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Magnetic impurities on a superconductor induce sub-gap Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) bound states, localized at the impurity site and fading away from it for distances up to several nanometers. In this article, we present a theoretical method to…

Magnetic superconductors define a broad class of strongly correlated materials in which superconductivity may coexist with either localized or itinerant long-range magnetic order. In this work we consider a multiband model of a disordered…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-02 Maxim Dzero , Alex Levchenko

We investigate the persistent currents, spin-polarized local density of states, and spectral functions of topological superconductors constructed by placing ferromagnetic impurities on top of an s-wave superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit…

We study the effect of strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on bound states induced by impurities in superconductors. The presence of spin-orbit coupling breaks the $\mathbb{SU}(2)$-spin symmetry and causes the superconducting order parameter…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-15 Younghyun Kim , Junhua Zhang , E. Rossi , Roman M. Lutchyn

We theoretically study the spectrum induced by one and two magnetic impurities near the boundary of a one-dimensional nanowire in proximity to a conventional $s$-wave superconductor and extract the ground state magnetic configuration. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Oindrila Deb , Silas Hoffman , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We revisit certain aspects of a problem concerning the influence of carrier scattering induced by magnetic impurities in metals on their superconducting properties. Superconductivity is assumed to be driven by strong electron-phonon…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-28 Samuel Awelewa , Maxim Dzero

The microscopic mechanism of circular currents induced in the vicinity of a non-magnetic impurity is analyzed for the (time-reversal symmetry breaking) chiral superconducting state ${\bf d}({\bf k}) = \hat{{\bf z}} (k_x \pm i k_y)$ which is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Yukihiro Okuno , Masashige Matsumoto , Mangred Sigrist

A magnetic impurity on a superconductor induces Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) bound states, detected by tunneling spectroscopy as long-lived quasiparticle excitations inside the superconducting gap. Coupled YSR states constitute basic elements to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-12 Carmen Rubio-Verdú , Javier Zaldívar , Rok Žitko , Jose Ignacio Pascual

An unusual form of superconductivity, called Ising superconductivity, has recently been uncovered in mono- and few-layered transition metal dichalcogenides. This 2D superconducting state is characterized by the so-called Ising spin-orbit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-20 Gargee Sharma , Sumanta Tewari

We study theoretically the dynamics of a Shiba state forming around precessing classical spin in an s-wave superconductor. Utilizing a rotating wave description for the precessing magnetic impurity, we find the resulting Shiba bound state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 V. Kaladzhyan , S. Hoffman , M. Trif

An impurity hosting a magnetic moment coupled to a conventional $s$-wave superconductor gives rise to so-called Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states with energies inside the superconducting gap. Depending on the coupling between the impurity and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-10 Andreas Theiler , Christian R. Ast , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Chiral superconductors are expected to carry a spontaneous, chiral and perpetual current along the sample edge. However, despite the availability of several candidate materials, such a current has not been observed in experiments. In this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-09 Madhuparna Karmakar , R. Ganesh

In superconductors, magnetic impurities induce a pair-breaking potential for Cooper pairs, which locally affects the Bogoliubov quasiparticles and gives rise to Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR or Shiba, in short) bound states in the density of states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Benjamin W. Heinrich , Jose I. Pascual , Katharina J. Franke

Spin current is a central theme in spintronics, and its generation is a keen issue. The spin-polarized current injection from the ferromagnet, spin battery, and spin Hall effect have been used to generate spin current, but Ohmic currents in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-05 James Jun He , Kanta Hiroki , Keita Hamamoto , Naoto Nagaosa

We study how impurities influence the current-induced dynamics of magnetic Skyrmions moving in a racetrack geometry. For this, we solve numerically the generalized Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation extended by the current-induced spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 M. Stier , R. Strobel , W. Häusler , M. Thorwart

At a superconductor interface with a ferromagnetic insulator (FI), the FI acts to induce a local exchange field within the S layer, which in the presence of spin-orbit interaction promotes a phase modulated superconducting state. Here we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-08 J. W. A. Robinson , A. V. Samokhvalov , A. I. Buzdin

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…

We study the role of impurities in a two-band superconductor, and elucidate the nature of the recently predicted transition from s_{+-} state to s_{++} state induced by interband impurity scattering. Using a Ginzburg-Landau theory, derived…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-04-14 Valentin Stanev , Alexei E. Koshelev

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 a chain of magnetic moments exchange coupled to a conventional three dimensional superconductor. In the normal state the chain orders into a collinear configuration, while in the superconducting phase we find that ferromagnetism is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-27 M. Schecter , K. Flensberg , M. H. Christensen , B. M. Andersen , J. Paaske