Abstract
We report on the first observation of a pronounced reentrant superconductivity phenomenon in a superconductor/ferromagnet layered system. The results were obtained using a superconductor/ferromagnetic-alloy bilayer of . The superconducting transition temperature drops sharply with increasing thickness of the ferromagnetic layer, until complete suppression of superconductivity is observed at . Increasing the layer thickness further, superconductivity reappears at . Our experiments give evidence for the pairing function oscillations associated with a realization of the quasi-one-dimensional Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov-like state in the ferromagnetic layer.
- Received 11 February 2006
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.057004
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