to the Josephson current in the situation when conventional short-range components exponentially decay over the thickness of the F layer and can be neglected. In the limit when the thickness of the F layer is much smaller than the penetration length of the long-range component, we find that the junction is in the π state. We also analyze a correction to the density of states due to the long-range triplet component.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.75.104509
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.75.104509
PACS:
74.50.+r, 74.45.+c, 74.78.Fk, 75.70.Kw

*Electronic address: fominov@landau.ac.ru

Electronic address: volkov@tp3.rub.de