Prof. Dr. Tomas Löfwander

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsTheoretical Condensed Matter Physics,Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
Keywordsmesoscopic devices, spin imbalance, spintronics, supercoductivity, transport theory

Current contact address

CountrySweden
CityGöteborg
InstitutionChalmers University of Technology
InstituteDepartment of Microelectronics and Nanoscience

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Gerd SchönInstitut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2005

Programme(s)

2005Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2008Thierry Champel, Tomas Löfwander, and Matthias Eschrig: 0-pi Transitions in a Superconductor/Chiral Ferromagnet/Superconductor Junction Induced by a Homogeneous Cycloidal Spiral. In: Physical Review Letters, 2008, 077003
2008Matthias Eschrig and Tomas Löfwander: Triplet supercurrents in clean and disordered half-metallic ferromagnets. In: Nature Physics, 2008, 138-143
2007Tomas Löfwander, Thierry Champel, and Matthias Eschrig: Phase diagrams of ferromagnet-superconductor multilayers with misaligned exchange fields. In: Physical Review B, 2007, 014512
2007M. Eschrig, T. Löfwander, T. Champel, J. C. Cuevas, J. Kopu, and Gerd Schön: Symmetries of Pairing Correlations in Superconductor-Ferromagnet Nanostructures. In: Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 2007, 457-476
2006V. Shelukhin, A. Tsukernik, M. Karpovski, Y. Blum, K.B. Efetov, A.F. Volkov, T. Champel, M. Eschrig, T. Löfwander, G. Schön, and A. Palevski: Observation of Periodic Pi Phase Shifts in FerromagnetSuperconductor Multilayers. In: Physical Review B, 2006, 174506