| Start Date: | 11/7/2013 | Start Time: | 3:30 PM |
| End Date: | 11/7/2013 | End Time: | 4:30 PM |
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Event Description
Norman Birge, PhD, professor, Michigan State University
Abstract: Physicists are constantly on the lookout for new symmetries in the ground states of quantum systems. Familiar examples include ferromagnets, which break spin-rotation symmetry, and superconductors, which break gauge symmetry. When a superconductor (S) and a ferromagnet (F) are put into contact with each other, interesting things happen, and the combined S/F hybrid system exhibits altogether new properties. There is a proximity effect where electron pair correlations from S penetrate into F, but this proximity effect decays over a very short distance due to the large energy splitting between the spin-up and spin-down electrons. Theory predicts that, under certain conditions, electron pair correlations will appear with spin-triplet rather than spin-singlet symmetry. The two electrons in such a spin-triplet pair have parallel spins and are not energy split in F; hence they propagate long distances. Furthermore, these triplet correlations satisfy the Pauli Exclusion Principle in a new and strange way: they are odd in frequency or time. In this talk I will discuss our observation of these pair correlations in experiments with S/F/S Josephson junctions. At the end of the talk, he will discuss future prospects for using such junctions as elements in a superconducting memory. |
Contact Information:
Name: Goran Karapetrov, PhD
Phone: (215) 571-4090
Email: goran@drexel.edu |
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Location:
Disque Hall 919, S. 32nd Street and Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 |
Audience:
Current StudentsFaculty |
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