Field-induced spin mixing in ultrathin superconducting Al and Be films in high parallel magnetic fields

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2003-12-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312649v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

to appear in PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.067003

We report spin-dependent electron density of states (DOS) studies of ultra-thin superconducting Al and Be films in high parallel magnetic fields. Superconductor-insulator-superconductor (SIS) tunneling spectra are presented in which both the film and the counterelectrode are in the paramagnetic limit. This SIS configuration is exquisitely sensitive to spin mixing and/or spin flip processes which are manifest as DOS singularities at eV = 2Delta +- eV_z. Both our Al and Be data show a well defined subgap peak whose magnitude grows dramatically as the parallel critical field is approached. Though this feature has previously been attributed to spin-orbit scattering, it is more consistent with fluctuations into a field induced mixed-spin state.

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