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Anomalous anisotropic behaviour of spin-triplet proximity effect in Au/SrRuO3/Sr2RuO4 junctions.

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Kunieda, M 
Ishiguro, R 
Lee, SR 
Sow, C 

Abstract

Spin-polarized supercurrents can be generated with magnetic inhomogeneity at a ferromagnet/spin-singlet-superconductor interface. In such systems, complex magnetic inhomogeneity makes it difficult to functionalise the spin-polarized supercurrents. However, spin-polarized supercurrents in ferromagnet/spin-triplet-superconductor junctions can be controlled by the angle between magnetization and spin of Copper pairs (d-vector), that can effectively be utilized in developing of a field of research known as superconducting spintronics. Recently, we found induction of spin-triplet correlation into a ferromagnet SrRuO3 epitaxially deposited on a spin-triplet superconductor Sr2RuO4, without any electronic spin-flip scattering. Here, we present systematic magnetic field dependence of the proximity effect in Au/SrRuO3/Sr2RuO4 junctions. It is found that induced triplet correlations exhibit strongly anisotropic field response. Such behaviour is attributed to the rotation of the d-vector of Sr2RuO4. This anisotropic behaviour is in contrast with the vortex dynamic. Our results will stimulate study of interaction between ferromagnetism and unconventional superconductivity.

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cond-mat.supr-con, cond-mat.supr-con, cond-mat.mtrl-sci

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Journal ISSN

2045-2322
2045-2322

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9

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Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/P026311/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/N017242/1)
This work is supported by the JSPS KAKENHI projects Topological Quantum Phenomena (JP22103002 and JP25103721) and Topological Materials Science (JP15H05851, JP15K21717 and JP15H05852), JSPS KAKENHI 17H04848, as well as by JSPS-EPSRC core-to-core program ”Oxide- Superspin (OSS)” . MSA is supported as an International Research Fellow of the JSPS.