Anomalous surface impedance in a normal-metal/superconductor junction with a spin-active interface
Abstract
We discuss the surface impedance (Z=R-iX) of a normal-metal/superconductor proximity structure taking into account the spin-dependent potential at the junction interface. Because of the spin-mixing transport at the interface, odd-frequency spin-triplet s-wave Cooper pairs penetrate into the normal metal and cause the anomalous response to electromagnetic fields. At low temperature, the local impedance at a surface of the normal metal shows the nonmonotonic temperature dependence and the anomalous relation R>X. We also discuss a possibility of observing such anomalous impedance in experiments.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- July 2012
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1204.4012
- Bibcode:
- 2012PhRvB..86b4510A
- Keywords:
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- 74.45.+c;
- 74.50.+r;
- 74.25.F-;
- 74.70.-b;
- Proximity effects;
- Andreev effect;
- SN and SNS junctions;
- Tunneling phenomena;
- point contacts weak links Josephson effects;
- Superconducting materials;
- Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
- E-Print:
- 7pages, 7 figures