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We theoretically study the spin-dependent transport in a ferromagnet/super- conductor/ferromagnet double tunnel junction. The tunneling current in the antiferromagnetic alignment of the magnetizations gives rise to a spin imbalance in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Takahashi , H. Imamura , S. Maekawa

We investigate magnetotransport in exfoliated nanostructures of the candidate magnetic 3D topological insulator $\mathrm{EuSn_{2}As_{2}}$. Similar to macroscopic single crystals, the negative magnetoresistance observed below the N\'eel…

The abstract notion of topology has led to profound insights into real materials. Notably, the surface and edges of topological materials can host physics, such as unidirectional charge or spin transport, that is unavailable in isolated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Nicodemos Varnava , Justin H. Wilson , J. H. Pixley , David Vanderbilt

We study the transmission through single and double ferromagnetic barriers on the surface of a topological insulator. By adjusting the gate voltage and magnetization oreintation, the ferromagnetic barrier can be tuned into various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-03 Jinhua Gao , Wei-Qiang Chen , Xiao-Yong Feng , X. C. Xie , Fu-Chun Zhang

The large spin orbit coupling in topological insulators results in helical spin-textured Dirac surface states that are attractive for topological spintronics. These states generate an efficient spin-orbit torque on proximal magnetic moments…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Yang Lv , James Kally , Delin Zhang , Joon Sue Lee , Mahdi Jamali , Nitin Samarth , Jian-Ping Wang

Two-dimensional topological superconductivity has attracted great interest due to the emergence of Majorana modes bound to vortices and propagating along edges. However, due to its rare appearance in natural compounds, experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-19 J. L. Lado , M. Sigrist

We consider multi-terminal transport through a flake of rectangular shape of a two-dimensional topological insulator in the presence of an in-plane magnetic field. This system has been shown to be a second-order topological insulator, thus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Joseph Poata , Fabio Taddei , Michele Governale

We study the transport properties of nanoscale superconducting (S) devices in which two superconducting electrodes are bridged by two parallel ferromagnetic (F) wires, forming an SFFS junction with a separation between the two wires less…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-06-05 Madalina Colci , Kuei Sun , Nayana Shah , Smitha Vishveshwara , Dale J. Van Harlingen

We derive diffusion equations, which describe spin-charge coupled transport on the helical metal surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator. The main feature of these equations is a large magnitude of the spin-charge coupling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. A. Burkov , D. G. Hawthorn

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

Topological superconductors are appealing building blocks for robust and reliable quantum information processing. Most platforms for engineering topological superconductivity rely on a combination of superconductors, materials with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Ignacio Sardinero , Rubén Seoane Souto , Pablo Burset

We study the properties of Dirac fermions on the surface of a topological insulator in the presence of crossed electric and magnetic fields. We provide an exact solution to this problem and demonstrate that, in contrast to their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 S. Mondal , D. Sen , K. Sengupta , R. Shankar

The surface quantum Hall state, magneto-electric phenomena and their connection to axion electrodynamics have been studied intensively for topological insulators. One of the obstacles for observing such effects comes from nonzero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 G. Tkachov , E. M. Hankiewicz

We demonstrate single atom anisotropic magnetoresistance on the surface of a topological insulator, arising from the interplay between the helical spin-momentum-locked surface electronic structure and the hybridization of the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Awadhesh Narayan , Ivan Rungger , Stefano Sanvito

We measure the low-temperature resistance of permalloy break junctions as a function of contact size and the magnetic field angle, in applied fields large enough to saturate the magnetization. For both nanometer-scale metallic contacts and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-07 Kirill I. Bolotin , Ferdinand Kuemmeth , D. C. Ralph

We present calculations of quantized conductance and magnetoresistance in nanosize point contacts between two ferromagnetic metals. When conductance is open for only one conduction electrons spin-projection, the magnitude of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 L. R. Tagirov , B. P. Vodopyanov , B. M. Garipov

We study transport across a time-dependent magnetic barrier present on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator. We show that such a barrier can be implemented for Dirac electrons on the surface of a three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Adithi Udupa , K. Sengupta , Diptiman Sen

Using the tight-binding approximation and the nonequilibrium Green's function approach, we investigate the coherent spin-dependent transport in planar magnetic junctions consisting of two ferromagnetic (FM) electrodes separated by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-04 Alireza Saffarzadeh , Mahdi Ghorbani Asl

The transport properties of interacting electrons for which the spin degree of freedom is taken into account are numerically studied for small two dimensional diffusive clusters. On-site electron-electron interactions tend to delocalize the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Richard Berkovits , Jan W. Kantelhardt

We study the magnon-mediated pairing between fermions on the surface of a topological insulator (TI) coupled to a ferromagnetic insulator with a tilted mean field magnetization. Tilting the magnetization towards the interfacial plane…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-28 Henning G. Hugdal , Asle Sudbø