Spin Transport in Ferromagnet-InSb Nanowire Quantum Devices

Yang, Zedong; Heischmidt, Brett; Gazibegovic, Sasa; Badawy, Ghada; Car, Diana; Crowell, Paul A.; Bakkers, Erik P. A. M.; Pribiag, Vlad S.

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b05331

Spin Transport in Ferromagnet-InSb Nanowire Quantum Devices

Journal Article · Mon Apr 27 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Nano Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b05331· OSTI ID:1618853

Yang, Zedong ^[1]; Heischmidt, Brett ^[2]; Gazibegovic, Sasa ^[3]; Badawy, Ghada ^[3]; ^[3]; Crowell, Paul A. ^[2]; Bakkers, Erik P. A. M. ^[3]; ^[2]

Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States); Univ of Minnesota
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
Eindhoven Univ. of Technology (Netherlands)

Signatures of Majorana zero modes (MZMs), which are the building blocks for fault-tolerant topological quantum computing, have been observed in semiconductor nanowires (NW) with strong spin-orbital-interaction (SOI), such as InSb and InAs NWs with proximity-induced superconductivity. Realizing topological superconductivity and MZMs in this most widely-studied platform also requires eliminating spin degeneracy, which is realized by applying a magnetic field to induce a helical gap. Yet, the applied field can adversely impact the induced superconducting state in the NWs and also places geometric restrictions on the device, which can affect scaling of future MZM-based quantum registers. These challenges could be circumvented by integrating magnetic elements with the NWs. With this motivation, in this work we report the first experimental investigation of spin transport across InSb NWs, which are enabled by devices with ferromagnetic (FM) contacts. We determine signatures of spin polarization and spin-dependent transport in the quasi-one-dimensional ballistic regime. Moreover, we show that electrostatic gating tunes the observed magnetic signal and also reveals a transport regime where the device acts as a spin filter. These results open an avenue towards developing MZM devices in which spin degeneracy is lifted locally, without the need of an applied magnetic field. They further provide a path for realizing spin-based devices that leverage spin-orbital states in quantum wires.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: European Research Council (ERC); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0019274

OSTI ID:: 1618853

Journal Information:: Nano Letters, Journal Name: Nano Letters Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 20; ISSN 1530-6984

Publisher:: American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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