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We investigate the Josephson transport properties in a Josephson junction consisting of a conventional $s$-wave superconductor coupled to a multi-orbital noncentrosymmetric superconductor marked by an orbitally driven inversion asymmetry…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-21 Yuri Fukaya , Yada Keiji , Yukio Tanaka , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco

In the presence of both space and time reversal symmetries, an s-wave A1g superconducting state is usually topologically trivial. Here we demonstrate that an exception can take place in a type of nonsymmorphic lattice structures. We specify…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-17 Shengshan Qin , Chen Fang , Fu-Chun Zhang , Jiangping Hu

We study a simple microscopic model for thin, ferromagnetic, metallic layers on semi-infinite bulk superconductor. We find that for certain values of the exchange spliting, on the ferromagnetic side, the ground states of such structures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Krawiec , B. L. Gyorffy , J. F. Annett

We investigate a topological superconducting wire with balanced gain and loss that is effectively described by the non-Hermitian Kitaev/Majorana chain with parity-time symmetry. This system is shown to possess two distinct types of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-10 Kohei Kawabata , Yuto Ashida , Hosho Katsura , Masahito Ueda

We demonstrate theoretically that the spin polarization of current can be electrically amplified within nonmagnetic semiconductors by exploiting the fact the spin current, compared to the charge current, is weakly perturbed by electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. -W. Jung , H. -W. Lee

Ballistic spin transport through waveguides, with symmetric or asymmetric double stubs attached to them periodically, is studied systematically in the presence of a weak spin-orbit coupling that makes the electrons precess. By an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 X. F. Wang , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

We review the main properties of Spin Waves condensation to a coherent quantum state, named Homogeneously Precessing Domain (HPD). We describe the long range coherent transport of magnetization by Spin Supercurrent in antiferromagnetic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-08-21 Yuriy Bunkov

Time reversal (T) invariant topological insulator is widely recognized as one of the fundamental discoveries in condensed matter physics, for which the most fascinating hallmark is perhaps a spin based topological protection, the total…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-17 Xue-Feng Zhu , Yu-Gui Peng , Xiang-Yuan Yu , Han Jia , Ming Bao , Ya-Xi Shen , De-Gang Zhao

Topologically nontrivial band structure of a material may give rise to special states that are confined to the material's boundary and protected against disorder and scattering. Quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) is a paradigmatic example of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Luis Alberto Razo López , Pierre Wulles , Geoffroy J. Aubry , Sergey E. Skipetrov , Fabrice Mortessagne

The theoretical prediction of topological insulators in 2007 triggered tremendous interest. They are of fundamental interest because of their topological twist in k-space, which comes along with unidirectional, spin-polarized surface-state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 T. Schumann , N. Meyer , G. Mussler , J. Kampmeier , D. Grützmacher , E. Schmoranzerova , L. Braun , T. Kampfrath , J. Walowski , M. Münzenberg

We investigate the interplay between unconventional magnetism and superconductivity in a model of a $p$-wave magnet on a square lattice. Using a self-consistent Bogoliubov-de-Gennes approach, we analyze the pairing amplitudes, competition,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-19 J. E. C. Carmelo , I. R. Pimentel , P. D. Sacramento

The pursuit of dissipationless spin supercurrents is a central theme in superconducting spintronics. We propose a field-free Josephson junction using an inhomogeneous altermagnetic interlayer with in-plane N\'{e}el vectors. We show that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-11 Wenjun Zhao , Yuri Fukaya , Pablo Burset , Jorge Cayao , Yukio Tanaka , Bo Lu

We investigate the emergence and consequences of odd-frequency spin-triplet s-wave pairing in superconducting hybrid junctions at the edge of a two-dimensional topological insulator without any magnetism. More specifically, we consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We study the surface density of states in $p$-wave unconventional magnet-spin-singlet $s$-wave superconductor hybrid systems ($p$-wave unconventional magnetic superconductors). Owing to the noncollinear spin structure in $p$-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-27 Yuri Fukaya , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka

We evidence the possibility for coherent electrical manipulation of the spin orientation of topologically protected edge states in a low-symmetry quantum spin Hall insulator. By using a combination of ab-initio simulations, symmetry-based…

Topological superconductors support Majorana modes, which are quasiparticles that are their own antiparticles and which obey non-Abelian statistics in which successive exchanges of particles do not always commute. Here we investigate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-29 Jonathan Schirmer , J. K. Jain , C. -X. Liu

We study theoretically proximity-induced superconductivity and ferromagnetism on the surface of a topological insulator. In particular, we investigate how the Andreev-bound states are influenced by the interplay between these phenomena,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 Jacob Linder , Yukio Tanaka , Takehito Yokoyama , Asle Sudbø , Naoto Nagaosa

A theory of spin polarized tunneling spectroscopy based on a scattering theory is given for tunneling junctions between ferromagnets and d-wave superconductors. The spin filtering effect of an exchange field in the insulator is also…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Kashiwaya , Y. Tanaka , N. Yoshida , M. R. Beasley

Spin-polarized transport is investigated in normal metal-superconductor (NS) junctions as a function of interface transmissivity as well as temperature when the density of states of a superconductor is Zeeman-split in response to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-03 F. Giazotto , F. Taddei

In a topological insulator (TI) the character of electron transport varies from insulating in the interior of the material to metallic near its surface. Unlike, however, ordinary metals, conducting surface states in TIs are topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-08 G. Tkachov , E. M. Hankiewicz