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We study the influence of Born impurity scattering on the zero-energy Andreev bound states near the surface of a d-wave superconductor with and without an externally applied magnetic field. Without an external magnetic field we show that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-09-27 A. Zare , A. Markowsky , T. Dahm , N. Schopohl

We study the effect of strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on bound states induced by impurities in superconductors. The presence of spin-orbit coupling breaks the $\mathbb{SU}(2)$-spin symmetry and causes the superconducting order parameter…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-15 Younghyun Kim , Junhua Zhang , E. Rossi , Roman M. Lutchyn

Spin superconductor (SSC) is an exciton condensate state where the spin-triplet exciton superfluidity is charge neutral while spin $2(\hbar/2)$. In analogy to the Majorana zero mode (MZM) in topological superconductors, the interplay…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-15 Yijia Wu , Jie Liu , Hua Jiang , Hua Chen , Haiwen Liu , X. C. Xie

Mixing of spin singlet and spin triplet superconducting pairing state is expected in noncentrosymmetric superconductors (NCS) due to the inherent presence of Rashba-type antisymmetric spin-orbit coupling. Unlike low symmetry (tetragonal or…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-23 Bhanu Joshi , A. Thamizhavel , S. Ramakrishnan

We experimentally investigate the magnetic field dependence of Andreev transport through a region of proximity-induced superconductivity in CoSi topological chiral semimetal. With increasing parallel to the CoSi surface magnetic field, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 V. D. Esin , Yu. S. Barash , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

We investigate theoretically how the proximity effect in superconductor/ferromagnet hybrid structures with intrinsic spin-orbit coupling manifests in the density of states and critical temperature. To describe a general scenario, we allow…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-08-04 Sol H. Jacobsen , Jabir Ali Ouassou , Jacob Linder

Superconductivity, a state in which electrical currents can flow without resistance, occurs because of pairing of electrons into quasiparticles with integer spin $S$. In practically all known superconducting materials, these pairs form a…

Spin-orbit interaction accounts for the coupling of momentum and spin degrees of freedom of electrons and holes in semiconductor materials. In quantum information processing, it allows for electrical control of spin states and for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 M. P. Hynes , D. Burke , K. Ganesh , A. Vekris , B. J. Villis , J. C. Gartside , T. Kanne , J. Nygård , K. Moors , W. R. Branford , M. R. Connolly , M. R. Buitelaar

Two topics of high current interest in the field of unconventional superconductivity are non-centrosymmetric superconductors and multiband superconductivity. Half-Heusler superconductors such as YPtBi exemplify both. In this paper, we study…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-27 C. Timm , A. P. Schnyder , D. F. Agterberg , P. M. R. Brydon

We study Andreev reflection and Andreev levels $\varepsilon$ in Zeeman-split superconductor/Rashba wire/Zeeman-split superconductor junctions by solving the Bogoliubov de-Gennes equation. We theoretically demonstrate that the Andreev levels…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-11 Tatsuki Hashimoto , Alexander A. Golubov , Yukio Tanaka , Jacob Linder

Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowires with Rashba spin-orbit coupling are arguably becoming the leading platform for the search of Majorana bound states (MBSs) in engineered topological superconductors. We perform a systematic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-04 Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Elsa Prada , Ramón Aguado

We study the physical properties of a half-metallic ferromagnet$\mid$superconductor (HM$\mid$S) bilayer, allowing for an arbitrary bulk pairing symmetry of the superconductor and spin-dependent processes at the interface. In particular, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 Jacob Linder , Mario Cuoco , Asle Sudbø

We study the spin transport theoretically in heterostructures consisting of a ferromagnetic metallic thin film sandwiched between heavy-metal and oxide layers. The spin current in the heavy metal layer is generated via the spin Hall effect,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , X. -G. Wang , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , J. Berakdar

In materials without an inversion center of symmetry the spin degeneracy of the conducting band is lifted by an antisymmetric spin orbit coupling (ASOC). Under such circumstances, spin and parity cannot be separately used to classify the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 P. A. Frigeri , D. F. Agterberg , I. Milat , M. Sigrist

We consider the effect of spin-orbit coupling on the low energy excitation spectrum of an Andreev billiard (a quantum dot weakly coupled to a superconductor), using a dynamical numerical model (the spin Andreev map). Three effects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Béri , J. H. Bardarson , C. W. J. Beenakker

We theoretically demonstrate that the vortex supercurrent can be reversed by odd-frequency Cooper pairs accompanied by surface Andreev bound states. The surface of a three-dimensional superconductor pierced by a flux quantum is considered.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-13 Soma Yoshida , Shu-Ichiro Suzuki , Yukio Tanaka

We study quantum tunnelling via s-wave superconductor (SC) junction with a topologically charged nodal surface semimetal (NSSM) where a nonsymmorphic symmetry forces the nodal surfaces to stick to the Brillouin Zone boundary. Due to their…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-24 Bhaskar Pandit , Satyaki Kar

We study theoretically a junction of a $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric non-Hermitian superconductor (PTS) placed between two conventional superconductors. We show that due to non-Hermitian electron-electron interaction in the PTS region and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-13 Viktoriia Kornich , Björn Trauzettel

We present an exhaustive study of Andreev crystals (ACs) -- quasi-one-dimensional superconducting wires with a periodic distribution of magnetic regions. The exchange field in these regions is assumed to be much smaller than the Fermi…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-18 Mikel Rouco , F Sebastian Bergeret , Ilya V Tokatly

This paper reviews the confinement-driven phase transitions, and the prediction of superfluid phases with broken time-reversal or translational symmetry in thin films. The new phases are a result of particle-hole coherent Andreev scattering…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-07-27 Anton B. Vorontsov