Interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism in epitaxial Nb(110)/Au(111)/Co(0001) trilayers

Details Interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism in epitaxial Nb(110)/Au(111)/Co(0001) trilayers Interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism in epitaxial Nb(110)/Au(111)/Co(0001) trilayers

2010-03-05

arxiv.org/abs/1003.1181v1

Phys. Rev. B 81, 094503 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

23 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.81.094503

Epitaxially grown multilayer systems offer the possibility to study the influence of ferromagnetism on superconductivity in a new and controlled way. In this paper, we explore how the superconducting properties of high quality, epitaxially-grown superconductor/normal-metal/ferromagnet trilayers evolve as a function of the exchange splitting in the ferromagnet, and the thickness of the normal metal layer. We report results for Nb(110)/Au(111)/Co(0001), and make a detailed comparison with earlier results for Nb(110)/Au(111)/Fe(110). We use quantitative FFT analysis to confirm the existence of a long-period (2.1 nm) oscillation in the superconducting transition temperature Tc as a function of the Au-layer thickness tAu, for tAu>2 nm, and highlight an additional short-period (0.76 nm) oscillation for tAu<3 nm in Nb/Au/Co. This short-period oscillation can be explained in terms of a damped RKKY-like oscillation of the spin-polarization in Au. The robustness of the long-period oscillation against the substitution of Co for Fe suggests that it is intrinsic to the Au(111) layer on Nb, and may represent a new form of quantum interference in very clean trilayer systems.

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