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Spin-momentum locked (SML) topological surface state (TSS) provides exotic properties for spintronics applications. The spin-polarized current, which emerges owing to the SML, can be directly detected by performing spin potentiometric…

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A one-dimensional boundary of a two-dimensional topological superconductor can host a number of topologically protected chiral modes. Combining two topological superconductors with different topological indices, it is possible to achieve a…

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Superconductivity in materials whose crystal structure lacks inversion symmetry is a prime candidate for unconventional superconductivity. A new noncentrosymmetric compound Zr$_{3}$Ir crystallizes in a tetragonal $ \alpha $-V$_{3} $S…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-08 Sajilesh. K. P. , D. Singh , P. K. Biswas , Gavin B. G. Stenning , A. D. Hillier , R. P. Singh

We propose and investigate a spin transistor device consisting of two ferromagnetic leads connected by a two-dimensional topological insulator as the channel material. It exploits the unique features of the topological spin-helical edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-31 Xianbo Xiao , Ying Liu , Zhengfang Liu , Guoping Ai , Shengyuan A. Yang , Guanghui Zhou

Superconducting (SC) state has spin and orbital degrees of freedom, and spin-triplet superconductivity shows multiple SC phases due to the presence of these degrees of freedom. However, the observation of spin-direction rotation occurring…

Topological superconductors (TSCs) in superconducting hybrid heterostructures, which integrate superconducting and non-superconducting materials, have been intensely investigated with the hope of discovering exotic non-Abelian anyons for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-14 Joseph J. Cuozzo , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Dale Huber , Wei Pan , François Léonard

Noncentrosymmetric superconductors with broken inversion symmetry $P$ offer rich physical phenomena such as the upper critical magnetic field $H_{c2}$ beyond the Pauli limit and magnetoelectric effect. The relativistic spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-07-12 Ryohei Wakatsuki , Naoto Nagaosa

Superconductivity in topological band structures is a platform for many novel exotic quantum phenomena such as emergent supersymmetry. This potential nourishes the search for topological materials with intrinsic superconducting…

Without applied bias voltage, a superconducting phase difference can drive a charge Josephson supercurrent in a superconductor junction. In analogy, we here theoretically propose a spin phase that intrinsically generates spin Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-30 Yue Mao , Qing-Feng Sun

We investigate some possible symmetries of the superconducting state that emerges in three-dimensional altermagnets in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. We demonstrate within a weak-coupling approach that these altermagnets, which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-24 Vanuildo S. de Carvalho , Hermann Freire

A system exhibiting multiple simultaneously broken symmetries offers the opportunity to influence physical phenomena such as tunneling currents by means of external control parameters. Time-reversal symmetry and inversion symmetry are both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Linder , M. S. Gronsleth , A. Sudbo

We derive a formalism describing quantum-coherent features of spin-polarized charge current through a partially-polarized spin triplet defect in a $\textit{transverse}$ magnetic field. We predict distinct few-milli-tesla-dc…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Stephen R. McMillan , Michael E. Flatté

Since the prediction of a new topological state of matter in graphene, materials acting as topological insulators have attracted wide attention. Shortly after the theoretical proposal for a mercury telluride (HgTe)-based two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-26 Viktor Krueckl , Klaus Richter

We discuss the appearance of odd-frequency spin-triplet s-wave superconductivity, first proposed by Berezinskii [{\it JETP} {\bf 20}, 287 (1974)], on the surface of a topological insulator proximity coupled to a conventional spin-singlet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-20 Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Alexander V. Balatsky

We study dc-transport and magnetization dynamics in a junction of arbitrary transparency consisting of two spin-singlet superconducting leads connected via a single classical spin precessing at the frequency $\Omega$. The presence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-06 S. Teber , C. Holmqvist , M. Fogelstrom

Chiral and helical domain walls are generic defects of topological spin-triplet superconductors. We study theoretically the magnetic and transport properties of superconducting singlet-triplet-singlet heterostructure as a function of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-17 A. Romano , C. Noce , I. Vekhter , M. Cuoco

The edges of time reversal symmetry breaking topological superconductors support chiral Majorana bound states as well as spontaneous charge currents. The Majorana modes are a robust, topological property, but the charge currents are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-18 Wen Huang , Samuel Lederer , Edward Taylor , Catherine Kallin

A theory of spin-polarized transport in inhomogeneous magnetic semiconductors is developed and applied to magnetic/nonmagnetic p-n junctions. Several phenomena with possible spintronic applications are predicted, including spinvoltaic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Igor Zutic , Jaroslav Fabian , S. Das Sarma

The helical edge states of time-reversal invariant two-dimensional topological insulators are protected against backscattering in idealized models. In more realistic scenarios with a shallow confining potential at the sample boundary,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Niels John , Adrian Del Maestro , Bernd Rosenow

We propose a ``spin-guide'' source for generation of electric currents with a high degree of spin polarization, allowing long-distance transmission of the spin-polarization. In the spin-guide scheme proposed here, a non-magnetic conducting…

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