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Costa, Andreas ; Fabian, Jaroslav

Superconducting triplet pairings and anisotropic tunneling-magnetoresistance effects in ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet double-barrier junctions

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Costa, Andreas and Fabian, Jaroslav (2021) Superconducting triplet pairings and anisotropic tunneling-magnetoresistance effects in ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet double-barrier junctions. arXiv preprint. (Submitted)

DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.47736

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Ferromagnetic spin valves offer the key building blocks to integrate giant- and tunneling-magnetoresistance effects into spintronics devices. Starting from a generalized Blonder--Tinkham--Klapwijk approach, we theoretically investigate the impact of interfacial Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings on the tunneling conductance, and thereby the tunneling-magnetoresistance characteristics, of ...

Ferromagnetic spin valves offer the key building blocks to integrate giant- and tunneling-magnetoresistance effects into spintronics devices. Starting from a generalized Blonder--Tinkham--Klapwijk approach, we theoretically investigate the impact of interfacial Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings on the tunneling conductance, and thereby the tunneling-magnetoresistance characteristics, of ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet spin-valve junctions embedding thin superconducting spacers between the either parallel or antiparallel magnetized ferromagnets. We focus on the unique interplay between usual electron tunnelings -- that fully determine the tunneling magnetoresistance in the normal-conducting state -- and the peculiar Andreev reflections in the superconducting state. In the presence of interfacial spin-orbit couplings, special attention needs to be paid to the spin-flip ("unconventional") Andreev-reflection process that is expected to induce superconducting triplet correlations in proximitized regions. As a transport signature of these triplet pairings, we detect conductance double-peaks around the singlet-gap energy, reflecting the competition between the singlet and the newly emerging triplet gap. We thoroughly analyze the Andreev reflections' role in connection with superconducting tunneling-magnetoresistance phenomena, and eventually unravel huge conductance and tunneling-magnetoresistance magnetoanisotropies -- easily exceeding their normal-state counterparts by several orders of magnitude -- as another experimentally accessible fingerprint of unconventional Andreev reflections. Our results provide an important contribution to establish superconducting magnetic spin valves as an essential ingredient for future superconducting-spintronics concepts.



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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitlearXiv preprint
PublisherarXiv.org
Date29 July 2021
Date of publication02 Aug 2021 04:57
InstitutionsPhysics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Richter > Group Jaroslav Fabian
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2107.13818v1arXiv ID
Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 530 Physics
StatusSubmitted
RefereedNo, this version has not been refereed yet (as with preprints)
Created at the University of RegensburgYes
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-477360
Item ID47736

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