Percolative supercurrent in superconductor-ferromagnetic insulator bilayersShow others and affiliations
2025 (English)In: Physical Review B, ISSN 2469-9950, E-ISSN 2469-9969, Vol. 111, no 17, article id 174509Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We report tunneling spectroscopy and transport measurements in superconducting Al and ferromagnetic insulator EuS bilayers. The samples display remanent spin splitting, roughly half the superconducting gap, and supercurrent transport above the average paramagnetic limit. We interpret this behavior as arising from the interplay between two characteristic length scales: the superconducting coherence length ζ and the magnetic domain size d. By comparing experimental results to a theoretical model, we find ζ/d≈10. In this regime, spin averaging across the micromagnetic configuration can locally suppress superconductivity, resulting in percolative supercurrent flow.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
American Physical Society (APS) , 2025. Vol. 111, no 17, article id 174509
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Condensed Matter Physics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-363790DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.111.174509ISI: 001492084100002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105004854556OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-363790DiVA, id: diva2:1959886
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QC 20250602
2025-05-212025-05-212026-02-20Bibliographically approved