Atomic thickness hybrid F/S/F structures

Abstract

We propose an exactly solvable model to describe the properties of atomic thickness hybrid ferromagnet-superconductor-ferromagnet (F/S/F) structures. We show that the superconducting critical temperature is always higher for antiparallel orientation of the ferromagnetic moments. However at low temperature the superconducting gap occurs to be larger for parallel orientation of the ferromagnetic moments. This leads to a peculiar temperature dependence of the proximity effect in (F/S/F) structures.