Giant shot noise in superconductor/ferromagnet junctions with orbital-symmetry-controlled spin-orbit coupling

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Autori principali: González-Ruano, César, Shen, Chenghao, Tuero, Pablo, Tiusan, Coriolan, Lu, Yuan, Han, Jong E., Žutić, Igor, Aliev, Farkhad G.
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author González-Ruano, César
Shen, Chenghao
Tuero, Pablo
Tiusan, Coriolan
Lu, Yuan
Han, Jong E.
Žutić, Igor
Aliev, Farkhad G.
author_facet González-Ruano, César
Shen, Chenghao
Tuero, Pablo
Tiusan, Coriolan
Lu, Yuan
Han, Jong E.
Žutić, Igor
Aliev, Farkhad G.
contents By measuring the shot noise, a consequence of charge quantization, in superconductor/insulator/ferromagnet (V/MgO/Fe) junctions, we discover a giant increase, orders of magnitude larger than expected. The origin of this giant noise is a peculiar realization of a superconducting proximity effect, where a simple superconductor influences its neighbors. Our measurements reveal largely unexplored implications of orbital-symmetry-controlled proximity effects. The importance of orbital symmetries and the accompanying spin-orbit coupling is manifested by an unexpected emergence of another superconducting region strikingly different from the parent superconductor. Unlike vanadium's common spin-singlet superconductivity, the broken inversion symmetry in V/MgO/Fe junctions and the resulting interfacial spin-orbit coupling leads to the formation of spin-triplet superconductivity across the ferromagnetic iron. Here we show that the enhanced shot noise, known from Josephson junctions with two superconductors, is measured even in a single superconductor, this discovery motivates revisiting how the spin-orbit coupling and superconducting proximity effects can transform many materials.
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spellingShingle Giant shot noise in superconductor/ferromagnet junctions with orbital-symmetry-controlled spin-orbit coupling
González-Ruano, César
Shen, Chenghao
Tuero, Pablo
Tiusan, Coriolan
Lu, Yuan
Han, Jong E.
Žutić, Igor
Aliev, Farkhad G.
Superconductivity
Quantum Physics
By measuring the shot noise, a consequence of charge quantization, in superconductor/insulator/ferromagnet (V/MgO/Fe) junctions, we discover a giant increase, orders of magnitude larger than expected. The origin of this giant noise is a peculiar realization of a superconducting proximity effect, where a simple superconductor influences its neighbors. Our measurements reveal largely unexplored implications of orbital-symmetry-controlled proximity effects. The importance of orbital symmetries and the accompanying spin-orbit coupling is manifested by an unexpected emergence of another superconducting region strikingly different from the parent superconductor. Unlike vanadium's common spin-singlet superconductivity, the broken inversion symmetry in V/MgO/Fe junctions and the resulting interfacial spin-orbit coupling leads to the formation of spin-triplet superconductivity across the ferromagnetic iron. Here we show that the enhanced shot noise, known from Josephson junctions with two superconductors, is measured even in a single superconductor, this discovery motivates revisiting how the spin-orbit coupling and superconducting proximity effects can transform many materials.
title Giant shot noise in superconductor/ferromagnet junctions with orbital-symmetry-controlled spin-orbit coupling
topic Superconductivity
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15983