Magnetization in Superconductor–Ferromagnetic Metal Bilayers Induced by the Inverse Proximity Effect

Within the Green’s function formalism, the magnetization induced by the inverse proximity effect in bilayers containing a superconductor and a strongly spin-polarized ferromagnetic metal is studied. The Usadel equations written for the dirty superconductor model are solved with boundary conditions suitable for strongly spin-polarized ferromagnetic materials. The cases of near-critical temperatures and a weak proximity effect are considered. The...