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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 15: Superconductivity: Poster Session

TT 15.36: Poster

Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 14:00–18:00, Poster B

Multi-terminal Josephson Junctions with Ferromagnetic Elements — •Martin Leib and Wolfgang Belzig — Fachbereich Physik, Universität Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz

The interplay between magnetism and superconductivity in heterostructures has attracted considerable interest since the discovery of the 0-π transition in superconductor-ferromagnet (SF) contacts. Here we investigate the supercurrent in systems of multiple tunnel junctions in the framework of the quantum circuit theory. The considered network consists of two superconducting and two ferromagnetic reservoirs with non-collinear magnetization direction connected by tunnel contacts to a normal metal. We find and interesting interplay between the superconducting phase difference and the relative magnetization angle, which manifests itself in the current phase relation and the critical current.