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Superconductivity-induced change in magnetic anisotropy in epitaxial ferromagnet-superconductor hybrids with spin-orbit interaction

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The interaction between superconductivity and ferromagnetism in thin film superconductor/ferromagnet heterostructures is usually reflected by a change in superconductivity of the S layer set by the magnetic state of the F layers. Here we report the converse effect: transformation of the magnetocrystalline anisotropy of a single Fe(001) layer, and thus its preferred magnetization orientation, driven by the superconductivity of an underlying V layer through a spin-orbit coupled MgO interface. We attribute this to an additional contribution to the free energy of the ferromagnet arising from the controlled generation of triplet Cooper pairs, which depends on the relative angle between the exchange field of the ferromagnet and the spin-orbit field. This is fundamentally different from the commonly observed magnetic domain modification by Meissner screening or domain wall-vortex interaction, and it offers the ability to fundamentally tune magnetic anisotropies using superconductivity—a key step in designing future cryogenic magnetic memories.
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hal-04370036 , version 1 (03-02-2024)

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César González-Ruano, Lina Johnsen, Diego Caso, Coriolan Tiusan, Michel Hehn, et al.. Superconductivity-induced change in magnetic anisotropy in epitaxial ferromagnet-superconductor hybrids with spin-orbit interaction. Physical Review B, 2020, 102 (2), pp.020405. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.102.020405⟩. ⟨hal-04370036⟩
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