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Nanoscale magnetic Josephson junctions and superconductor/ferromagnet proximity effects for low-power spintronics

Competition between superconducting and ferromagnetic ordering at interfaces between ferromagnets (F) and superconductors (S) gives rise to several proximity effects such as odd-triplet superconductivity and spin-polarized supercurrents. A prominent example of an S/F proximity effect is the spin switch effect observed in S/F/N/F superconducting spin valve multilayers, in which the superconducting transition temperature T c is controlled by the angle Φ between the magnetic moments of the F layers separated by a nonmagnetic metallic spacer N. We carried out an experimental study of spin switch effect in Nb/Co/Cu/Co/CoO x nanowires measured as a function of bias current flowing in the plane of the layers. These measurements reveal an unexpected dependence of T c (Φ) on the bias current: T c (Φ) – T c (0) changes sign with increasing current bias. We attribute the origin of this bias dependence of the spin switch effect to a spin Hall current originating in Nb and flowing perpendicular to the plane of the multilayer, which suppresses T c of the multilayer. The bias dependence of spin switch effect can be important for hybrid F/S devices such as cryogenic memory for superconducting computers when device dimensions are scaled down to the nanometer length scale.

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