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We report on the observation on proximity-induced superconductivity in the topological insulator BiSbTeSe2 coupled to a disordered superconductor, amorphous indium oxide (a-InO). Resistance temperature measurements reveal superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Jagadis Prasad Nayak , Aviad Frydman , Gopi Nath Daptary

In this communication we consider generalities of the proximity effect in a contact between a conventional $s$-wave superconductor (S) nano-island and a thin film of a topological insulator (TI). A local hybridization coupling mechanism is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-17 Nicholas Sedlmayr , Alex Levchenko

We formulate a continuum model to study the low-energy electronic structure of heterostructures formed by graphene on a strong three-dimensional topological insulator (TI) for the case of both commensurate and incommensurate stacking. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Junhua Zhang , C. Triola , E. Rossi

Proximity effects at superconducting interfaces, between different superconductors (S-S') or between superconductors and normal metals (S-N), are fundamental to the performance of superconducting electronics, yet only few experiments have…

Inducing superconducting correlations in magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) is emerging as a promising route toward the realization of topological superconductivity and Majorana modes. Here, we develop an analytical model for the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-04 Daniele Di Miceli , Eduárd Zsurka , Kristof Moors , Llorenç Serra , Thomas L. Schmidt

We investigate proximity effects in a correlated heterostructure of a two-dimensional Mott insulator (MI) and a topological insulator (TI) by employing inhomogeneous dynamical mean-field theory. We show that the edge state of the TI induces…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 Suguru Ueda , Norio Kawakami , Manfred Sigrist

Bi$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ and Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$ are well known 3D-topological insulators. Films made of these materials exhibit metal-like surface states with a Dirac dispersion and possess high mobility. The high mobility metal-like surface states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Parijat Sengupta , Tillmann Kubis , Yaohua Tan , Gerhard Klimeck

As a promising candidate system to realize topological superconductivity, the system of a 3D topological insulator (TI) grown on top of the s-wave superconductor has been extensively studied. To access the topological superconductivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Youngseok Kim , Timothy M. Philip , Moon Jip Park , Matthew J. Gilbert

In a mesoscopic metal in proximity with a superconductor, the electronic conductance is enhanced in a very energy-sensitive way. In this paper, we discuss the spectral conductance of a proximity superconductor from both the theoretical and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Courtois , P. Charlat , Ph. Gandit , D. Mailly , B. Pannetier

We investigate the proximity effect in a heterostructure of the topological insulator (TI) \BiSe\ deposited on the HTSC material BSCCO. The latter is described by the one-band Hubbard model and is treated with cluster dynamical mean field…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-04 Xiancong Lu , David Sénéchal

Nanofabrication of topological insulator (TI) devices is essential for accessing edge and interface states, but conventional lithography and etching compromise the atomically clean surfaces required for scanning tunneling microscopy and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-24 Adrian Greichgauer , Roozbeh Yazdanpanah , Alexey Taskin , Oliver Breunig , Yoichi Ando , Jens Brede

We consider an isolated vortex in the two-dimensional proximity-induced superconducting state formed at the interface of a three-dimensional strong topological insulator (TI) and an s-wave superconductor (sSC). Prior calculations of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-09 Adam C. Durst

We performed the local spectroscopy of a Normal-metal--Superconductor (N-S) junction with the help of a very low temperature (60 mK) Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM). The spatial dependence of the local density of states was probed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Moussy , H. Courtois , B. Pannetier

A heterostructure consisting of a topological insulator (TI) nanowire brought into proximity with a superconducting layer provides a promising route to achieve topological superconductivity and associated Majorana bound states (MBSs). Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Henry F. Legg , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

Proximity-induced superconductivity at topological insulator-superconductor (TI-SC) interfaces offers a promising route to topological superconductivity with Majorana boundary modes. However, probing the interfacial superconductivity at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Myungjun Kang , Yogeshwar Prasad , Nikhil Danny Babu , Rasoul Ghadimi , Jae Hoon Kim , Sangmo Cheon

Typically, topological superconductivity is reachable via proximity effect by a direct deposition of superconductor (S) on top of a topological insulator (TI) surface. Here we observed and analyzed the double critical current in the…

Topological insulators (TIs) are bulk insulators that possess robust helical conducting states along their interfaces with conventional insulators. A tremendous research effort has recently been devoted to TI-based heterostructures, in…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-17 Xiaoguang Li , Gufeng Zhang , Guangfen Wu , Hua Chen , Dimitrie Culcer , Zhenyu Zhang

We theoretically study the proximity effect and the inverse proximity effect in a topological insulator/iron-based superconductor heterostructure based on the microscopic model. The superconducting order parameter is self-consistently…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-09 Qi-Guang Zhu , Tao Zhou

Asymmetric electrical conductance is theoretically demonstrated on the surface of a topological insulator (TI) in the limit of infinitesimally small forward and reverse biases between two spin selective electrodes. The discontinuous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 Xiaopeng Duan , Xi-Lai Li , Yuriy G. Semenov , Ki Wook Kim

The combination of superconductivity and spin-momentum locking at the interface between an s-wave superconductor and a three-dimensional topological insulator (3D-TI) is predicted to generate exotic p-wave topological superconducting phases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-19 Abhishek Banerjee , Ananthesh Sundaresh , R. Ganesan , P. S. Anil Kumar