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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 120, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.247001
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/I031014/1, EP/J01060X, EP/J010634/1, EP/J010650/1, EP/L015110/1]
- EPSRC [EP/M000923/1, EP/I000933/1, EP/J010634/1, EP/I031014/1, EP/J010650/1, EP/R031924/1, EP/J01060X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We have observed the spatial distribution of magnetic flux in Nb, Cu/Nb, and Cu/Nb/Co thin films using muon-spin rotation. In an isolated 50-nm-thick Nb film, we find a weak flux expulsion (Meissner effect) which becomes significantly enhanced when adding an adjacent 40 nm layer of Cu. The added Cu layer exhibits a Meissner effect (due to induced superconducting pairs) and is at least as effective as the Nb to expel flux. These results are confirmed by theoretical calculations using the quasiclassical Green's function formalism. An unexpected further significant enhancement of the flux expulsion is observed when adding a thin (2.4 nm) ferromagnetic Co layer to the bottom side of the Nb. This observed cooperation between superconductivity and ferromagnetism, by an unknown mechanism, forms a key ingredient for developing superconducting spintronics.
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