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Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Encinosa , M. Jack

We report a theoretical study on the phase transition between superconducting states with and without spontaneous surface current. The phase transition takes place due to the formation of surface Andreev bound states in unconventional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-07 Nobumi Miyawaki , Seiji Higashitani

We study a simple microscopic model for thin, ferromagnetic, metallic layers on semi-infinite bulk superconductor. We find that for certain values of the exchange spliting, on the ferromagnetic side, the ground states of such structures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Krawiec , B. L. Gyorffy , J. F. Annett

Employing a Keldysh-Eilenberger technique, we theoretically study the generation of a sponta- neous supercurrent and the appearance of the ${\phi}$0 phase shift parallel to uniformly in-plane mag- netized superconducting interfaces made of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-20 Mohammad Alidoust , Hossein Hamzehpour

Chiral superconductors support chiral edge modes and potentially spontaneous edge currents at their boundaries. Motivated by the putative multiband chiral p-wave superconductor Sr$_2$RuO$_4$, we study the influence of the interference…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-12-07 Jia-Long Zhang , Wen Huang , Manfred Sigrist , Dao-Xin Yao

We analyze the presence of non-reciprocal critical currents, the so-called superconducting diode effect, in chiral superconductors within a generalized Ginzburg-Landau framework. After deriving its key symmetry conditions we illustrate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-13 Bastian Zinkl , Keita Hamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

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

The induction of an s-wave component in a d-wave superconductor is considered. Near the {110}-oriented edges of such a sample, the induced s-wave order parameter together with d-wave component forms a complex combination d+e^{i\phi} s,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Jian-Xin Zhu , C. S. Ting

We analyze edge currents and edge bands at the surface of a time-reversal symmetry breaking d_{x^2-y^2}+id_{xy} superconductor. We show that the currents have large Friedel oscillations with two interfering frequencies: \sqrt{2}k_F from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Bernd Braunecker , Patrick A. Lee , Ziqiang Wang

We use a microscopic model to calculate properties of the supercurrent carried by chiral edge states of a quantum Hall weak link. This "chiral" supercurrent is qualitatively distinct from the usual Josephson supercurrent in that it cannot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Yahya Alavirad , Junhyun Lee , Ze-Xun Lin , Jay D. Sau

In this work we present a comprehensive study of the spontaneous currents in time-reversal symmetry breaking (TRSB) multi-component superconductors with cubic crystalline symmetry. We argue, not limiting to cubic lattices, that spontaneous…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-07-17 Jia-Long Zhang , Wen Huang , Dao-Xin Yao

We find proximity-induced spontaneous spin and electric surface currents, at all temperatures below the superconducting T_c, in an isotropic s-wave superconductor deposited with a thin ferromagnetic metal layer with spin-orbit interaction.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 I. V. Bobkova , Yu. S. Barash

We investigate the effect of edges on the intrinsic electron-electron interaction driven d-wave superconducting state in graphene doped close to the van Hove singularity. While the bulk is in a chiral $d_{x^2-y^2}+id_{xy}$ state, the order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-20 Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We demonstrate that two-dimensional chiral superconductors on curved surfaces spontaneously develop magnetic flux. This geometric Meissner effect provides an unequivocal signature of chiral super- conductivity, which could be observed in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-06 T. Kvorning , T. H. Hansson , A. Quelle , C. Morais Smith

We present the results of theoretical study of surface state properties in a two-dimensional model for triplet $p$-wave superconductors. We derive boundary conditions for Eilenberger equations at rough interfaces and develop the approach…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 S. V. Bakurskiy , A. A. Golubov , M. Yu. Kupriyanov , K. Yada , Y. Tanaka

We study $d$-wave superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene and reveal phenomena that arise due to the moir\'e superlattice. In the $d$-wave pairing, the relative motion (RM) of two electrons in a Cooper pair can have either $d+id$ or…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-09 Fengcheng Wu

A heterostructure consisting of a magnetic Weyl semimetal and a conventional superconductor exhibits an equilibrium current parallel to the superconductor interface and perpendicular to the magnetization. Analyzing a minimal model, which as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Kevin A. Madsen , Piet W. Brouwer , Maxim Breitkreiz

It is well known that a k-dimensional smooth surface in a Euclidean space cannot be tangent to a non-involutive distribution of k-dimensional planes. In this paper we discuss the extension of this statement to weaker notions of surfaces,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Giovanni Alberti , Annalisa Massaccesi , Eugene Stepanov

We study surface zero-energy flat bands in three-dimensional chiral superconductors with $p_z (p_x +ip_y)^{\nu}$-wave pairing symmetry ($\nu$ is a nonzero integer), based on topological numbers and tunneling conductance. It is shown that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-12-31 Shingo Kobayashi , Yukio Tanaka , Masatoshi Sato

We investigate the Josephson critical current $I_c(\Phi)$ of a wide superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) junction as a function of the magnetic flux $\Phi$ threading it. Electronic trajectories reflected from the side edges…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-05-31 Hendrik Meier , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , Leonid I. Glazman