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VOLUME 91 | ISSUE 6 | PAGE 329 Superconducting triplet spin valve Ya. V. Fominov+, A. A. Golubov *, T. Yu. Karminskaya, M. Yu. Kupriyanov, R. G. Deminov, L. R. Tagirov +L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics RAS, 119334 Moscow, Russia *Faculty of Science and Technology and MESA+ Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands Nuclear Physics Institute, Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia Physics Faculty, Kazan State University, 420008 Kazan, Russia Abstract We study the critical temperature Tc of SFF trilayers (S is a singlet superconductor, F is a ferromagnetic metal), where the long-range triplet superconducting component is generated at noncollinear magnetizations of the F layers. We demonstrate that Tc can be a nonmonotonic function of the angle α between the magnetizations of the two F layers. The minimum is achieved at an intermediate α, lying between the parallel (P, α=0) and antiparallel (AP, α=π) cases. This implies a possibility of a «triplet» spin-valve effect: at temperatures above the minimum but below and , the system is superconducting only in the vicinity of the collinear orientations. At certain parameters, we predict a reentrant Tc(α) behavior. At the same time, considering only the P and AP orientations, we find that both the «standard» () and «inverse» () switching effects are possible depending on parameters of the system. Download PS file (GZipped, 161K)  |  Download PDF file (205.8K) Список работ, цитирующих данную статью, см. здесь. List of articles citing this article can be found here.