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Interfacing a topological insulator (TI) with an $s$-wave superconductor (SC) is a promising material platform that offers the possibility to realize a topological superconductor through which Majorana-based topologically protected qubits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Philipp Rüßmann , Stefan Blügel

We consider an isolated vortex in the two-dimensional proximity-induced superconducting state formed at the interface of a three-dimensional strong topological insulator (TI) and an s-wave superconductor (sSC). Prior calculations of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-09 Adam C. Durst

High-quality topological insulator-superconductor (TI-SC) heterostructure with an atomically sharp and well-controlled interface is crucial for realizing topological superconductivity and topological quantum qubit. In particular, many…

Spin-orbit interaction affects the band structure of topological insulators beyond the opening of an inverted gap in the bulk bands, and the understanding of its effects on the surface states is of primary importance to access the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Denny Puntel , Simone Peli , Wibke Bronsch , Federico Cilento , Hubert Ebert , Jürgen Braun , Fulvio Parmigiani

We study the low-energy physics of topological insulator (TI) nanoribbons proximity-coupled to s-wave superconductors (SCs) by explicitly incorporating the proximity effects that emerge at the TI-SC interface. We construct a low-energy…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-07-24 Piyapong Sitthison , Tudor D. Stanescu

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…

Superconducting-proximity topological insulators (STIs) have garnered significant research attention over the past two decades. In this Letter, we demonstrate that a low-dimensional STI in the topological-nontrivial phase (TP) exhibits an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-02 Yajiang Chen , Ke-Ji Chen , Jia-Ji Zhu , A. A. Shanenko

We present a theory of the high-spin generalization of topological insulators and their doped superconducting states. The higher-spin topological insulators involve a pair of $J=3/2$ bands with opposite parity, and are characterized by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-21 Takuto Kawakami , Tetsuya Okamura , Shingo Kobayashi , Masatoshi Sato

The concept of topological insulator (TI) has introduced a new point of view to condensed-matter physics, relating a priori unrelated subfields such as quantum (spin, anomalous) Hall effects, spin-orbit coupled materials, some classes of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-20 Yukinori Yoshimura , Koji Kobayashi , Tomi Ohtsuki , Ken-Ichiro Imura

We investigate proximity-induced mixed spin-singlet and spin-triplet superconducting state on the surface states of a topological insulator. Such hybrid structure features fundamentally distinct electron-hole excitations and resulting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Maryam Khezerlou , Hadi Goudarzi

The spin-orbit coupling can lead to exotic states of matter and unexpected behavior of the system properties. In this paper, we investigate the influence of spin-orbit coupling induced by proximity effects on a monolayer of superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-09 Andrzej Ptok , Karen Rodríguez , Konrad Jerzy Kapcia

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

We study possible superconductivity in a carrier-doped iridium oxide insulator Sr$_{2}$IrO$_{4}$ based on an effective $t_{2g}$ three-orbital Hubbard model on the square lattice with a large spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Numerically solving…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-02 Kazutaka Nishiguchi , Tomonori Shirakawa , Hiroshi Watanabe , Ryotaro Arita , Seiji Yunoki

Superconductivity in topological insulators is expected to show very unconventional features such as $p+ip$ order parameter, Majorana fermions etc. However, the intrinsic superconductivity has been observed in a very limited number of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-29 I. Pletikosic , T. Yilmaz , B. Sinkovic , A. P. Weber , G. D. Gu , T. Valla

A two-dimensional superconductor (SC) on surfaces of topological insulators (TIs) is a mixture of s-wave and helical p-wave components when induced by s-wave interactions, since spin and momentum are correlated. On the basis of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-05 Yuto Ito , Youhei Yamaji , Masatoshi Imada

Inducing superconducting correlations in magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) is emerging as a promising route toward the realization of topological superconductivity and Majorana modes. Here, we develop an analytical model for the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-04 Daniele Di Miceli , Eduárd Zsurka , Kristof Moors , Llorenç Serra , Thomas L. Schmidt

In the framework of the Dirac-Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism, we investigate the transport properties in the surface of a 3-dimensional topological insulator-based hybrid structure, where the ferromagnetic and superconducting orders are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 M. Khezerlou , H. Goudarzi

We study the proximity-induced superconducting state in a general bilayer -- conventional $s$-wave superconductor hybrid structure. For the bilayer we include a general parabolic dispersion, Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and finite layer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-03 Fariborz Parhizgar , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

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

Superconductivity in a doped topological insulator (TI) is a very interesting phenomenon and constitute a new finding of the modern day condensed matter physics. Here we have investigated the physical and transport properties of such an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-24 S. Koley , Saurabh Basu