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Magnetic impurities in $s$-wave superconductors lead to spin-polarized Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) in-gap states. Chains of magnetic impurities offer one of the most viable routes for the realization of Majorana bound states which hold a promise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Archana Mishra , Pascal Simon , Timo Hyart , Mircea Trif

A single impurity problem is investigated for multiband s-wave superconductors with different sign order parameters (+-s-wave superconductors) suggested in Fe-pnictide superconductors. Not only intraband but also interband scattering is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-08-10 Masashige Matsumoto , Mikito Koga , Hiroaki Kusunose

We study subgap states induced by a single impurity in an s-wave superconductor with suppressed pairing. For concreteness, we consider a bulk superconductor containing a normal spherical region. We find that a point impurity in this system…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-12 A. A. Bespalov

We study the effect of magnetic impurities in the d_{x^2-y^2}-wave superconducting (SC) state of the two dimensional t-J model.The spin-orbit and the spin-exchange interactions are examined by treating the impurity as a classical spin. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-31 Toshifumi Yagi , Kazuhiro Kuboki

We theoretically study the influence of the $k$-cubic Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on the correlation effects of magnetic impurities by combining the variational method and the Hirsch-Fye quantum Monte Carlo (HFQMC) simulations.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-10 Xiong-Tao Peng , Fang Lin , Liang Chen , Lin Li , Dong-Hui Xu , Jin-Hua Sun

Recent experiments on Sr_2RuO_4 have indicated the presence of linear nodes in the superconducting order parameter. Among the possible spin triplet states, 2D p-wave superconductivity with E_u symmetry appears to be inconsistent with the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Kazumi Maki , Stephan Haas

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

We study the interplay of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and strong p-wave interaction to the scattering property of spin-1/2 ultracold Fermi gases. Based on a two-channel square-well potential generating p-wave resonance, we show that the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-06-01 Xiaoling Cui

Magnetic impurities have a dramatic effect on superconductivity by breaking the time-reversal symmetry and inducing so-called Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) low energy bound states within the superconducting gap. The spatial extent of YSR states is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Shawulienu Kezilebieke , Marc Dvorak , Teemu Ojanen , Peter Liljeroth

We investigate the single and multiple defects embedded in a superconducting host, studying interplay between the proximity induced pairing and interactions. We explore influence of the spin-orbit coupling on energies, polarization and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-08 S. Glodzik , A. Kobialka , A. Gorczyca-Goraj , A. Ptok , G. Gorski , M. M. Maska , T. Domanski

Conventional superconductors disordered by magnetic impurities demonstrate physical properties drastically different from their pristine counterparts. In our previous work [Phys. Rev. B 92, 245430 (2015)] we explored spectral and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 Daniel Persson , Oleksii Shevtsov , Tomas Löfwander , Mikael Fogelström

Andreev bound states can occur at single impurities in superconductors if the impurities suppress superconductivity for a given system. In particular, well-known Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states occur at magnetic impurities in conventional s-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-30 G. A. Bobkov , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov

A magnetic atomic impurity inside a superconductor locally distorts superconductivity. They scatter Cooper pairs as a potential with broken time-reversal symmetry, what leads to localized bound states with subgap excitation energies, named…

Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states arise as sub-gap excitations of a magnetic impurity in a superconducting host. Taking into account the quantum nature of the impurity spin in a single-site approximation, we study the spectral properties of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-28 A. Skurativska , J. Ortuzar , D. Bercioux , F. S. Bergeret , M. A. Cazalilla

Magnetic impurities on superconductors induce discrete bound levels inside the superconducting gap, known as Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states. YSR levels are fully spin-polarized such that the tunneling between YSR states depends on their…

We theoretically study bound states generated by magnetic impurities within conventional $s$-wave superconductors, both analytically and numerically. In determining the effect of the hybridization of two such bound states on the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-23 Silas Hoffman , Jelena Klinovaja , Tobias Meng , Daniel Loss

We investigate the impact of a bosonic degree of freedom on Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states emerging from a magnetic impurity in a conventional superconductor. Starting from the Anderson impurity model, we predict that an additional p-wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-21 Helene Müller , Martin Eckstein , Silvia Viola Kusminskiy

Recent experimental studies have found that magnetic impurities deposited on superconducting monolayer NbSe$_2$ generate coupled Yu-Shiba-Rusinov bound states. Here we consider ferromagnetic chains of impurities which induce a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Doru Sticlet , Cristian Morari

Indirect exchange interaction between magnetic impurities in one dimensional systems is a matter of long discussions since Kittel has established that in the asymptotic limit it decays as the inverse of distance x between the impurities. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-29 Joelson F. Silva , E. Vernek

Quantum states induced by single-atomic impurities are at the frontier of physics and material science. While such states have been reported in high-temperature superconductors and dilute magnetic semiconductors, they are unexplored in…