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Recently, topological superconductors have emerged as a pivotal frontier in condensed matter physics, owing to the exotic properties of Majorana quasiparticles residing on edges, surfaces, and vortex cores. In this work, we investigate a…

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In this study, we propose an alternative route to achieving topological superconductivity (TSC). Our approach applies to a new class of correlated noncentrosymmetric materials that host two spin-split Fermi surfaces with identical spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-28 Lichuan Wang , Ran Wang , Xinliang Huang , Xianxin Wu , Ning Hao

We consider a Rashba nanowire with proximity gap which can be brought into the topological phase by tuning external magnetic field or chemical potential. We study spin and charge of the bulk quasiparticle states when passing through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Paweł Szumniak , Denis Chevallier , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We present a theory of orbital magnetic dynamics for a chiral p-wave superconductor with broken time-reversal symmetry. In contrast to the common Landau-Lifshitz theory for spin ferromagnets, the case of orbital magnetism cannot be…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 V. Braude , E. B. Sonin

We explore topological electronic structure of magnetic phases in a multi-orbital Hubbard model with spin-orbit interactions. To account for more general antiferromagnetic orders that go beyond the collinear N\'eel order, two different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-08 Ying-Lin Li , Po-Hao Chou , Chung-Yu Mou

Coulomb interaction among electrons is found to have profound effects on the electronic properties of anisotropic quantum dots in a perpendicular external magnetic field, and in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. This is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Siranush Avetisyan , Pekka Pietiläinen , Tapash Chakraborty

We develop a symmetry-adapted multipolar $\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{p}$ theory close to the bulk $\Gamma$ point for time-reversal-symmetric, noncentrosymmetric $C_{3v}$ crystals in the strong atomic spin-orbit-coupling ($jj$-coupling) limit.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Masoud Bahari , Kristian Mæland , Carsten Timm , Björn Trauzettel

Electronic bound states around charged impurities in two-dimensional systems with structural inversion asymmetry can be described in terms of a two-dimensional hydrogen atom in the presence of a Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Here, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Grimaldi

Time-reversal-invariant topological superconductors have a full paring gap in the bulk and gapless Majorana states at the edge or on the surface. Here, we theoretically propose topological superconductivity in a doped quantum spin Hall…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-08-08 Jing Wang , Yong Xu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

A two-dimensional topologically nontrivial state of noninteracting electrons, such as the surface state of a three-dimensional topological insulator, is predicted to realize a topological superconductor when proximity-coupled to an ordinary…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-07 Koji Kudo , Ryota Nakai , Hiroki Isobe , J. K. Jain , Kentaro Nomura

The chiral p-wave superconducting state is comprised of spin triplet Cooper pairs carrying a finite orbital angular momentum. For the case of a periodic lattice, calculating the net magnetisation arising from this orbital component presents…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-04-15 Joshua Robbins , James F. Annett , Martin Gradhand

Multi-component spin-singlet superconductors with competing 0- and $\pi$-pairing couplings, as in $s_{++}$ and $s_{\pm}$ phases, are close to instabilities with a spontaneous breaking of time-reversal symmetry. We demonstrate that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-29 Yuriy Yerin , Stefan-Ludwig Drechsler , Mario Cuoco , Caterina Petrillo

This work reports the theoretical investigation into the mechanism underpinning the anomalous Josephson effect. The prototypical system we study is a ballistic two-dimensional junction containing a two-dimensional Rashba spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Ross D. Monaghan , Giuseppe C. Tettamanzi

We employ a path integral real time approach to compute the DC conductance and spin polarization for electrons transported across a ballistic Quantum Ring with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. We use a piecewise semiclassical approximation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-23 P. Lucignano , D. Giuliano , A. Tagliacozzo

We study a quantum ladder of interacting fermions with coupled s and p orbitals. Such a model describes dipolar molecules or atoms loaded into a double-well optical lattice, dipole moments being aligned by an external field. The two orbital…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-06-06 Xiaopeng Li , W. Vincent Liu

We calculate the superconducting $T_c$ for a system which experiences Rashba spin-orbit interactions. Contrary to the usual case where the electron-electron interaction is assumed to be wave vector-independent, where superconductivity is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-09-05 Joel Hutchinson , J. E. Hirsch , Frank Marsiglio

We theoretically investigate the phase transition from a non-trivial topological $p$-wave superconductor to a trivial $s$-wave like superconducting phase through a gapless phase, driven by different magnetic textures as an one-dimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-08 Pritam Chatterjee , Saurabh Pradhan , Ashis K. Nandy , Arijit Saha

We study the Josephson effect between a conventional s-wave superconductor and a non-centrosymmetric superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Rashba spin-orbit coupling affects the Josephson pair tunneling in a characteristic way.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-06-06 N. Hayashi , C. Iniotakis , M. Machida , M. Sigrist

In this erratum, we revisit the issue of bulk-disorder on proposals to realize an effective p+ip superconductor from spin-orbit coupled materials. Contrary to the claim in [Phys. Rev. B 83, 184520 (2011)], we show that the pair breaking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Andrew C. Potter , Patrick A. Lee

Topological phases of matter are among the most intriguing research directions in Condensed Matter Physics. It is known that superconductivity induced on a topological insulator's surface can lead to exotic Majorana modes, the main…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-20 J. Herbrych , M. Środa , G. Alvarez , M. Mierzejewski , E. Dagotto