Distinguished Visiting Professor’s Public Talk - Enhancing Spintronics with Superconductivity and Emergent Magnetic State

ABSTRACT

Superconducting spintronics1-3 has emerged over the past decade and half as a field combining magnetism, superconductivity, and quantum coherence. This area holds promise for computing architectures that go beyond low-power analogues of conventional spintronics, harnessing superconductivity to couple electron charge and spin for alogic and memory applications. While many concepts remain theoretical or in early experimental stages4-8, my research group is working to define a framework for energy-efficient, large-scale computing systems that transcend the limitations of silicon technologies. This lecture will explore the progress, challenges, and future directions of superconducting spintronics, highlighting its potential to reshape the landscape of computing.

1. J Linder and JWA Robinson*, Superconducting Spintronics, Nature Physics 11, 307 (2015).
2. M Amundsen, J Linder, JWA Robinson*, I Žutić, N Banerjee, Spin-orbit effects in superconducting hybrid structures, Colloquium: Reviews of Modern Physics 96, 021003 (2024).
3. G Yang, C Ciccarelli, JWA Robinson, Boosting spintronics with superconductivity, APL Materials 9, 050703 (2021).
4. K-R Jeon, X Montiel, C Ciccarelli, H Kurebayashi, L Cohen, S Komori, M Blamire, JWA Robinson, Physical Review X 10, 031020 (2020).
5. A Bernardo, S Komori, G Livanas, G Divitini, P Gentile, M Cuoco, JWA Robinson, Nature Materials 18, 1194–1200 (2019)
6. S Komori, J Devine-Stoneman, K Ohnishi, G Yang, Z Devizorova, S Mironov, X Montiel, LAB Olde Olthof, LF Cohen, H Kurebayashi, MG Blamire, AI Buzdin, JWA Robinson, Science Advances 7, eabe0128 (2021).
7. H Narita, J Ishizuka, R Kawarazaki, D Kan, Y Shiota, T Moriyama, Y Shimakawa, A Ognev, A Samardak, Y Yanase, T Ono, Nature Nanotechnology 17, 823–828 (2022).
8. A Gutfreund, H Matsuki, V Plastovets, A Noah, L Gorzawski, N Fridman, G Yang, A Buzdin, O Millo, JWA Robinson, Yonathan Anahory*, Nature Communications 14, 1630 (2023).

BIOGRAPHY

Jason Robinson has a Professorial Chair in Materials Physics at the University of Cambridge where he is a Head of the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Director of the Quantum Materials & Devices Group, and co-director of the Centre for Materials Physics. His experimental research focuses on the development of quantum materials and devices, approaching key problems in the fields of spintronics, superconductivity, and quantum technologies. He has made major contributions to these fields, including the discovery of triplet Cooper pairs in hybrid superconductor/magnetic devices and pioneering the field of superconducting spintronics.

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