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Long-range supercurrents through a chiral non-collinear antiferromagnet in lateral Josephson junctions
Nature Materials ( IF 37.2 ) Pub Date : 2021-08-05 , DOI: 10.1038/s41563-021-01061-9
Kun-Rok Jeon 1 , Binoy Krishna Hazra 1 , Kyungjune Cho 1 , Anirban Chakraborty 1 , Jae-Chun Jeon 1 , Hyeon Han 1 , Holger L Meyerheim 1 , Takis Kontos 2 , Stuart S P Parkin 1
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The proximity-coupling of a chiral non-collinear antiferromagnet (AFM)1,2,3,4,5 with a singlet superconductor allows spin-unpolarized singlet Cooper pairs to be converted into spin-polarized triplet pairs6,7,8, thereby enabling non-dissipative, long-range spin correlations9,10,11,12,13,14. The mechanism of this conversion derives from fictitious magnetic fields that are created by a non-zero Berry phase15 in AFMs with non-collinear atomic-scale spin arrangements1,2,3,4,5. Here we report long-ranged lateral Josephson supercurrents through an epitaxial thin film of the triangular chiral AFM Mn3Ge (refs. 3,4,5). The Josephson supercurrents in this chiral AFM decay by approximately one to two orders of magnitude slower than would be expected for singlet pair correlations9,10,11,12,13,14 and their response to an external magnetic field reflects a clear spatial quantum interference. Given the long-range supercurrents present in both single- and mixed-phase Mn3Ge, but absent in a collinear AFM IrMn16, our results pave a way for the topological generation of spin-polarized triplet pairs6,7,8 via Berry phase engineering15 of the chiral AFMs.



中文翻译:

通过横向约瑟夫森结中手性非共线反铁磁体的长程超电流

手性非共线反铁磁体 (AFM) 1,2,3,4,5与单重态超导体的邻近耦合允许将自旋非极化单重态库珀对转换为自旋极化三重态对6,7,8,从而启用非耗散、长程自旋相关9,10,11,12,13,14。这种转换的机制源自虚构的磁场,该磁场由具有非共线原子尺度自旋排列1,2,3,4,5 的AFM 中的非零贝瑞相15 产生。在这里,我们通过三角形手性 AFM Mn 3 Ge的外延薄膜报告了长程横向约瑟夫森超电流(参考文献3,4,5)。这种手性 AFM 中的约瑟夫森超电流衰减大约比单重态对相关9、10、11、12、13、14的预期慢一到两个数量级,并且它们对外部磁场的响应反映了明显的空间量子干涉. 鉴于在单相和混合相 Mn 3 Ge 中都存在长程超电流,但在共线 AFM IrMn 16中不存在,我们的结果为通过 Berry拓扑生成自旋极化三重态对6、7、8铺平了道路手性原子力显微镜的相位工程15

更新日期:2021-08-05
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