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In a mesoscopic metal in proximity with a superconductor, the electronic conductance is enhanced in a very energy-sensitive way. In this paper, we discuss the spectral conductance of a proximity superconductor from both the theoretical and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Courtois , P. Charlat , Ph. Gandit , D. Mailly , B. Pannetier

The proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in heterostructures of twisted graphene and topological insulators (TIs) Bi$_2$Se$_3$ and Bi$_2$Te$_3$ is investigated from first principles. To build commensurate supercells, we strain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Thomas Naimer , Jaroslav Fabian

We study proximity-induced superconductivity on the surface of a topological insulator (TI), focusing on unconventional pairing. We find that the excitation spectrum becomes gapless for any spin-triplet pairing, such that both subgap bound…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-14 Jacob Linder , Yukio Tanaka , Takehito Yokoyama , Asle Sudbø , Naoto Nagaosa

We have investigated the conductance spectra of Sn-Bi2Se3 interface junctions down to 250 mK and in different magnetic fields. A number of conductance anomalies were observed below the superconducting transition temperature of Sn, including…

We study the superconducting proximity effect on the helical edge states of time-reversal-symmetric fractional topological insulators(FTI). The Cooper pairing of electrons results in many-particle condensation of the fractionalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-21 Meng Cheng

By introducing a superconducting gap in Weyl- or Dirac semi-metals, the superconducting state inherits the non-trivial topology of their electronic structure. As a result, Weyl superconductors are expected to host exotic phenomena such as…

From a leading-order unbiased renormalization group analysis we here showcase the emergence of superconductivity (including the topological ones) from purely repulsive electron-electron interactions in two-dimensional doped Dirac…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-26 Sk Asrap Murshed , Sanjib Kumar Das , Bitan Roy

The protected surface conduction of topological insulators is in high demand for the next generation of electronic devices. What is needed to move forward are robust settings where topological surface currents can be controlled by simple…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-11 M. Taupin , G. Eguchi , M. Luznik , A. Steiger-Thirsfeld , Y. Ishida , K. Kuroda , S. Shin , A. Kimura , S. Paschen

Topological superconductors should be able to provide essential ingredients for quantum computing, but are very challenging to realize. Spin-orbit interaction in iron-based superconductors opens the energy gap between the $p$-states of…

The usually negligibly small thermoelectric effects in superconducting heterostructures can be boosted dramatically due to the simultaneous effect of spin splitting and spin filtering. Building on an idea of our earlier work [Phys. Rev.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-20 P. Machon , M. Eschrig , W. Belzig

The anomalous proximity effect between a d-wave superconductor and a surface layer with small electronic mean free path is studied theoretically in the framework of the Eilenberger equations. The angular and spatial structure of the pair…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. A. Golubov , M. Yu. Kupriyanov

We derive a refraction law for superconducting vortices at superconductor/normal metal interfaces. Simulations of the proximity effect under tilted geometries confirm this law and reveal vortex trapping for low effective mass. Under…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-28 Matéo F. L. Roinard-Chauvet , Axel J. M. Deenen , Dirk Grundler

Interest in the superconducting proximity effect has been reinvigorated recently by novel optoelectronic applications as well as by the possible emergence of the elusive Majorana fermion at the interface between topological insulators and…

The ability to induce a sizable gap in the excitation spectrum of a normal layer placed in contact with a conventional superconductor has become increasingly important in recent years in the context of engineering a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Christopher R. Reeg , Dmitrii L. Maslov

We investigate the properties of the nearest-neighbor singlet pairing and the emergence of d-wave superconductivity in the doped honeycomb lattice considering the limit of large interactions and the $t-J_1-J_2$ model. First, by applying a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-03 Wei Wu , Michael M. Scherer , Carsten Honerkamp , Karyn Le Hur

We study theoretically proximity-induced superconductivity and its inverse effect in dice lattice flat band model by considering Josephson junction with an s-wave pairing in the superconducting leads. Using self-consistent tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Somayeh Ahmadkhani , Mir Vahid Hosseini

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 proximity effects close to a boundary between s and s+- superconductors. Frustration, caused by interaction of the s-wave gap parameter with the opposite-sign gaps of s+- superconductor, leads to several anomalous features. In the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-12-24 Valentin G. Stanev , Alexei E. Koshelev

The superconducting s-wave state in Weyl semimetals in a strong strain-induced pseudomagnetic field is investigated in a model with local four-fermion interaction. It is found that only the inter-node pairing is possible in the lowest…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-08-03 P. O. Sukhachov , E. V. Gorbar

Topological superconductors have garnered significant attention due to their potential for realizing topological quantum computation. However, a universal computational tool based on first-principles calculations for predicting topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-02 Jingnan Hu , Aiyun Luo , Zhijun Wang , Jingyu Zou , Quansheng Wu , Gang Xu