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TY - JOUR
T1 - Magnon-assisted Andreev transport across ferromagnet-superconductor junctions
AU - McCann, E
AU - Tkachov, G
AU - Falko, Vladimir
PY - 2002/1
Y1 - 2002/1
N2 - We study subgap transport due to Andreev reflection in a ferromagnet-superconductor junction at low temperature. The mismatch of spin polarized current in the ferromagnet and spinless current in the Superconductor results in an additional contact resistance which can be reduced by magnon emission in the ferromagnet. We find that magnon-assisted Andreev reflection produces a non-linear contribution to the asymmetric part of the conductance, G(V)-G(-V), which is related to the density of states of magnons in the ferromagnet.
AB - We study subgap transport due to Andreev reflection in a ferromagnet-superconductor junction at low temperature. The mismatch of spin polarized current in the ferromagnet and spinless current in the Superconductor results in an additional contact resistance which can be reduced by magnon emission in the ferromagnet. We find that magnon-assisted Andreev reflection produces a non-linear contribution to the asymmetric part of the conductance, G(V)-G(-V), which is related to the density of states of magnons in the ferromagnet.
KW - Andreev reflection
KW - Spin polarized transport
KW - Magnon-assisted tunneling
U2 - 10.1016/S1386-9477(01)00414-3
DO - 10.1016/S1386-9477(01)00414-3
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
SP - 938
EP - 941
JO - Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures
JF - Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures
SN - 1386-9477
IS - 1-4
ER -