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Temperature dependence of spin-polarized transport in ferromagnet/unconventional superconductor junctions

T. Hirai, Y. Tanaka, N. Yoshida, Y. Asano, J. Inoue, S. Kashiwaya

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.174501 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

Tunneling conductance in ferromagnet/unconventional superconductor junctions is studied theoretically as a function of temperature and spin polarization in ferromagnets. In d-wave superconductor junctions, a zero-energy Andreev bound state drastically affects the temperature dependence of the zero-bias conductance (ZBC). In p-wave superconductor junctions, numerical results show various temperature dependences of the ZBC depending on the direction of the magnetic moment in ferromagnets and the pairing symmetry in superconductors such as px−, py−, and px+ipy-wave symmetries. The last one is a candidate for the pairing symmetry of Sr2RuO4. From these characteristic features in the conductance, we may obtain information about the degree of spin polarization in ferromagnets and the direction of the d vector in spin-triplet superconductors.

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Sr2RuO4

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UBe13

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(TMTSF)2X

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YBa2Cu3O7-x

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