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Long-range skin Josephson supercurrent across a van der Waals ferromagnet
The emerging field of superconducting spintronics promises new quantum device architectures without energy dissipation. When entering a ferromagnet, a supercurrent commonly behaves as a spin singlet that decays rapidly; in contrast, a spin-triplet supercurrent can transport over much longer distance...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10063542/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36997575 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37603-9 |
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author | Hu, Guojing Wang, Changlong Wang, Shasha Zhang, Ying Feng, Yan Wang, Zhi Niu, Qian Zhang, Zhenyu Xiang, Bin |
author_facet | Hu, Guojing Wang, Changlong Wang, Shasha Zhang, Ying Feng, Yan Wang, Zhi Niu, Qian Zhang, Zhenyu Xiang, Bin |
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description | The emerging field of superconducting spintronics promises new quantum device architectures without energy dissipation. When entering a ferromagnet, a supercurrent commonly behaves as a spin singlet that decays rapidly; in contrast, a spin-triplet supercurrent can transport over much longer distances, and is therefore more desirable, but so far has been observed much less frequently. Here, by using the van der Waals ferromagnet Fe(3)GeTe(2) (F) and spin-singlet superconductor NbSe(2) (S), we construct lateral Josephson junctions of S/F/S with accurate interface control to realize long-range skin supercurrent. The observed supercurrent across the ferromagnet can extend over 300 nm, and exhibits distinct quantum interference patterns in an external magnetic field. Strikingly, the supercurrent displays pronounced skin characteristics, with its density peaked at the surfaces or edges of the ferromagnet. Our central findings shed new light on the convergence of superconductivity and spintronics based on two-dimensional materials. |
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spelling | pubmed-100635422023-04-01 Long-range skin Josephson supercurrent across a van der Waals ferromagnet Hu, Guojing Wang, Changlong Wang, Shasha Zhang, Ying Feng, Yan Wang, Zhi Niu, Qian Zhang, Zhenyu Xiang, Bin Nat Commun Article The emerging field of superconducting spintronics promises new quantum device architectures without energy dissipation. When entering a ferromagnet, a supercurrent commonly behaves as a spin singlet that decays rapidly; in contrast, a spin-triplet supercurrent can transport over much longer distances, and is therefore more desirable, but so far has been observed much less frequently. Here, by using the van der Waals ferromagnet Fe(3)GeTe(2) (F) and spin-singlet superconductor NbSe(2) (S), we construct lateral Josephson junctions of S/F/S with accurate interface control to realize long-range skin supercurrent. The observed supercurrent across the ferromagnet can extend over 300 nm, and exhibits distinct quantum interference patterns in an external magnetic field. Strikingly, the supercurrent displays pronounced skin characteristics, with its density peaked at the surfaces or edges of the ferromagnet. Our central findings shed new light on the convergence of superconductivity and spintronics based on two-dimensional materials. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10063542/ /pubmed/36997575 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37603-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Hu, Guojing Wang, Changlong Wang, Shasha Zhang, Ying Feng, Yan Wang, Zhi Niu, Qian Zhang, Zhenyu Xiang, Bin Long-range skin Josephson supercurrent across a van der Waals ferromagnet |
title | Long-range skin Josephson supercurrent across a van der Waals ferromagnet |
title_full | Long-range skin Josephson supercurrent across a van der Waals ferromagnet |
title_fullStr | Long-range skin Josephson supercurrent across a van der Waals ferromagnet |
title_full_unstemmed | Long-range skin Josephson supercurrent across a van der Waals ferromagnet |
title_short | Long-range skin Josephson supercurrent across a van der Waals ferromagnet |
title_sort | long-range skin josephson supercurrent across a van der waals ferromagnet |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10063542/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36997575 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37603-9 |
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