Anomalous spin-triplet current in Ho/Co/Ho-based Josephson junctions

作者:Wen, Lin*; Jin, Li-Jing; Chen, Yu; Zha, Guo-Qiao; Zhou, Shi-Ping
来源:EPL, 2014, 105(2): 27007.
DOI:10.1209/0295-5075/105/27007

摘要

The supercurrent through a holmium/cobalt/holmium-based Josephson junction is investigated by using the extended the Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk (BTK) approach. It is found that the spiral magnetism of the Ho layer can induce both spin-split and spin-flip scatterings, which control the conversion between the spin-singlet and equal spin-triplet pairing correlations, generating a tunable long-range spin-triplet pair ordering. Spin-triplet current sharp peaks variations with the Ho layer thickness as well as a slow decay of the current amplitude with the Co layer thickness are revealed.