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Anomalous polarization-dependent transport in nanoscale double-barrier superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor junctions
We study the transport properties of nanoscale superconducting (S) devices in
which two superconducting electrodes are bridged by two parallel ferromagnetic
(F) wires, forming an SFFS junction with a separation between the two wires
less than the superconducting coherence length. This allows crossed Andreev
reflection to take place. We find that the resistance as a function of
temperature exhibits behavior reminiscent of the re-entrant effect and, at low
temperatures and excitation energies below the superconducting gap, the
resistance corresponding to antiparallel alignment of the magnetization of the
ferromagnetic wires is higher than that of parallel alignment, in contrast to
the behavior expected from crossed Andreev reflection. We present a model based
on spin-dependent interface scattering that explains this surprising result and
demonstrates the sensitivity of the junction transport properties to
interfacial parameters.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Ferromagnetism in the Hubbard model with orbital degeneracy in infinite dimensions
We study the ferromagnetism due to orbital degeneracy in the Hubbard model in
infinite dimensions. The model contains the intraorbital repulsion , the
interorbital repulsion , the exchange (Hund coupling) and the
pair hopping , where all of them originate from the on-site Coulomb
interaction. The ground state of the effective one-site problem was obtained by
exact diagonalizations. At the 1/4-filling, we found two insulating phases; one
is a ferromagnetic phase with alternating orbital order and the other is
antiferromagnetic one with uniform orbital order. If electrons are doped into
the 1/4-filling, the ferromagnetic phase still survives and becomes metallic,
while the antiferromagnetic phase disappears. This result indicates that the
double-exchange mechanism is relevant to stabilize metallic ferromagnetism in
infinite dimensions.Comment: 4 pages, Revtex, 3 figures, corrected some typos and references, to
be published in Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communication
Origin of Spin Incommensurability in Hole-doped S=1 Chains
Spin incommensurability has been recently experimentally discovered in the
hole-doped Ni-oxide chain compound (G. Xu {\it
al.}, Science {\bf 289}, 419 (2000)). Here a two orbital model for this
material is studied using computational techniques. Spin IC is observed in a
wide range of densities and couplings. The phenomenon originates in
antiferromagnetic correlations ``across holes'' dynamically generated to
improve hole movement, as it occurs in the one-dimensional Hubbard model and in
recent studies of the two-dimensional extended t-J model. The close proximity
of ferromagnetic and phase-separated states in parameter space are also
discussed.Comment: RevTex, 4 pages, 4 figures (eps
Metallic ferromagnetism: Progress in our understanding of an old strong-coupling problem
Metallic ferromagnetism is in general an intermediate to strong coupling
phenomenon. Since there do not exist systematic analytic methods to investigate
such types of problems, the microscopic origin of metallic ferromagnetism is
still not sufficiently understood. However, during the last two or three years
remarkable progress was made in this field: It is now certain that even in the
one-band Hubbard model metallic ferromagnetism is stable in dimensions
2, and on regular lattices and at intermediate values of the
interaction and density . In this paper the basic questions and recent
insights regarding the microscopic conditions favoring metallic ferromagnetism
in this model are reviewed. These findings are contrasted with the results for
the orbitally degenerate case.Comment: 16 pages, 13 figures, latex using vieweg.sty (enclosed); typos
corrected; to appear in "Advances in Solid State Physics", Vol. 3
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