2020/05/13 by Victor Aguilar, Demet Korucu, D. Korucu +7
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Anisotropy #Antiferromagnetism #Condensed matter physics #Cooper pair #Ferromagnetism #Josephson effect #Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials #Magnetic properties of thin films #Materials science #Physics #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum mechanics #Spin (aerodynamics) #Superconductivity #Supercurrent #cond-mat.supr-con
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.102.024518
published as Phys. Rev. B 102, 024518 (2020) · 9 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2020/05/13 · openalex publication_date 2020/07/23 · arxiv updated 2020/07/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
It is now established that ferromagnetic materials placed inside Josephson junctions can convert conventional spin-singlet supercurrent to spin-triplet supercurrent. While such spin-triplet supercurrent is fully polarized in a half-metal, it is only partially polarized in conventional ferromagnetic materials. This work shows that one can increase the spin polarization of the triplet supercurrent substantially by using a sequence of partially spin-polarizing interfaces inside the junction. The prospect of using spin-polarized supercurrents for device applications has spawned a new field called ``superconducting spintronics''.