Spin pumping in d-wave superconductor/ferromagnet hybrids
Abstract
Spin-pumping across ferromagnet/superconductor (F/S) interfaces has attracted much attention lately. Yet the focus has been mainly on s-wave superconductors-based systems whereas (high-temperature) d-wave superconductors such as YBa2Cu3O7-d (YBCO) have received scarce attention despite their fundamental and technological interest. Here we use wideband ferromagnetic resonance to study spin-pumping effects in bilayers that combine a soft metallic Ni80Fe20 (Py) ferromagnet and YBCO. We evaluate the spin conductance in YBCO by analyzing the magnetization dynamics in Py. We find that the Gilbert damping exhibits a drastic drop as the heterostructures are cooled across the normal-superconducting transition and then, depending on the S/F interface morphology, either stays constant or shows a strong upturn. This unique behavior is explained considering quasiparticle density of states at the YBCO surface, and is a direct consequence of zero-gap nodes for particular directions in the momentum space. Besides showing the fingerprint of d-wave superconductivity in spin-pumping, our results demonstrate the potential of high-temperature superconductors for fine tuning of the magnetization dynamics in ferromagnets using k-space degrees of freedom of d-wave/F interfaces.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2009.03196,
title = {Spin pumping in d-wave superconductor/ferromagnet hybrids},
author = {S. J. Carreira and D. Sanchez-Manzano and M. -W. Yoo and V. Rouco and A. Sander and J. Santamaría and A. Anane and J. E. Villegas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.03196},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
20 pages, 6 figures