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Long-range supercurrents through a chiral non-collinear antiferromagnet in lateral Josephson junctions.

ABSTRACT: The proximity-coupling of a chiral non-collinear antiferromagnet (AFM)^1-5 with a singlet superconductor allows spin-unpolarized singlet Cooper pairs to be converted into spin-polarized triplet pairs^6-8, thereby enabling non-dissipative, long-range spin correlations^9-14. The mechanism of this conversion derives from fictitious magnetic fields that are created by a non-zero Berry phase¹⁵ in AFMs with non-collinear atomic-scale spin arrangements^1-5. Here we report long-ranged lateral Josephson supercurrents through an epitaxial thin film of the triangular chiral AFM Mn₃Ge (refs. ^3-5). The Josephson supercurrents in this chiral AFM decay by approximately one to two orders of magnitude slower than would be expected for singlet pair correlations^9-14 and their response to an external magnetic field reflects a clear spatial quantum interference. Given the long-range supercurrents present in both single- and mixed-phase Mn₃Ge, but absent in a collinear AFM IrMn¹⁶, our results pave a way for the topological generation of spin-polarized triplet pairs^6-8 via Berry phase engineering¹⁵ of the chiral AFMs.

SUBMITTER: Jeon KR

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8463295 | biostudies-literature |

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