Triplet supercurrents in clean and disordered half-metallic ferromagnets
By M. Eschrig, T. Löfwander. 2006
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Interfaces between materials with differently ordered phases present unique opportunities to study fundamental problems in physics. One example is the interface between a singlet superconductor and a half-metallic ferromagnet, where Cooper pairing occurs between electrons with opposite spin on the superconducting side, whereas the other exhibits 100% spin polarization. The recent surprising observation of a supercurrent through half-metallic CrO2 therefore requires a mechanism for conversion between unpolarized and completely spin-polarized supercurrents. Here, we suggest a conversion mechanism based on electron spin precession together with triplet-pair rotation at interfaces with broken spin-rotation symmetry. In the diffusive limit (short mean free path), the triplet supercurrent is dominated by inter-related odd-frequency s-wave and even-frequency p-wave pairs. In the crossover to the ballistic limit, further symmetry components become relevant. The interface region exhibits a superconducting state of mixed-spin pairs with highly unusual symmetry properties that open up new perspectives for exotic Josephson devices.
Subfields: Condensed Matter Physics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
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- Superconducting spintronics (2015, background): “faces [75] where a net interface magnetic moment is misaligned to the bulk magnetization.”
- Focused electron beam induced deposition meets materials science (2017, background): “However, under some circumstances the presence of ferromagnetism may lead to triplet superconducting pairing [96, 78, 97, 98].”
- Odd-frequency superconductivity (2017, background): “(Eschrig and Löfwander, 2008) to account for the presence of impurity scattering and where the role of oddω pairing was explicitly discussed.”