We study the interplay of superconductivity, ferromagnetism, and the Kondo effect in a single system, using vertical geometry and planar magnetic tunnel junction devices, in which a thin CoFe layer is inserted in the middle of the MgO layer, forming a quantum dot like system. It is shown that the Kondo resonance peak at the zero bias coexists with a sharp Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer gap on double tunnel junctions, Al/MgO/CoFe nanodot/MgO/Al. It is also found that the competition between superconductivity and the Kondo effect is tunable with magnetic fields and the temperature. The coexistence of Kondo screening and superconductivity survives long range magnetic order in CoFe nanodots with a spin polarization of 0.2; however, it disappears when the CoFe layer becomes a continuous film with a spin polarization of 0.5. The competition between SC and the Kondo effect in the presence of magnetic ordering opens exciting possibilities to control information in nanomagnets.
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12 April 2021
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April 15 2021
Interplay between superconductivity and the Kondo effect on magnetic nanodots
Special Collection:
Mesoscopic Magnetic Systems: From Fundamental Properties to Devices
Hyunsoo Yang
;
Hyunsoo Yang
a)
1
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore
, 117576 Singapore
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Mahn-Soo Choi
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Mahn-Soo Choi
2
Department of Physics, Korea University
, Seoul 02841, South Korea
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Grzegorz Ilnicki;
Grzegorz Ilnicki
3
Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
, Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznan, Poland
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Jan Martinek
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Jan Martinek
3
Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
, Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznan, Poland
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See-Hun Yang
;
See-Hun Yang
4
Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
, Weinberg 2, 06120 Halle, Germany
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Stuart Parkin
Stuart Parkin
a)
4
Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
, Weinberg 2, 06120 Halle, Germany
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a)Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed: eleyang@nus.edu.sg and stuart.parkin@mpi-halle.mpg.de
Note: This paper is part of the APL Special Collection on Mesoscopic Magnetic Systems: From Fundamental Properties to Devices.
Appl. Phys. Lett. 118, 152407 (2021)
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Received:
February 01 2021
Accepted:
March 26 2021
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Hyunsoo Yang, Mahn-Soo Choi, Grzegorz Ilnicki, Jan Martinek, See-Hun Yang, Stuart Parkin; Interplay between superconductivity and the Kondo effect on magnetic nanodots. Appl. Phys. Lett. 12 April 2021; 118 (15): 152407. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0046108
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