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Josephson junctions coupled through magnetic textures provide a controllable platform for odd-frequency superconductivity and Majorana physics. Within a tight-binding Green function framework, induced pair correlations and spectral…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-11 Ignacio Sardinero , Jorge Cayao , Rubén Seoane Souto , Pablo Burset

We study the electronic density of states in a mesoscopic superconductor near a transparent interface with a ferromagnetic metal. In our tunnel spectroscopy experiment, a substantial density of states is observed at sub-gap energies close…

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We study the proximity-induced superconducting correlations as well as the local density of states of a ferromagnet, in a ferromagnet/s-wave superconductor heterostructure. We include the effects of spin-flip scattering, non-ideal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob Linder , Asle Sudbø

We report on the study of electron transport in the oxide heterostructures with superconductor/magnetic matter (S/M) interfaces where anomaly large penetration of superconducting correlations in magnetic matter (proximity effect) is…

We study the anomalous proximity effect in diffusive normal metal (DN)/unconventional superconductor junctions, where the local density of states (LDOS) in the DN has a zero-energy peak due to the penetration of the odd-frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-27 Shun Tamura , Yukio Tanaka

Motivated by recent experiments in trapped Fermi gas with spin population imbalance, we discuss the effects of the quantum and thermal fluctuations of the interface between a fully paired superfluid core and a fully polarized Fermi gas. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-09-05 Hui Zhai , Dung-Hai Lee

The stressed heterojunctions with antiferromagnetic ordering in which the constituents have oppposite band edge symmetry and their gaps have opposite signs have been investigated. The interface states have been shown to appear in these…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. G. Kantser , N. M. Malkova

The study of multi-band superconductivity is relevant for a variety of systems, from ultra cold atoms with population imbalance to particle physics, and condensed matter. As a consequence, this problem has been widely investigated bringing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-17 Mucio A. Continentino , Igor T. Padilha , Heron Caldas

Spin-polarized normal-metal wires coupled to a superconductor can host Majorana states at their ends. These decay into the bulk and are protected by a minigap in the spectrum. Previous studies have found that strong coupling between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Thomas Kiendl , Felix von Oppen , Piet W. Brouwer

We explore the role of proximity-induced odd-frequency pairing in the thermoelectricity of a ferromagnet when coupled to a conventional $s$-wave spin-singlet superconductor through a spin-active interface. By varying both the polarization…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-18 Paramita Dutta , Kauê R. Alves , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

The presence of a spin-flip potential at the interface between a superconductor and a ferromagnetic metal allows for the generation of equal-spin spin-triplet Cooper pairs. These Cooper pairs are compatible with the exchange interaction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-02 Daniel Fritsch , James F. Annett

Pair density modulation is a superconducting state, recently observed in exfoliated iron-based superconductor flakes, in which the superconducting gap oscillates strongly with the same periodicity as the underlying crystalline lattice. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-26 Michał Papaj , Lingyuan Kong , Stevan Nadj-Perge , Patrick A. Lee

The spin transport inside an odd-frequency spin-triplet superconductor differs from that of a conventional superconductor due to its distinct symmetry properties. We study spin transport inside an emergent odd-frequency superconductor by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-10 Lina G. Johnsen , Jacob Linder

Combining superconducting and magnetic materials is a promising path to generate exotic interface subgap states. In this regard, altermagnetism is particularly interesting because it lifts spin degeneracy while providing tailored anisotropy…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-11 Bo Lu , Phillip Mercebach , Pablo Burset , Keiji Yada , Jorge Cayao , Yukio Tanaka , Yuri Fukaya

Majorana zero modes have been shown to be the simplest quasiparticles exhibiting pure odd-frequency pairing, an effect that has so far been theoretically established in the static regime. In this work, we investigate the formation of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-23 Eslam Ahmed , Shun Tamura , Yukio Tanaka , Jorge Cayao

Strong spin-orbit coupling can have a profound effect on the electronic structure in a metal or semiconductor, particularly for low electron concentrations. We show how, for small values of the Fermi energy compared to the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Cappelluti , C. Grimaldi , F. Marsiglio

Proximity effects allow for the adjustment of magnetic properties in a physically elegant way. If two thin ferromagnetic (FM) films are brought into contact, electronic coupling alters their magnetic exchange interaction at their interface.…

We study the role of the superconducting proximity effect on the electron-phonon energy exchange in diffusive normal metals (N) attached to superconductors (S). The proximity effect modifies the spectral response of the normal metal, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-16 T. T. Heikkila , F. Giazotto

To pinpoint the microscopic mechanism for superconductivity has proven to be one of the most outstanding challenges in the physics of correlated quantum matter. Thus far, the most direct evidence for an electronic pairing mechanism is the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-29 Mathias S. Scheurer , Jörg Schmalian

We present a numerical study of the density of states in a ferromagnet/superconductor junction and the Josephson current in a superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor junction in the diffusive limit by solving the Usadel equation with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob Linder , Takehito Yokoyama , Asle Sudbø