A diagrammatic approach for a clean multiferromagnetic Josephson junction
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, University of Crete, PO Box 2208, 71003 Heraklion (Greece)
Description
We consider a superconductor/multiferromagnet/superconductor (S/I/F1/. . ./Fn/I/S) ballistic junction with thin insulating layers in the interfaces. We develop a diagrammatic approach for the equation that determines the Andreev spectrum, by examining the closed loops in the intermediate ferromagnetic layers. It is expressed in terms of the S/F and F/F interface scattering amplitudes. A set of rules is determined. Several analytical formulas are obtained, and in particular we study the triple ferromagnetic layer case. We also obtain the maximum current from the scattering matrix, and show that it is consistent with the diagrammatic approach. A specific application is the asymmetric S/F/I/S junction. The diagrammatic approach is also checked with the matrix of scattering amplitudes method
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1088/1751-8113/40/43/002;
- PII
- S1751-8113(07)53477-3;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and Theoretical (Online)
- Journal Volume
- 40
- Journal Issue
- 43
- Journal Page Range
- p. 12829-12862
- ISSN
- 1751-8121
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39012594
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ASYMMETRY; EQUATIONS; INTERFACES; JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS; LAYERS; SCATTERING; SCATTERING AMPLITUDES; SPECTRA; SUPERCONDUCTORS
- Descriptors DEC
- AMPLITUDES; SUPERCONDUCTING JUNCTIONS