Magnetic exchange interaction in spin-valve with chiral spin-triplet superconductor

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Main Authors: Romano, Alfonso, Noce, Canio, Cuoco, Mario
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Published: 2024
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author Romano, Alfonso
Noce, Canio
Cuoco, Mario
author_facet Romano, Alfonso
Noce, Canio
Cuoco, Mario
contents The coupling between two ferromagnets separated by a superconductor has been mostly investigated for the case of Cooper pairs with spin-singlet symmetry. Here, we consider a spin-triplet superconductor with chiral pairing. By full self-consistent analysis of the spatial dependent superconducting order parameter, we determine the magnetic ground state of the superconducting spin valve. The study is performed by investigating the role of the orientation and strength of the magnetization in the ferromagnets including spin-valve asymmetries in the magnetic configurations. Due to the nonvanishing angular momentum of the spin-triplet Cooper pairs we demonstrate that the induced magnetic coupling has an anisotropic character and a structure that can favor collinear or noncollinear magnetic orientations, thus mimicking a magnetic interaction of the Heisenberg or Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya type, respectively. We investigate the role of the physical parameters controlling the character of the magnetic exchange: the amplitude of the magnetization in the ferromagnets and the length of the superconducting spacer in the spin valve. Our study demonstrates that spin-triplet superconductors can be employed to devise anisotropic magnetic exchange and to allow for transitions in the spin-valve state from a collinear to noncollinear magnetic configuration.
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spellingShingle Magnetic exchange interaction in spin-valve with chiral spin-triplet superconductor
Romano, Alfonso
Noce, Canio
Cuoco, Mario
Superconductivity
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
The coupling between two ferromagnets separated by a superconductor has been mostly investigated for the case of Cooper pairs with spin-singlet symmetry. Here, we consider a spin-triplet superconductor with chiral pairing. By full self-consistent analysis of the spatial dependent superconducting order parameter, we determine the magnetic ground state of the superconducting spin valve. The study is performed by investigating the role of the orientation and strength of the magnetization in the ferromagnets including spin-valve asymmetries in the magnetic configurations. Due to the nonvanishing angular momentum of the spin-triplet Cooper pairs we demonstrate that the induced magnetic coupling has an anisotropic character and a structure that can favor collinear or noncollinear magnetic orientations, thus mimicking a magnetic interaction of the Heisenberg or Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya type, respectively. We investigate the role of the physical parameters controlling the character of the magnetic exchange: the amplitude of the magnetization in the ferromagnets and the length of the superconducting spacer in the spin valve. Our study demonstrates that spin-triplet superconductors can be employed to devise anisotropic magnetic exchange and to allow for transitions in the spin-valve state from a collinear to noncollinear magnetic configuration.
title Magnetic exchange interaction in spin-valve with chiral spin-triplet superconductor
topic Superconductivity
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09812