Exchange-induced ordinary reflection in a single-channel superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junction

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 22, 2004, Pages

  Cayssol, Jérôme ^a,b   Montambaux, Gilles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTRON; ENERGY; KINETICS; MASS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; ROTATION; SUPERCONDUCTOR; VELOCITY;

EID: 13844264478     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.224520     Document Type: Article

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