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We study spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ fermions coupled to $\mathbb{Z}_2$ gauge fields on a lattice. We show how a spatial modulation of the fermion hopping allows for the realization of various obstructed atomic insulators that host higher-order band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-12 Bhandaru Phani Parasar , Vijay B. Shenoy

A superconducting double spin valve device is proposed. Its operation takes advantage of the interplay between the spin-filtering effect of ferromagnetic insulators and superconductivity-induced out-of-equilibrium transport. Depending on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-03 Francesco Giazotto

We study the spin transport properties of the non-centrosymmetric superconductor with time-reversal-symmetry where spin-triplet $(p_{x} \pm i p_{y})$-wave and spin-singlet s-wave pair potential can mix each other. We show that when the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Yukio Tanaka , Takehito Yokoyama , Alexander V. Balatsky , Naoto Nagaosa

The interplay between superconductivity, spin-orbit coupling, and Zeeman or exchange field, is studied theoretically in two different setups: a single wire in which all these fields coexist, and a double wire system in which superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-20 J. Baumard , J. Cayssol , A. Buzdin , F. S. Bergeret

We study transport across either a potential or a magnetic barrier which is placed on the top surface of a three-dimensional thin topological insulator (TI). For such thin TIs, the top and bottom surfaces interact via a coupling $\lambda$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Adithi Udupa , K. Sengupta , Diptiman Sen

In two dimensions, an s-wave superconductor in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling possesses distinct topologically non-trivial ground state phases controlled by Zeeman splitting and band filling. These phases can be characterized in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-26 Stefan Gorol , Florian Loder , Daniel Braak , Arno P. Kampf , Thilo Kopp

If, during the preparation, an external magnetic field is applied upon cooling we say it has been field cooled. A novel mechanism for insulator-metal transition and superconductivity in field-cooled spin-$1/2$ antiferromagnets on bcc…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-17 Naoum Karchev

Superconductors can transport spin without Joule dissipation, yet their coherent coupling to short-wavelength magnons in insulating magnets remains largely unexplored. Here we demonstrate experimentally and theoretically that a conventional…

The lack of some spatial symmetries in planar devices with Rashba spin-orbit interaction opens the possibility of producing spin polarized electrical currents in absence of external magnetic field or magnetic impurities. We study how the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Leonor Chico , A. Latgé , Luis Brey

Superconductivity is a phenomena where an external-feeding current flows through the system without voltage drop. This indicates the existence of an energy minimum under the current feeding boundary condition. Although it is believed that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-14 Daichi Manabe , Hiroyasu Koizumi

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

We study electronic transport in graphene/ferromagnetic insulator hybrid devices. The system comprises an armchair graphene nanoribbon with a lens-shaped EuO ferromagnetic insulator layer deposited on top of it. When the device supports a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-12 Yuriko Baba , Marta Saiz-Bretín

We discuss the effect of a magnetic thin-film ribbon at the surface of a topological insulator on the charge and spin transport due to surface electrons.\\ If the magnetization in the magnetic ribbon is perpendicular to the surface of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 P. R. Rzeszutko , S. Kudla , V. K. Dugaev

We show that introducing spin-singlet or spin-triplet superconductivity into twisted bilayer graphene induces higher-order topological superconductivity. $C_{2z}T$-protected corner states of Majorana Kramers pairs appear at the boundary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-13 Aaron Chew , Yijie Wang , B. Andrei Bernevig , Zhi-Da Song

Graphene-based moire superlattices provide a versatile platform for exploring novel correlated and topological electronic states, driven by enhanced Coulomb interactions within flat bands. The intrinsic tunability of graphene s multiple…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-16 Jian Zheng , Size Wu , Kai Liu , Bosai Lyu , Shuhan Liu , Yating Sha , Zhengxian Li , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jinfeng Jia , Zhiwen Shi , Guorui Chen

The controlled tunability of superconductivity in low-dimensional materials may enable new quantum devices. Particularly in triplet or topological superconductors, tunneling devices such as Josephson junctions etc. can demonstrate exotic…

Crystals with symmetry-protected topological order, such as topological insulators, promise coherent spin and charge transport phenomena even in the presence of disorder at room temperature. Still, a major obstacle towards an application of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Paul Seifert , Marinus Kundinger , Gang Shi , Xiaoyue He , Kehui Wu , Yongqing Li , Alexander Holleitner , Christoph Kastl

For graphene nanoribbons with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, the peculiar magnetic response due to the presence of a magnetization and geometric confinement are analyzed within a tight-binding model. We observe a sizable transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Matheus S. M. de Sousa , Manfred Sigrist , Wei Chen

We study magnetization transport in anisotropic spin-$1/2$ chains governed by the integrable XXZ model with and without integrability-breaking perturbations at high temperatures ($T\to \infty$) using a hybrid approach that combines exact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-17 Ramsés J. Sánchez , Vipin Kerala Varma , Vadim Oganesyan

In superconductors the zero-resistance current-flow is protected from dissipation at finite temperatures (T) by virtue of the short-circuit condition maintained by the electrons that remain in the condensed state. The recently suggested…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-09 M. Ovadia , D. Kalok , I. Tamir , S. Mitra , B. Sacepe , D. Shahar