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Twin boundaries are generic crystalline defects in noncentrosymmetric crystal structures. We study theoretically twin boundaries in time-reversal symmetric noncentrosymmetric superconductors that admit parity-mixed Cooper pairing. Twin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-06-25 Emiko Arahata , Titus Neupert , Manfred Sigrist

We investigate spin transport by thermally excited spin waves in an antiferromagnetic insulator. Starting from a stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert phenomenology, we obtain the out-of-equilibrium spin-wave properties. In linear response to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Scott A. Bender , Hans Skarsvåg , Arne Brataas , Rembert A. Duine

We present the exact solution of a one-dimensional model of a spin-gapped correlated electron system with hybridization impurities exhibiting both magnetic and mixed-valence properties. The host supports superconducting fluctuations, with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 A. A. Zvyagin , H. Johannesson

We investigate the effect of spin orbit coupling on proximity induced superconductivity in a normal metal attached to a superconductor. Specifically, we consider a heterostructure where the presence of interfaces gives rise to a Rashba spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-30 Vivek Mishra , Yu Li , Fu-Chun Zhang , Stefan Kirchner

Fundamental symmetry breaking and relativistic spin-orbit coupling give rise to fascinating phenomena in quantum materials. Of particular interest are the interfaces between ferromagnets and common s-wave superconductors, where the emergent…

In the topological phase of spin-orbit coupled nanowires Majorana bound states are known to localize at the nanowire edges and to exhibit a spin density orthogonal to both the magnetic field and the spin-orbit field. By investigating a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 Lorenzo Rossi , Fabrizio Dolcini , Fausto Rossi

We show theoretically that specular Andreev reflection occurs stably at altermagnet--superconductor interfaces, which is a phenomenon that has previously been predicted only in a limited range of materials, such as Dirac/Weyl materials with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-09 Yutaro Nagae , Andreas P. Schnyder , Satoshi Ikegaya

In this paper, we introduce a concise theoretical framework for the equilibrium three-terminal Josephson effect in spin-orbit-interacting systems, inspired by recent experiments on an InAs/Al heterostructure [Phys. Rev. X 14, 031024…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Kiryl Piasotski , Aleksandr Svetogorov , Wolfgang Belzig , Mikhail Pletyukhov

Sub-gap conductance at a large area junction with a rough interface of a ferromagnet and a high-T$_{C}$ superconductor is superimposed by multiple peaks which is not expected from an ideal point contact Andreev reflection process. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-03-25 N. Ghosh , H. Schmidt , M. Grundmann

In modern experiments with hybrid superconducting (SC)/semiconducting nanowires the presence of zero-energy Andreev bound states (ABSs), characterized by a partial overlap of the Majorana wave functions, is a common problem that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 S. V. Aksenov

We investigate theoretically the non-local conductance through a superconducting wire in tunnel contact with normal and ferromagnetic leads. In the presence of an in-plane magnetic field, the superconducting density of states is spin-split,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-13 Tatiana Krishtop , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer

We consider the spin-orbit-induced spin Hall effect and spin swapping in diffusive superconductors. By employing the non-equilibrium Keldysh Green's function technique in the quasiclassical approximation, we derive coupled transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Camilla Espedal , Peter Lange , Severin Sadjina , A. G. Mal'shukov , Arne Brataas

Mesoscopic point contacts between elemental metals and the topological 3D Dirac semimetal Cd$_3$As$_2$ have been recently shown to be superconducting with unconventional pairing while Cd$_3$As$_2$ itself does not superconduct. Here we show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-30 Leena Aggarwal , Sirshendu Gayen , Shekhar Das , Gohil S. Thakur , Ashok K. Ganguli , Goutam Sheet

Superconductor-Ferromagnet (SF) heterostructures are of interest due to numerous phenomena related to the spin-dependent interaction of Cooper pairs with the magnetization. Here we address the effects of a magnetic insulator on the density…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-18 Wolfgang Belzig , Detlef Beckmann

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

In a magnetic multilayer, the spin transfer between localized magnetization dynamics and itinerant conduction spin arises from the interaction between a normal metal and an adjacent ferromagnetic layer. The spin-mixing conductance then…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-04 Adam B. Cahaya , Rico M. Sitorus , Anugrah Azhar , Ahmad R. T. Nugraha , Muhammad Aziz Majidi

Spin relaxation in the impurity band of a 2D semiconductor with spin-split spectrum in the external magnetic field is considered. Several mechanisms of spin relaxation are shown to be relevant. The first one is attributed to phonon-assisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ilya Lyubinskiy

We studied the diffusion and the relaxation of the polarized quasiparticle spins in superconductors. To that end, quasiparticles of polarized spins were injected through an interface of a mesoscopic superconducting Al wire in proximity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-28 Yun-Sok Shin , Hu-Jong Lee , Hyun-Woo Lee

We investigate electron interferometry of edge states in Topological Insulators. We show that, when inter-boundary coupling is induced at two quantum point contacts of a four terminal setup, both Fabry-P\'erot-like and Aharonov-Bohm-like…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-16 Fabrizio Dolcini

Transport in strongly interacting Fermi gases provides a window into the non-equilibrium behavior of strongly correlated fermions. In particular, the interface between a strongly polarized normal gas and a weakly polarized superfluid at…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-07-13 Ding Zhang , Ariel T. Sommer