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Title: Peculiar long-range supercurrent in superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junction containing a noncollinear magnetic domain in the ferromagnetic region

Abstract

We study the supercurrent in clean superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor heterostructure containing a noncollinear magnetic domain in the ferromagnetic region. It is demonstrated that the magnetic domain can lead to a spin-flip scattering process, which reverses the spin orientations of the singlet Cooper pair and simultaneously changes the sign of the corresponding electronic momentum. If the ferromagnetic layers on both sides of magnetic domain have the same features, the long-range proximity effect will take place. That is because the singlet Cooper pair will create an exact phase-cancellation effect and gets an additional π phase shift as it passes through the entire ferromagnetic region. Then, the equal spin triplet pair only exists in the magnetic domain region and can not diffuse into the other two ferromagnetic layers. So, the supercurrent mostly arises from the singlet Cooper pairs, and the equal spin triplet pairs are not involved. This result can provide a approach for generating the long-range supercurrent.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [1]
  1. School of Physics and Telecommunication Engineering, Shaanxi University of Technology, Hanzhong 723001 (China)
  2. National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093 (China)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22412818
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Journal of Applied Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 117; Journal Issue: 2; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0021-8979
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; COOPER PAIRS; DOMAIN STRUCTURE; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; LAYERS; PHASE SHIFT; PROXIMITY EFFECT; SPIN; SPIN FLIP; SPIN ORIENTATION; SUPERCONDUCTING JUNCTIONS; SUPERCONDUCTORS; TRIPLETS

Citation Formats

Meng, Hao, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, Wu, Xiuqiang, and Ren, Yajie. Peculiar long-range supercurrent in superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junction containing a noncollinear magnetic domain in the ferromagnetic region. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4905608.
Meng, Hao, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, Wu, Xiuqiang, & Ren, Yajie. Peculiar long-range supercurrent in superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junction containing a noncollinear magnetic domain in the ferromagnetic region. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4905608
Meng, Hao, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, Wu, Xiuqiang, and Ren, Yajie. 2015. "Peculiar long-range supercurrent in superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junction containing a noncollinear magnetic domain in the ferromagnetic region". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4905608.
@article{osti_22412818,
title = {Peculiar long-range supercurrent in superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junction containing a noncollinear magnetic domain in the ferromagnetic region},
author = {Meng, Hao and National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093 and Wu, Xiuqiang and Ren, Yajie},
abstractNote = {We study the supercurrent in clean superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor heterostructure containing a noncollinear magnetic domain in the ferromagnetic region. It is demonstrated that the magnetic domain can lead to a spin-flip scattering process, which reverses the spin orientations of the singlet Cooper pair and simultaneously changes the sign of the corresponding electronic momentum. If the ferromagnetic layers on both sides of magnetic domain have the same features, the long-range proximity effect will take place. That is because the singlet Cooper pair will create an exact phase-cancellation effect and gets an additional π phase shift as it passes through the entire ferromagnetic region. Then, the equal spin triplet pair only exists in the magnetic domain region and can not diffuse into the other two ferromagnetic layers. So, the supercurrent mostly arises from the singlet Cooper pairs, and the equal spin triplet pairs are not involved. This result can provide a approach for generating the long-range supercurrent.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4905608},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22412818}, journal = {Journal of Applied Physics},
issn = {0021-8979},
number = 2,
volume = 117,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}