Ml. Kulic et M. Endres, Ferromagnetic-semiconductor-singlet-(or triplet) superconductor-ferromagnetic-semiconductor systems as possible logic circuits and switches, PHYS REV B, 62(17), 2000, pp. 11846-11853
We consider thin superconducting (S) films of thickness d much less than xi
(0), sandwiched between two ferromagnetic semiconducting insulators (FI) w
ith differently orientated magnetizations-the FI-S-FI system. We calculate
the dependence of the superconducting critical temperature on the orientati
on of the magnetization in the insulators and on the thickness of the super
conducting film. The calculations are done for singlet as well as triplet s
uperconductors. In the singlet case T-c depends on the relative orientation
of the left and right magnetization only, while in the triplet case T-c de
pends on the absolute orientation of magnetization. The latter property can
serve as a kind of spin spectroscopy of triplet and unconventional superco
nductors, for instance in resolving the structure of the triplet order para
meter in the recently discovered layered superconductor Sr2RuO4. The possib
ility of logic circuits and switches, which are based on the FI-S-FI system
s with arbitrary orientation of magnetizations in FT films, is analyzed too
.