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We theoretically study the proximity effect and the inverse proximity effect in a topological insulator/iron-based superconductor heterostructure based on the microscopic model. The superconducting order parameter is self-consistently…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-09 Qi-Guang Zhu , Tao Zhou

Proximity-induced superconductivity in low-dimensional systems offers a powerful pathway to engineer topological superconducting phases in, otherwise, non-superconducting systems. These exotic phases are of fundamental and technological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 M. García Olmos , Y. Baba , R. A. Molina , M. Amado

The proximity effect in semiconductor-superconductor nanowires is expected to generate an induced gap in the semiconductor. The magnitude of this induced gap, together with the semiconductor properties like the spin-orbit coupling and…

We present very low temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy (STM/S) measurements of a W based amorphous thin film grown with focused-ion-beam. In particular, we address the superconducting properties close to the border,…

We study spectroscopic properties of ferromagnetic-superconductor heterostructures with strong spin-orbit coupling of the Rashba type and in the presence of exchange fields. The superconducting layer (film) experiences both an intrinsic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-03-28 P. M. Svetlichnyy , Z. Jiang , C. A. R. Sá de Melo

We present a study of the proximity effect and the inverse proximity effect in a superconductor$\mid$ferromagnet bilayer, taking into account several important factors which mostly have been ignored in the literature so far. These include…

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

Experiments on planar Josephson junction architectures have recently been shown to provide an alternative way of creating topological superconductors hosting accessible Majorana modes. These zero-energy modes can be found at the ends of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 F. Setiawan , Chien-Te Wu , K. Levin

Superconductivity in topological materials has drawn a significant interest of the scientific community as these materials provide a hint of the existence of Majorana fermions conceived from the quantized thermal conductivity, a zero-biased…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-27 M. M. Sharma , Prince Sharma , N. K. Karn , V. P. S. Awana

We numerically analyze the effect of finite length of the superconducting regions on the low-energy spectrum, current-phase curves, and critical currents in junctions between trivial and topological superconductors. Such junctions are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Topological quantum computation, featuring qubits built out of anyonic excitations known as Majorana zero modes (MZMs), have long presented an exciting pathway towards scalable quantum computation. Recently, the advent of altermagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Themba Hodge , Eric Mascot , Stephan Rachel

The very special characteristic of the proximity effect in superconductor-ferromagnet systems is the damped oscillatory behavior of the Cooper pair wave function in a ferromagnet. In some sense, this is analogous to the inhomogeneous…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 A. I. Buzdin

Technology involving hybrid superconductor-semiconductor materials is a promising avenue for engineering quantum devices for information storage, manipulation, and transmission. Proximity-induced superconducting correlations are an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Serafim S. Babkin , Benjamin Joecker , Karsten Flensberg , Maksym Serbyn , Jeroen Danon

We develop a unified numerical approach for modeling semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures. Our approach takes into account on equal footing important key ingredients: proximity-induced superconductivity, orbital and Zeeman effect…

We study the robustness of Majorana zero energy modes and minigaps of quasiparticle excitations in a vortex by numerically solving Bogoliubov-deGennes equations in a heterostructure composed of an \textit{s} -wave superconductor, a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-11-11 Li Mao , Chuanwei Zhang

We investigate the local density of states, spectral function, and superconducting pair amplitudes for signatures of Majorana fermions in vortex cores in ferromagnetic and spin-orbit coupled semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-06 Kristofer Björnson , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We consider the one-dimensional (1D) topological superconductor that may form in a planar superconductor-metal-superconductor Josephson junction in which the metal is is subjected to spin orbit coupling and to an in-plane magnetic field.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-03-27 Ady Stern , Erez Berg

We study the electronic properties of a planar semiconductor-superconductor heterostructure, in which a thin ferromagnetic insulator layer lies in between and acts as a spin filtering barrier. We find that in such a system one can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Chun-Xiao Liu , Michael Wimmer

Supercurrent rectification, nonreciprocal response of superconducting properties sensitive to the polarity of bias and magnetic field, has attracted growing interest as an ideal diode. While the superconducting rectification effect is a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-18 Yusuke Kobayashi , Junichi Shiogai , Tsutomu Nojima , Jobu Matsuno

We investigate the physical mechanisms for achieving an electrical control of conventional spin-singlet superconductivity in thin films by focusing on the role of surface orbital polarization. Assuming a multi-orbital description of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-18 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto , Mario Cuoco

Recent experimental breakthrough in magnetic Weyl semimetals have inspired exploration on the novel effects of various magnetic structures in these materials. Here we focus on a domain wall structure which connects two uniform domains with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-07 Zhao Huang , Christopher Lane , Dmitry Yarotski , A. J. Taylor , Jian-Xin Zhu