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Non-local Transport in Superconductor–Ferromagnet Hybrid Structures

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We review recent experimental results on non-local transport in superconductor–ferromagnet hybrid structures. We will focus mainly on crossed Andreev reflection and its relation to competing non-local transport phenomena such as elastic cotunneling, charge imbalance and spin diffusion.

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Beckmann, D. (2011). Non-local Transport in Superconductor–Ferromagnet Hybrid Structures. In: Sidorenko, A. (eds) Fundamentals of Superconducting Nanoelectronics. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20158-5_4

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