Influence of Superconductivity on Interlayer Magnetic Exchange Coupling

The future of science and technology lies in the quantum properties of matter, with fields such as condensed matter physics having already produced innovation like nanotechnology and quantum computation. Superconductivity, the property of some materials to show no electrical resistance at extremely low temperatures, and magnetic exchange coupling, the interaction of ferromagnetic materials over space, have in past research shown tendencies to interact with one another in interesting ways. Should that relationship be better understood, it would enable us to utilize them to improve practical applications of technologies such as maglev trains. Our project investigated these dual phenomena, asking how the two are related, so that we might gain a better understanding to how and why they interact, possibly yielding insight to future applications of their relationship.

• Physics