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Published on: March 24, 2019
Uniaxial spin texture in a superconducting electron gas revealed by exchange interactions
Junyi Yang1, Changjiang Liu1,2, Xianjing Zhou3,4,5
1Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.
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Two-dimensional (2D) superconductors with spin-textured Fermi surfaces can be a platform for realizing unconventional pairing states and are of substantial interest in the context of quantum information science and superconducting spintronics/orbitronics. We observed an unusual in-plane uniaxial anisotropy in the superconducting 2D electron gas (2DEG) formed at EuOx/KTaO3 (110) interfaces. This anisotropy is not evident in AlOx/KTaO3 (110) where the overlayer is nonmagnetic. Our results are consistent with a highly anisotropic "half-Rashba" spin-textured Fermi surface in 2DEGs formed at the KTaO3 (110) interface that is hidden from external magnetic fields due to a near cancellation between orbital and spin moments but revealed by exchange interactions of the electrons in the 2DEG with Eu moments near the EuOx/KTaO3 (110) interface. The interactions between the uniaxial spin texture and the magnetic overlayer offer previously unexplored ways to explore the interplay between magnetism and 2D superconductivity.
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