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Optimization of Spin-triplet Supercurrent in Ferromagnetic Josephson Junctions

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Benjamin James McMorran, Theresa Ginley, Julie Borchers, Brian Kirby, Brian B. Maranville, John Unguris

Abstract

In the past year, several groups have observed evidence for long-range spin-triplet, supercurrent in Josephson junctions containing ferromagnetic (F) materials. In our work, the spin-triplet pair correlations are created by non-collinear magnetizations between a central Co/Ru/Co "synthetic antiferromagnet" (SAF) and two outer think F layers. Here we present data showing that the spin-triplet supercurrent is enhanced up to 20 times after our samples are subject to a large in-plane magnetizing field. This surprising result can be explained if the Co/Ru/Co SAF undergones a "spin-flop" transition, whereby the two Co layer magnetizations end up perpendicular to the magnetizations of the two think F layers. Direct experimental evidence for the spin-flop transition comes from scanning electron microscopy with polarization analysis and from spin-polorized neutron reflectometry.
Citation
Physical Review Letters
Volume
108
Issue
12
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

Josephson Junction, Supercurrent Effect, Spin-flop transition, Polarized neutron reflectivity, SEMPA

Citation

McMorran, B. , Ginley, T. , Borchers, J. , Kirby, B. , Maranville, B. and Unguris, J. (2012), Optimization of Spin-triplet Supercurrent in Ferromagnetic Josephson Junctions, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=909367 (Accessed October 17, 2025)

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Created March 19, 2012, Updated October 12, 2021
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