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Supercurrents in ferromagnets

Ferromagnetism and superconductivity are eternal enemies, so a current of superconducting pairs of electrons travelling within a ferromagnet raises several questions.

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Figure 1: Singlet to triplet conversion.

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Klapwijk, T. Supercurrents in ferromagnets. Nature Phys 6, 329–330 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1664

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