Abstract
The comment by Lin He proposes that at the interface between holmium and cobalt an interesting magnetic proximity effect occurs in which the spiral magnetic wavelength ( λ ) of holmium is enhanced to 5.4 nm. Consequently, the optimum holmium layer thickness for the superconductor spin triplet proximity effect to occur in Nb/Ho/Co/Ho/Nb Josephson junctions of ≈4.5 and ≈10 nm would then correspond to the presence of ≈ λ / 2 and ≈ 3 λ / 2 spiral wavelengths. Although intriguing, this idea seems to be at odds with the conventional micromagnetics of either thin film (polycrystalline) holmium or single-crystal Ho at low temperatures (10 K). Although an increase in λ in Ho/metal multilayer thin films with epitaxially matched interfaces has been reported, the possibility of such an effect in a polycrystalline system seems unlikely.
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