Half-integer Shapiro steps at the 0-pi crossover of a ferromagnetic Josephson junction

Details Half-integer Shapiro steps at the 0-pi crossover of a ferromagnetic Josephson junction Half-integer Shapiro steps at the 0-pi crossover of a ferromagnetic Josephson junction

2004-06-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0406236v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 257005 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

4 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.257005

We investigate the current-phase relation of S/F/S junctions near the crossover between the 0 and the pi ground states. We use Nb/CuNi/Nb junctions where this crossover is driven both by thickness and temperature. For a certain thickness a non-zero minimum of critical current is observed at the crossover temperature. We analyze this residual supercurrent by applying a high frequency excitation and observe the formation of half-integer Shapiro steps. We attribute these fractional steps to a doubling of the Josephson frequency due to a sin(2*phi) current-phase relation. This phase dependence is explained by the splitting of the energy levels in the ferromagnetic exchange field.

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