Controlling spin pumping into superconducting Nb by proximity-induced spin-triplet Cooper pairs
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Author(s)
Cohen, Lesley
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Proximity-induced long-range spin-triplet supercurrents, important for the field of superconducting spintronics, are generated in superconducting/ferromagnetic heterostructures when interfacial magnetic inhomogeneities responsible for spin mixing and spin flip scattering are present. The multilayer stack Nb/Cr/Fe/Cr/Nb has been shown to support such exotic currents when fabricated into Josephson junction devices. However, creating pure spin currents controllably in superconductors outside of the Josephson junction architecture is a bottleneck to progress. Recently, ferromagnetic resonance was proposed as a possible direction, the signature of pure supercurrent creation being an enhancement of the Gilbert damping below the superconducting critical temperature, but the necessary conditions are still poorly established. Here, we demonstrate that pumping pure spin currents into a superconductor in the presence of an external magnetic field is only possible when conditions supporting proximity-induced spin-triplet effects are satisfied. Our study is an important step forward for superconducting pure spin current creation and manipulation, considerably advancing the field of superconducting spintronics.
Date Issued
2023-10-11
Date Acceptance
2023-09-11
Citation
Communications Physics, 2023, 6
ISSN
2399-3650
Publisher
Nature Portfolio
Journal / Book Title
Communications Physics
Volume
6
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Publication Status
Published
Article Number
287
Date Publish Online
2023-10-11