Measurement of magnetic exchange in ferromagnet-superconductor La2/3Ca1/3MnO3/YBa2Cu3O7 Bilayers

Giblin, Sean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1876-8619, Taylor, J. W., Duffy, J. A., Butchers, M. W., Utfeld, C., Dugdale, S. B., Nakamura, T., Visani, C. and Santamaria, J. 2012. Measurement of magnetic exchange in ferromagnet-superconductor La2/3Ca1/3MnO3/YBa2Cu3O7 Bilayers. Physical Review Letters 109 (13) 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.137005

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Abstract

The existence of coherent magnetic correlations in the normal phase of cuprate high-temperature superconductors has proven difficult to measure directly. Here we report on a study of ferromagnetic-superconductor bilayers of La2/3Ca1/3MnO3/YBa2Cu3O7 (LCMO/YBCO) with varying YBCO layer thicknesses. Using x-ray magnetic circular dichroism, we demonstrate that the ferromagnetic layer induces a Cu magnetic moment in the adjacent high-temperature superconductor. For thin samples, this moment exists at all temperatures below the Curie temperature of the LCMO layer. However, for a YBCO layer thicker than 12 unit cells, the Cu moment is suppressed for temperatures above the superconducting transition, suggesting this to be a direct measurement of magnetic coherence in the normal state of a superconducting oxide.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Publisher:	American Physical Society
ISSN:	0031-9007
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 10:51
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/41525

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