Reports on Progress in Physics, volume 78, issue 10, pages 104501

Spin-polarized supercurrents for spintronics: a review of current progress

Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2015-09-23
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ISSN00344885, 13616633
General Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
During the past 15 years a new field has emerged, which combines superconductivity and spintronics, with the goal to pave a way for new types of devices for applications combining the virtues of both by offering the possibility of long-range spin-polarized supercurrents. Such supercurrents constitute a fruitful basis for the study of fundamental physics as they combine macroscopic quantum coherence with microscopic exchange interactions, spin selectivity, and spin transport. This report follows recent developments in the controlled creation of long-range equal-spin triplet supercurrents in ferromagnets and its contribution to spintronics. The mutual proximity-induced modification of order in superconductor-ferromagnet hybrid structures introduces in a natural way such evasive phenomena as triplet superconductivity, odd-frequency pairing, Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov pairing, long-range equal-spin supercurrents, [Formula: see text]-Josephson junctions, as well as long-range magnetic proximity effects. All these effects were rather exotic before 2000, when improvements in nanofabrication and materials control allowed for a new quality of hybrid structures. Guided by pioneering theoretical studies, experimental progress evolved rapidly, and since 2010 triplet supercurrents are routinely produced and observed. We have entered a new stage of studying new phases of matter previously out of our reach, and of merging the hitherto disparate fields of superconductivity and spintronics to a new research direction: super-spintronics.

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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1088/0034-4885/78/10/104501
UR - https://doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/78/10/104501
TI - Spin-polarized supercurrents for spintronics: a review of current progress
T2 - Reports on Progress in Physics
AU - Eschrig, M.
PY - 2015
DA - 2015/09/23
PB - IOP Publishing
SP - 104501
IS - 10
VL - 78
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@article{2015_Eschrig,
author = {M. Eschrig},
title = {Spin-polarized supercurrents for spintronics: a review of current progress},
journal = {Reports on Progress in Physics},
year = {2015},
volume = {78},
publisher = {IOP Publishing},
month = {sep},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/78/10/104501},
number = {10},
pages = {104501},
doi = {10.1088/0034-4885/78/10/104501}
}
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Eschrig, M.. “Spin-polarized supercurrents for spintronics: a review of current progress.” Reports on Progress in Physics, vol. 78, no. 10, Sep. 2015, p. 104501. https://doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/78/10/104501.
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