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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

Mixing of topological states with superconductivity could result in topological superconductivity with the elusive Majorana fermions potentially applicable in fault-tolerant quantum computing. One possible candidate considered for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-08-12 Asish K. Kundu , Ze-Bin Wu , I. K. Drozdov , G. D. Gu , T. Valla

Motivated by recent experiments searching for Majorana zero modes in tripartite semiconductor nanowires with epitaxial superconductor and ferromagnetic-insulator layers, we explore the emergence of topological superconductivity in such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Josias Langbehn , Sergio Acero Gonzalez , Piet W. Brouwer , Felix von Oppen

Localization lengths of superconducting quasiparticles $\lambda_s$ are evaluated and compared with the corresponding normal state values $\lambda_n$ in one and two dimensional lattices. The effect of superconducting correlation on the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Tao Xiang

We investigate the Majorana fermions in a semiconductor nanostructure with two wires connected through a ring. The nanostructure is mirror symmetric and in the proximity of a superconductor. The Rashba spin-orbit coupling and a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-01 B. Y. Sun , M. W. Wu

Quantum confinement of the perpendicular motion of electrons in single-crystalline metallic superconducting nanofilms splits the conduction band into a series of single-electron subbands. A distinctive feature of such a nanoscale multi-band…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 Yajiang Chen , A. A. Shanenko , A. Perali , F. M. Peeters

An inherent difficulty in studying mesoscopic effects in semiconductor--superconductor hybrid structures is the large Schottky barrier which often forms at the interface. A large technological effort has been invested in in improving the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Niels Asger Mortensen , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Karsten Flensberg

We study the superconducting proximity effect in an InAs nanowire contacted by Ta-based superconducting electrodes. Using local bottom gates, we control the potential landscape along the nanowire, tuning its conductance to a quasi-ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 J. C. Estrada Saldaña , R. Žitko , J. P. Cleuziou , E. J. H. Lee , V. Zannier , D. Ercolani , L. Sorba , R. Aguado , S. De Franceschi

We describe the superconducting proximity effect taking place in a contact between a noncentrosymmetric superconductor and a diffusive normal/ferromagnetic metal within the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity. By solving numerically…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-11-26 Gaetano Annunziata , Dirk Manske , Jacob Linder

Introduction of a Josephson field effect transistor (JoFET) concept sparked active research on proximity effects in semiconductors. Induced superconductivity and electrostatic control of critical current has been demonstrated in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Zhong Wan , Aleksandr Kazakov , Michael J. Manfra , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Ken W. West , Leonid P. Rokhinson

We study the electric and thermoelectric transport properties of correlated quantum dots coupled to two ferromagnetic leads and one superconducting electrode. Transport through such hybrid devices depends on the interplay of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Krzysztof P. Wojcik , Ireneusz Weymann

We study the proximity effect between the fully-gapped region of a topological insulator in direct contact with an s-wave superconducting electrode (STI) and the surrounding topological insulator flake (TI) in…

We consider proximity effect coupling in Superconducting/Antiferromagnetic/Superconducting (S-A-S) sandwiches using the recently developed SO(5) effective theory of high temperature superconductivity. We find that, for narrow junctions, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 E. Demler , A. J. Berlinsky , C. Kallin , G. B. Arnold , M. R. Beasley

We present a theoretical framework for investigating superconducting proximity effect in altermagnet (AM)-superconductor (SC) heterostructures. In general, AMs, characterized by vanishing net magnetization but spin-split electronic spectra,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-20 Ohidul Alam , Amartya Pal , Paramita Dutta , Arijit Saha

We study the proximity effect in a topological nanowire tunnel coupled to an s-wave superconducting substrate. We use a general Green's function approach that allows us to study the evolution of the Andreev bound states in the wire into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-07 D. Chevallier , P. Simon , C. Bena

We develop a theory of a pseudogap state appearing near the superconductor-insulator transition in strongly disordered metals with attractive interaction. We show that such an interaction combined with the fractal nature of the single…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael V. Feigel'man , Lev B. Ioffe , Emil A. Yuzbashyan

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 investigate the superconducting proximity effect in a clean magnetic structure consisting of two ferromagnetic layered domains with antiparallel magnetizations in contact with a superconductor. Within the quasiclassical Green's function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. A. Maleki , M. Zareyan

The miniaturization of electronic devices has led to the prominence, in technological applications, of semiconductor thin films that are only a few nanometers thick. In spite of intense research, the thickness-dependent resistivity or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Alessio Zaccone

We introduce superconducting proximity effects in Weyl semi-metals (WSM) with broken time reversal symmetry by tunnel coupling one of its surfaces to an s-wave superconductor using the Green's function approach. We find that the band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Udit Khanna , Arijit Kundu , Saurabh Pradhan , Sumathi Rao