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Among the broad spectrum of systems predicted to exhibit topological superconductivity and Majorana fermions, one-dimensional wires with strong spin-orbit coupling provide one of the most promising experimental candidates. Here we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-07-15 E. M. Stoudenmire , Jason Alicea , Oleg A. Starykh , Matthew P. A. Fisher

Based on the extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk formalism, the tunneling conductance characteristics of a planar junction between a ferromagnet and a noncentrosymmetric superconductor are studied. The effects of the Rashba spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 S. Wu , K. V. Samokhin

A spin-U(1)-symmetry protected momentum-dependent integer-$Z$-valued topological invariant is proposed to time-reversal-invariant (TRI) superconductivity (SC) whose nonzero value will lead to exactly flat surface band(s). The theory is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-20 Cheng-Cheng Liu , Chen Lu , Li-Da Zhang , Xianxin Wu , Chen Fang , Fan Yang

The classification of electron systems according to their topology has been at the forefront of condensed matter research in recent years. It has been found that systems of the same symmetry, previously thought of as equivalent, may in fact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-09 Jan Borchmann , Aaron Farrell , Shunji Matsuura , T. Pereg-Barnea

We have studied the effect of spin-orbital coupling (SOC) on electronic transport properties of the thermoelectric material $\beta$-K$_{2}$Bi$_{8}$Se$_{13}$ via magnetoresistance (MR) measurements. We found that the strong SOC in this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-18 J. Hu , J. Y. Liu , Z. Q. Mao

We study the zero-temperature transport properties of one-dimensional normal-superconductor (NS) junctions with topological superconductors across their topological transitions. Working within the Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk (BTK) formalism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 F. Setiawan , P. M. R. Brydon , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

Recent years have seen many examples of how the strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) present in iridates can stabilize new emergent states that are difficult or impossible to realize in more conventional materials. In this review we outline a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-10 Lin Hao , D. Meyers , M. P. M. Dean , Jian Liu

The electronic band structure of monolayer phosphorene is thoroughly studied by considering the presence of spin-orbit interaction. We employ a multiorbital Slater-Koster tight-binding approach to derive effective k.p-type Hamiltonians that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Mayra Peralta , Dennis A. Freire , Rafael González-Hernández , Francisco Mireles

We study the tunneling conductance of a clean normal metal/chiral p-wave superconductor junction using the extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk formalism. It is shown that the spin-orbit coupling of the Rashba type that is present near the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-11-20 S. Wu , K. V. Samokhin

The experimental advances in realizing artificial spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and non-Hermitian potentials in ultracold atomic system open a new avenue for exploring their significant roles in quantum many-body physics. Here, we investigate a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-12 Pingcheng Zhu , Lihong Zhou , Jianxin Zhong

We introduce a discrete model for binary spin-orbit-coupled (SOC) Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) trapped in a deep one-dimensional optical lattice. Two different types of the couplings are considered, with spatial derivatives acting inside…

This review elaborates pedagogically on the fundamental concept, basic theory, expected properties, and materials realizations of topological superconductors. The relation between topological superconductivity and Majorana fermions are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-18 Masatoshi Sato , Yoichi Ando

We investigate the interplay of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and electronic correlations in Sr2RuO4 using dynamical mean-field theory. We find that SOC does not affect the correlation-induced renormalizations, which validates the Hund's metal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-28 Minjae Kim , Jernej Mravlje , Michel Ferrero , Olivier Parcollet , Antoine Georges

There have been several proposals for platforms sustaining topological superconductivity in high temperature superconductors, in order to make use of the larger superconducting gap and the expected robustness of Majorana zero modes towards…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-29 Mainak Pal , Andreas Kreisel , P. J. Hirschfeld

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

Spin-orbit coupled (SOC) light fields with spatially inhomogeneous polarization have attracted increasing research interest within the optical community. In particular, owing to their spin-dependent phase and spatial structures, many…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-21 Hai-Jun Wu , Zhi-Yuan Zhou , Wei Gao , Bao-Sen Shi , Zhi-Han Zhu

We investigate topological superconductivity in the Rashba-Hubbard model, describing heavy-atom superlattice and van der Waals materials with broken inversion. We focus in particular on fillings close to the van Hove singularities, where a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-26 Pietro M. Bonetti , Debmalya Chakraborty , Xianxin Wu , Andreas P. Schnyder

This study investigates the interband conductivity for nodal line semimetals (NLSMs) in the presence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) beyond the clean limit, where the disorder reshapes the transport properties. The SOC breaks spin degeneracy,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Vivek Pandey , Monu , Pankaj Bhalla

Spin injection is a powerful experimental probe into a wealth of nonequilibrium spin-dependent phenomena displayed by materials with spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Here, we develop a theory of coupled spin-charge diffusive transport in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Yu-Hsuan Lin , Chunli Huang , Manuel Offidani , Aires Ferreira , Miguel A. Cazalilla

Recently, superconductivity has been observed in twisted WSe$_2$ moir\'{e} structures (Xia et al., Nature 2024; Guo et al., Nature 2025). Its transition temperature is high, reaching a few percent of the Fermi temperature scale. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-02 Fang Xie , Lei Chen , Shouvik Sur , Yuan Fang , Jennifer Cano , Qimiao Si