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Singlet and triplet Cooper pair splitting in hybrid superconducting nanowires
- Source :
- Nature 612, 448-453 (2022)
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- In most naturally occurring superconductors, electrons with opposite spins are paired up to form Cooper pairs. This includes both conventional $s$-wave superconductors such as aluminum as well as high-$T_\text{c}$, $d$-wave superconductors. Materials with intrinsic $p$-wave superconductivity, hosting Cooper pairs made of equal-spin electrons, have not been conclusively identified, nor synthesized, despite promising progress. Instead, engineered platforms where $s$-wave superconductors are brought into contact with magnetic materials have shown convincing signatures of equal-spin pairing. Here, we directly measure equal-spin pairing between spin-polarized quantum dots. This pairing is proximity-induced from an $s$-wave superconductor into a semiconducting nanowire with strong spin-orbit interaction. We demonstrate such pairing by showing that breaking a Cooper pair can result in two electrons with equal spin polarization. Our results demonstrate controllable detection of singlet and triplet pairing between the quantum dots. Achieving such triplet pairing in a sequence of quantum dots will be required for realizing an artificial Kitaev chain.<br />Comment: Authors' version of the accepted manuscript
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- Nature 612, 448-453 (2022)
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2205.03458
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05352-2