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A current-carrying superconducting strip partly penetrated by magnetic flux and surrounded by a bulk magnet of high permeability is considered. Two types of samples are studied: those with critical current controlled by an edge barrier…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Yu. A. Genenko , A. Snezhko , H. C. Freyhardt

We investigate spin transport in diffusive graphene nanoribbons with both clean and rough zigzag edges, and long-range potential fluctuations. The long-range fields along the ribbon edges cause the local doping to come close to the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-31 Jan Bundesmann , Ming-Hao Liu , Inanc Adagideli , Klaus Richter

We study spin-dependent transport through a spin diode in the presence of spin-flip by means of reduced density matrix approach. The current polarization and the spin accumulation are computed and influence of spin-flip on the current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-13 M. Bagheri Tagani , H. Rahimpour Soleimani

A junction between two boundaries of a topological superconductor (TSC), mediated by localized edge modes of Majorana fermions, is investigated. The tunneling of fermions across the junction depends on the magnetic flux. It breaks the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-04 Igor N. Karnaukhov

We present a general theory for the equilibrium current distribution in an interacting two-dimensional electron gas subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field, and confined by a potential that varies slowly on the scale of the magnetic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Michael R. Geller , Giovanni Vignale

Periodic in time spin-Hall current and spin polarization induced by a dc electric bias has been calculated in a superconductor-normal 2DEG-superconductor (SNS) Josephson junction. We assumed that the band energies of electrons in the normal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 A. G. Mal'shukov , C. S. Chu

We study dc-transport and magnetization dynamics in a junction of arbitrary transparency consisting of two spin-singlet superconducting leads connected via a single classical spin precessing at the frequency $\Omega$. The presence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-06 S. Teber , C. Holmqvist , M. Fogelstrom

We study the evolution of averaged transconductances in three-terminal Josephson junctions when the superconducting leads are led throughout a topological phase transition from an $s$-wave to a $p$-wave (Majorana) phase by an in-plane…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-17 Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Gonzalo Usaj , Carlos A. Balseiro

The Josephson supercurrent through the hybrid Majorana--quantum dot--Majorana junction is investigated. We particularly analyze the effect of spin-selective coupling between the Majorana and quantum dot states, which emerges only in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 Luting Xu , Xin-Qi Li , Qing-Feng Sun

We propose the manipulation of Majorana edge states via hybridization and spin currents in a nanowire spin transistor. The spin transistor is based on a heterostructure nanowire comprising of semiconductors with large and small g-factors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-27 Amrit De , Alexey A. Kovalev

The presence of a Majorana bound state in condensed matter systems is often associated to a zero bias peak in conductance measurements. Here, we analyze a system were this paradigm is violated. A Majorana bound state is always present at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Christoph Fleckenstein , Felix Keidel , Bjoern Trauzettel , Niccolo Traverso Ziani

We consider theoretically tunneling characteristic of a junction between a normal metal and a chain of coupled Majorana bound states generated at crossings between topological and non-topological superconducting sections, as a result of,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Karsten Flensberg

We study switching current distributions in superconducting nanostrips using theoretical models and numerical simulations. Switching current distributions are commonly measured in experiments and may provide a window into the microscopic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-28 Robert Vedin , Jack Lidmar

Via the spin-Hall effect and its inverse, in-plane charge currents in a normal metal$-$ferromagnet (N$|$F) bilayer can be used to excite and detect magnetization dynamics in F. Using a magneto-electric circuit approach, we here consider the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Ulli Gems , Oliver Franke , Piet W. Brouwer

Charge-spin conversion phenomena such as the spin Hall effect allow for the excitation of magnons in a magnetic layer by passing an electric current in an adjacent nonmagnetic conductor. We demonstrate that this current-induced modification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Paul Noël , Richard Schlitz , Emir Karadža , Charles-Henri Lambert , Luca Nessi , Federico Binda , Pietro Gambardella

A one dimensional theory of lateral spin-polarized transport is derived from the two dimensional flow in the vertical cross section of a stack of ferromagnetic and paramagnetic layers. This takes into account the influence of the lead on…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-20 H. Dery , L. Cywinski , L. J. Sham

Two semiconducting quantum dots (QDs) coupled through a superconductor constitute a minimal realisation of a Kitaev chain with Majorana zero modes (MZMs). Such MZMs can be detected by e.g., tunneling conductance between each QD and normal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Miguel Alvarado , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Ramón Aguado , Rubén Seoane Souto

The critical current of a thin superconducting strip of width $W$ much larger than the Ginzburg-Landau coherence length $\xi$ but much smaller than the Pearl length $\Lambda = 2 \lambda^2/d$ is maximized when the strip is straight with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-03 John R. Clem , Yasunori Mawatari , G. R. Berdiyorov , F. M. Peeters

A hybrid semiconductor-superconductor nanowire on the top of a magnetic film in the stripe phase experiences a magnetic texture from the underlying fringing fields. The Zeeman interaction with the highly inhomogeneous magnetic textures…

We theoretically investigate the mapping of the supercurrent distribution in a planar superconductor-normal-superconductor junction in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field via the scanning gate microscopy technique. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 K. Kaperek , S. Heun , M. Carrega , P. Wójcik , M. P. Nowak