Supercurrents through half-metallic ferromagnetic CrO$_2$ revisited

Details Supercurrents through half-metallic ferromagnetic CrO$_2$ revisited Supercurrents through half-metallic ferromagnetic CrO$_2$ revisited

2010-03-23

arxiv.org/abs/1003.4446v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

4 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

We report on the observation of a supercurrent through the half metallic ferromagnet CrO$_2$ grown on hexagonal Al$_2$O$_3$ (sapphire). The current was observed to flow over a distance of 700 nm between two superconducting amorphous Mo$_{70}$Ge$_{30}$ electrodes which were deposited on the CrO$_2$ film. The critical current $I_c$ increases as function of decreasing temperature. Upon applying an in-plane magnetic field, $I_c$ goes through a maximum at the rather high field of 80 mT. We believe this to be a long range proximity effect in the ferromagnet, carried by odd-frequency pairing correlations.

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