Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2010-09-14
Phys. Rev. B 82, 224504 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
7 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to Physical Review
Scientific paper
Motivated by a recent experiment [J. W. A. Robinson, J. D. S. Witt and M. G. Blamire, Science, \textbf{329}, 5987 (2010)], we here study the possibility of establishing a long-range spin-triplet supercurrent through an inhomogeneous ferromagnetic region consisting of a Ho$\mid$Co$\mid$Ho trilayer sandwiched between two conventional s-wave superconductors. We utilize a full numerical solution in the diffusive regime of transport and study the behavior of the supercurrent for various experimentally relevant configurations of the ferromagnetic trilayer. We obtain qualitatively very good agreement with experimental data regarding the behavior of the supercurrent as a function of the width of the Co-layer, $L_\text{Co}$. Moreover, we find a synthesis of 0-$\pi$ oscillations with superimposed rapid oscillations when varying the width of the Ho-layer which pertain specifically to the spiral magnetization texture in Ho. We are not able to reproduce the anomalous peaks in the supercurrent observed experimentally in this regime, but note that the results obtained are quite sensitive to the exact magnetization profile in the Ho-layers, which could be the reason for the discrepancy between our model and the experimental reported data for this particular aspect. We also investigate the supercurrent in a system where the intrinsically inhomogeneous Ho ferromagnets are replaced with domain-wall ferromagnets, and find similar behavior as in the Ho$\mid$Co$\mid$Ho case. Furthermore, we propose a novel type of magnetic Josephson junction including only a domain-wall ferromagnet and a homogeneous ferromagnetic layer, which in addition to simplicity regarding the magnetization profile also offers a tunable long-range spin-triplet supercurrent. Finally, we discuss some experimental aspects of our findings.
Alidoust Mohammad
Linder Jacob
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