Rashba spin-orbit coupling enhanced magnetoresistance in junctions with one ferromagnet

Abstract

We explain how Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG), or in a conventional $s$-wave superconductor, can lead to a large magnetoresistance even with one ferromagnet. However, such enhanced magnetoresistance is not generic and can be nonmonotonic and change its sign with Rashba SOC. For an in-plane rotation of magnetization, it is typically negligibly small for a 2DEG and depends on the perfect transmission which emerges from a spin-parity-time symmetry of the scattering states, while this symmetry is generally absent from the Hamiltonian of the system. The key difference from considering the normal-state magnetoresistance is the presence of the spin-dependent Andreev reflection at superconducting interfaces. In the fabricated junctions of quasi-2D van der Waals ferromagnets with conventional $s$-wave superconductors (Fe${}_{0.29}$TaS${}_2$/NbN) we find another example of enhanced magnetoresistance where the presence of Rashba SOC reduces the effective interfacial strength and is responsible for an equal-spin Andreev reflection. The observed nonmonotonic trend in the out-of-plane magnetoresistance with the interfacial barrier is an evidence for the proximity-induced equal-spin-triplet superconductivity.

arXiv commentThis work is submitted to the special issue of Phys. Rev. B dedicated to Professor Emmanuel Rashba

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