Critical current of a Josephson junction containing a conical magnet

Details Critical current of a Josephson junction containing a conical magnet Critical current of a Josephson junction containing a conical magnet

2009-01-14

arxiv.org/abs/0901.2024v2

Phys. Rev. B 79, 224505 (2009) [9 pages]

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

Extended version of the published paper. Additional information about the computational method is included in the appendix

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.79.224505

We calculate the critical current of a superconductor/ferromagnetic/superconductor (S/FM/S) Josephson junction in which the FM layer has a conical magnetic structure composed of an in-plane rotating antiferromagnetic phase and an out-of-plane ferromagnetic component. In view of the realistic electronic properties and magnetic structures that can be formed when conical magnets such as Ho are grown with a polycrystalline structure in thin-film form by methods such as direct current sputtering and evaporation, we have modeled this situation in the dirty limit with a large magnetic coherence length ($\xi_f$). This means that the electron mean free path is much smaller than the normalized spiral length $\lambda/2\pi$ which in turn is much smaller than $\xi_f$ (with $\lambda$ as the length a complete spiral makes along the growth direction of the FM). In this physically reasonable limit we have employed the linearized Usadel equations: we find that the triplet correlations are short ranged and manifested in the critical current as a rapid oscillation on the scale of $\lambda/2\pi$. These rapid oscillations in the critical current are superimposed on a slower oscillation which is related to the singlet correlations. Both oscillations decay on the scale of $\xi_f$. We derive an analytical solution and also describe a computational method for obtaining the critical current as a function of the conical magnetic layer thickness.

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