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优化晶界结nanoSQUIDs的自旋灵敏度--以单自旋分辨率探测小自旋系统

Optimizing the spin sensitivity of grain boundary junction nanoSQUIDs -- towards detection of small spin systems with single-spin resolution

Roman Wölbing, Tobias Schwarz, Benedikt Müller, Joachim Nagel, Matthias Kemmler, Reinhold Kleiner, Dieter Koelle

摘要:

我们提出了一个优化研究的自旋灵敏度的nanoSQUID的基础上,反向分流晶界约瑟夫森结。此外,dc SQUID包含一个狭窄的收缩,小的磁性粒子可以放置在该收缩上(其磁矩在SQUID环的平面内并垂直于晶界),以有效地将其杂散磁场耦合到SQUID环。最佳耦合位置与结的分离允许耦合因子$ϕ_μ$和结性质的独立优化。我们提出了不同的方法来计算$ϕ_μ$(放置在10 nm以上的收缩的磁性纳米粒子)作为一个功能的设备的几何形状,并表明,这些产生一致的结果。此外,通过数值模拟,我们得到的SQUID电感对我们的设备的几何参数的依赖性的一般表达式,这允许估计它们的影响的磁通噪声$S_Φ$的SQUID在热白噪声制度的频谱密度。我们的分析$S_Φ$和$ϕ_μ$的SQUID布局的几何参数的依赖性产生几个$μ_{\rm{B}}/\rm{Hz^{1/2}}$($μ_B$是玻尔磁子)优化参数的自旋灵敏度$S_μ^{1/2}=S_Φ^{1/2}/ϕ_μ$,尊重技术约束。然而,通过与实验实现的设备相比,我们发现显着更大的值为测得的白通量噪声相比,我们的理论预测。尽管如此,对于优化的器件,$10\,μ_{\rm B}/\rm{Hz^{1/2}}$量级的自旋灵敏度似乎是现实的。

英文摘要:

We present an optimization study of the spin sensitivity of nanoSQUIDs based on resistively shunted grain boundary Josephson junctions. In addition the dc SQUIDs contain a narrow constriction onto which a small magnetic particle can be placed (with its magnetic moment in the plane of the SQUID loop and perpendicular to the grain boundary) for efficient coupling of its stray magnetic field to the SQUID loop. The separation of the location of optimum coupling from the junctions allows for an independent optimization of the coupling factor $ϕ_μ$ and junction properties. We present different methods for calculating $ϕ_μ$ (for a magnetic nanoparticle placed 10\,nm above the constriction) as a function of device geometry and show that those yield consistent results. Furthermore, by numerical simulations we obtain a general expression for the dependence of the SQUID inductance on geometrical parameters of our devices, which allows to estimate their impact on the spectral density of flux noise $S_Φ$ of the SQUIDs in the thermal white noise regime. Our analysis of the dependence of $S_Φ$ and $ϕ_μ$ on the geometric parameters of the SQUID layout yields a spin sensitivity $S_μ^{1/2}=S_Φ^{1/2}/ϕ_μ$ of a few $μ_{\rm{B}}/\rm{Hz^{1/2}}$ ($μ_B$ is the Bohr magneton) for optimized parameters, respecting technological constraints. However, by comparison with experimentally realized devices we find significantly larger values for the measured white flux noise, as compared to our theoretical predictions. Still, a spin sensitivity on the order of $10\,μ_{\rm B}/\rm{Hz^{1/2}}$ for optimized devices seems to be realistic.

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