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Superconductor-Ferromagnet Bi-Layers: a Comparison of s-Wave and d-Wave Order Parameters
We study superconductor-ferromagnet bi-layers, not only for s-wave but also
for d-wave superconductors. We observe oscillations of the critical temperature
when varying the thickness of the ferromagnetic layer for both s-wave and
d-wave superconductors. However, for a rotated d-wave order parameter the
critical temperature differs considerably from that for the unrotated case. In
addition we calculate the density of states for different thicknesses of the
ferromagnetic layer; the results reflect the oscillatory behaviour of the
superconducting correlations.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in J. Phys.: Condens.
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