Amplitude control of the spin-triplet supercurrent in S/F/S Josephson junctions

Martinez, William M.; Pratt, Jr., W. P.; Birge, Norman O.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.077001

Title: Amplitude control of the spin-triplet supercurrent in $S / F / S$ Josephson junctions

Journal Article · Wed Feb 17 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.077001· OSTI ID:1325539

Martinez, William M. ^[1]; Pratt, Jr., W. P. ^[1]; Birge, Norman O. ^[1]

Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)

Josephson junctions made with conventional s-wave superconductors and containing multiple layers of ferromagnetic materials can carry spin-triplet supercurrent in the presence of certain types of magnetic inhomogeneity. In junctions containing three ferromagnetic layers, the triplet supercurrent is predicted to be maximal when the magnetizations of the adjacent layers are orthogonal, and zero when the magnetizations of any two adjacent layers are parallel. Here we demonstrate on-off control of the spin-triplet supercurrent in such junctions, achieved by rotating the magnetization direction of one of the three layers by 90°. We obtain “on-off” ratios of 5, 7, and 19 for the supercurrent in the three samples that have been studied so far. As a result, these observations directly confirm one of the most salient predictions of the theory, and they pave the way for applications of spin-triplet Josephson junctions in the nascent area of “superconducting spintronics”.

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Research Organization:: Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-06ER46341

OSTI ID:: 1325539

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1238198; OSTI ID: 1325540

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 116, Issue 7; ISSN 0031-9007

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