Manipulation of Cooper-Pair Tunneling via Domain Structure in a van der Waals Ferromagnetic Josephson Junction

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Veröffentlicht in:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 36(2024), 33 vom: 17. Aug., Seite e2314190
1. Verfasser: Huang, Junwei (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Li, Zeya, Bi, Xiangyu, Tang, Ming, Qiu, Caiyu, Qin, Feng, Yuan, Hongtao
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2024
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Schlagworte:Journal Article 2D materials Ising pairing Josephson current ferromagnetic Josephson junction magnetic domain
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Zusammenfassung:© 2024 Wiley‐VCH GmbH.
Ferromagnetic Josephson junctions play a key role in understanding the interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism in condensed matter physics. The magnetic domain structures of the ferromagnet in such junctions can significantly affect the tunneling of the superconducting Cooper pairs due to the strong interactions between Cooper pairs and local magnetic moments in the ferromagnetic tunnel barrier. However, the underlying microscopic mechanism of relevant quasiparticle tunneling processes with magnetic domain structures remains largely unexplored. Here, the manipulation of Cooper-pair tunneling in the NbSe2/Cr2Ge2Te6/NbSe2 ferromagnetic Josephson junction is demonstrated by using a multidomain ferromagnetic barrier with anisotropic magnetic moments. The evolution of up-, down-magnetized domain and Bloch domain structures in Cr2Ge2Te6 barrier under external magnetic fields leads to the enhancement of the critical tunneling supercurrent and an unconventional dual-peak feature with two local maxima in the field-dependent critical current curve. The phenomenon of magnetic-field-modulated critical tunneling supercurrent can be well explained by the competition between the coherence length of tunneling Cooper pairs and the size of magnetic domain walls in Cr2Ge2Te6 barrier. This kind of ferromagnetic Josephson junction provides an intriguing material system for manipulating Cooper-pair tunneling by tuning the local magnetic moments within magnetic Josephson junction devices
Beschreibung:Date Revised 15.08.2024
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1521-4095
DOI:10.1002/adma.202314190