Triplet superconducting proximity effect in nonhomogeneous magnetic materials

Статьи, посвященные столетию со дня рождения Л. В. Шубникова

Анотація

We show that quantum spin fluctuations in inhomogeneous conducting ferromagnets drastically affect the Andreev reflection of electrons and holes at a ferromagnet-superconductor interface. As a result, a strong long-range proximity effect appears, associated with electron-hole spin triplet correlations and persisting on a length scale typical for nonmagnetic materials but anomalously large for ferromagnets. For applications, an important consequence is that this long-range proximity effect permits to create superconducting quantum intetference devices with the Josephson magnetic junction of an anomalous large length.