In this report, we have done a detailed investigation on temperature-dependent neutron diffraction patterns to reveal the existence of short-range magnetic ordering above Néel temperature, which persists at low temperature in cubic spinel Mn1.5Cr1.5O4. The inverse susceptibility curve starts to deviate from the Curie–Weiss law below T′ (∼170 K). The magnetic diffuse scattering around the (111) peak also shows a similar feature, which confirms the development of a short-range magnetic correlation below 170 K. This diffuse scattering shows a maximum at TN, 56 K, and then starts to normalize to the magnetic Bragg peaks below TN but never becomes zero. The magnetic frustration present in the system induces a liquid-like short-range ordering, which co-exists along with the long-range ordering in the ferrimagnetic state.

Magnetic exchange interactions in Mn3O4 spinel systems are complicated due to the presence of magnetic frustration between one tetrahedral and two octahedral sites, and the strongly correlated Jahn-Teller crystal distortion...

The large superconducting critical current (I c) in superconductors is an important property for applications, but unfortunately, it is easily suppressed in the presence of a magnetic field. The stronger the magnetic field the lower the I c is the common response of superconductors. In this paper, we discovered a phenomenon that the I c can be enhanced by a field-cooled process for the La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 (LSMO)/YBa2Cu3O7−δ (YBCO)/La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 (LSMO) trilayer system, in which the high-T c-superconductor/oxide-ferromagnetic interface plays a crucial role. Three major factors based on a singlet superconducting picture, such as the difference in the work functions, the orbital hybridization, and the magnetic coupling between the induced Cu and Mn moments at the interface, decide the charge transfer and the capability of carrying maximum current. These factors can be preset by a field-cooling process with various field-cooled fields at a temperature higher than the superconducting transition temperature, T c. While the system is field-cooled below T c, we found that the competition between these factors and the responses of the interface may enhance or suppress the properties of the superconducting layer and finally gives rise to a maximum I c at a specific field-cooled field. Moreover, we also observed that the I c increases with the increase of the applied magnetic field for the sample with a thinner YBCO layer, which cannot be explained by these mechanisms based on singlet superconductivity and strongly implies the possible existence of triplet superconducting pairs at the interface and inside a ferromagnetic (FM) layer.

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