Superconducting Spin Valve in the Solitary Superconductivity Regime
摘要
Superconducting spin valve heterostructures of the F1/F2/S design, consisting of superconducting (S) and ferromagnetic (F) layers, have been studied in order to detect the theoretically predicted state of solitary superconductivity. This state is characterized by the occurrence of superconductivity only at the antiparallel magnetizations of the ferromagnetic layers. In this work, owing to optimally selected design parameters of the superconducting spin valve, the state of solitary superconductivity has been experimentally realized for the first time. An anomalously large spin valve effect