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Main Authors: Yang, Junyi, Liu, Changjiang, Zhou, Xianjing, Hou, Hanyu, Yin, Kaijun, Wen, Jianguo, Pearson, John, Suslov, Alexey, Jin, Dafei, Jiang, Jidong S., Welp, Ulrich, Zuo, Jian-Min, Norman, Michael R., Bhattacharya, Anand
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19599
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author Yang, Junyi
Liu, Changjiang
Zhou, Xianjing
Hou, Hanyu
Yin, Kaijun
Wen, Jianguo
Pearson, John
Suslov, Alexey
Jin, Dafei
Jiang, Jidong S.
Welp, Ulrich
Zuo, Jian-Min
Norman, Michael R.
Bhattacharya, Anand
author_facet Yang, Junyi
Liu, Changjiang
Zhou, Xianjing
Hou, Hanyu
Yin, Kaijun
Wen, Jianguo
Pearson, John
Suslov, Alexey
Jin, Dafei
Jiang, Jidong S.
Welp, Ulrich
Zuo, Jian-Min
Norman, Michael R.
Bhattacharya, Anand
contents Two-dimensional superconductors with spin-textured Fermi surfaces can be a platform for realizing unconventional pairing states and are of substantial interest in the context of quantum information science, and superconducting spintronics/orbitronics. We observed an unusual in-plane uniaxial anisotropy in the superconducting 2D electron gas (2DEG) formed at EuOx/KTaO3 (110) interfaces, where the EuOx is magnetic. This anisotropy is not evident in AlOx/KTaO3 (110) where the overlayer is non-magnetic. Our results are consistent with a highly anisotropic 'half-Rashba' spin-textured Fermi surface in 2DEGs formed at the KTaO3 (110) interface that is hidden from external magnetic fields due to a near cancellation between orbital and spin moments but revealed by exchange interactions of the electrons in the 2DEG with Eu moments near the EuOx/KTaO3 (110) interface. The interactions between the uniaxial spin texture and the magnetic overlayer offer new ways to explore the interplay between magnetism and 2D superconductivity.
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spellingShingle Uniaxial spin texture in a superconducting electron gas revealed by exchange interactions
Yang, Junyi
Liu, Changjiang
Zhou, Xianjing
Hou, Hanyu
Yin, Kaijun
Wen, Jianguo
Pearson, John
Suslov, Alexey
Jin, Dafei
Jiang, Jidong S.
Welp, Ulrich
Zuo, Jian-Min
Norman, Michael R.
Bhattacharya, Anand
Superconductivity
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Two-dimensional superconductors with spin-textured Fermi surfaces can be a platform for realizing unconventional pairing states and are of substantial interest in the context of quantum information science, and superconducting spintronics/orbitronics. We observed an unusual in-plane uniaxial anisotropy in the superconducting 2D electron gas (2DEG) formed at EuOx/KTaO3 (110) interfaces, where the EuOx is magnetic. This anisotropy is not evident in AlOx/KTaO3 (110) where the overlayer is non-magnetic. Our results are consistent with a highly anisotropic 'half-Rashba' spin-textured Fermi surface in 2DEGs formed at the KTaO3 (110) interface that is hidden from external magnetic fields due to a near cancellation between orbital and spin moments but revealed by exchange interactions of the electrons in the 2DEG with Eu moments near the EuOx/KTaO3 (110) interface. The interactions between the uniaxial spin texture and the magnetic overlayer offer new ways to explore the interplay between magnetism and 2D superconductivity.
title Uniaxial spin texture in a superconducting electron gas revealed by exchange interactions
topic Superconductivity
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19599