Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 85, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.134531
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- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- DFG [1538]
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The Andreev reflection amplitude at a clean interface between a half-metallic ferromagnet (H) and a superconductor (S) for which the half metal's magnetization has a gradient perpendicular to the interface is proportional to the excitation energy e and vanishes at epsilon = 0 [Beri et al., Phys. Rev. B 79, 024517 (2009)]. Here we show that the presence of impurities at or in the immediate vicinity of the HS interface leads to a finite Andreev reflection amplitude at epsilon = 0. This impurity-assisted Andreev reflection dominates the low-bias conductance of an HS junction and the Josephson current of an SHS junction in the long-junction limit.
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