Costa, Andreas and Fabian, Jaroslav (2021) Superconducting triplet pairings and anisotropic magnetoresistance effects in ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet double-barrier junctions. PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 104 (17): 174504. ISSN 2469-9950, 2469-9969
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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 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 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 an additionally emerging triplet gap; the latter is an effective superconducting gap that can be ascribed to the formation of triplet Cooper pairs through interfacial spin-flip scatterings (i.e., to the generation of an effective triplet-pairing term in the order parameter). We thoroughly analyze the Andreev reflections' role in connection with superconducting magnetoresistance phenomena, and eventually unravel huge conductance and 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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | SPIN-POLARIZED SUPERCURRENTS; ANDREEV REFLECTION; JOSEPHSON CURRENT; FERROMAGNET; SPINTRONICS |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 530 Physics |
| Divisions: | Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Richter > Group Jaroslav Fabian |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jul 2022 07:52 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jul 2022 07:52 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/45795 |
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