Non-equilibrium supercurrent through mesoscopic ferromagnetic weak links

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2000 EDP Sciences
, , Citation T. T. Heikkilä et al 2000 EPL 51 434 DOI 10.1209/epl/i2000-00513-x

0295-5075/51/4/434

Abstract

We consider a mesoscopic normal metal, where the spin degeneracy is lifted by a ferromagnetic exchange field or Zeeman splitting, coupled to two superconducting reservoirs. As a function of the exchange field or the distance between the reservoirs, the supercurrent through this device oscillates with an exponentially decreasing envelope. This phenomenon is similar to the tuning of a supercurrent by a non-equilibrium quasiparticle distribution between two voltage-biased reservoirs. We propose a device combining the exchange field and non-equilibrium effects, which allows us to observe a range of novel phenomena. For instance, part of the field-suppressed supercurrent can be recovered by a voltage between the additional probes.

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10.1209/epl/i2000-00513-x