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Motivated by experimental reports on chirality induced spin selectivity, we investigate a minimal model that allows us to calculate the charge and spin conductances through helical molecules analytically. The spin-orbit interaction is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Richard Korytár , Jan M. van Ruitenbeek , Ferdinand Evers

The intrinsic spin-Hall effect on spin accumulation and electric conductance in a diffusive regime of a 2D electron gas has been studied for a 2D strip of a finite width. It is shown that the spin polarization near the flanks of the strip,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. G. Mal'shukov , L. Y. Wang , C. S. Chu , K. A. Chao

We study the effects of Majorana modes and interactions between electrons on transport in a one-dimensional system with a junction of three p-wave superconductors (SCs) which are connected to normal metal leads. For sufficiently long SCs,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Oindrila Deb , Manisha Thakurathi , Diptiman Sen

We study the Josephson current through a ballistic normal metal layer of thickness $D$ on which two superconducting electrodes are deposited within a distance $L$ of each other. In the presence of an ({\it in-layer}) magnetic field we find…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Mohammadkhani , M. Zareyan , Ya. M. Blanter

A planar Josephson junction with a normal metal attached on its top surface will form a hollow nanowire structure due to its three dimensional nature. In such hollow nanowire structure, the magnetic flux induced by a small magnetic field…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-12-25 Jie Liu , Yijia Wu , Qing-Feng Sun , X. C. Xie

We propose the spin swapping effect for an exchange magnon spin current in a perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnetic medium with in plane anisotropy on the surface. The excitation of a magnon current flowing along an in-plane direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 Shuting Cui , Peng Yan , Wei Luo , Xiaofei Yang , Yue Zhang

We report measurements of magnetic switching and steady-state magnetic precession driven by spin-polarized currents in nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions with low-resistance, < 5 Ohm-micron-squared, barriers. The current densities required…

We present calculations of Majorana edge modes in cylindrical nanowires of a semiconductor material with proximity-induced superconductivity. We consider a Rashba field along the transverse direction and an applied magnetic field in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-20 Jong Soo Lim , Rosa López , Llorenç Serra

We study a planar Josephson junction under an applied DC voltage bias in the presence of an in-plane magnetic field. Upon tuning the bias voltage across the junction, $V_{{\rm J}}$, the two ends of the junction are shown to simultaneously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Changnan Peng , Arbel Haim , Torsten Karzig , Yang Peng , Gil Refael

The spin-orbit interaction is frequently the mechanism by which spin and charge are coupled for spintronic applications. The discovery of spin, a century ago, relied on spin-charge coupling by a magnetic field gradient; this mechanism has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Nicholas J. Harmon , Emma Z. Kurth , Dana Coleman , Lana Flanigan

We consider the one-dimensional (1D) topological superconductor that may form in a planar superconductor-metal-superconductor Josephson junction in which the metal is is subjected to spin orbit coupling and to an in-plane magnetic field.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-03-27 Ady Stern , Erez Berg

We investigate here how the current flows over a bilayer graphene in the presence of an external electric field perpendicularly applied (biased bilayer). Charge density polarization between layers in these systems is known to create a layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-07 C. J. Páez , D. A. Bahamon , Ana L. C. Pereira

We show that a magnetic strip on top of a superconducting strip magnetized in a specified direction may considerably enhance the critical current in the sample. At fixed magnetization of the magnet we observed diode effect - the value of…

We investigate quantum transport through a quantum dot connected to source and drain leads and side-coupled to a topological superconducting nanowire (Kitaev chain) sustaining Majorana end modes. Using a recursive Green's function approach,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-06 E. Vernek , P. H. Penteado , A. C. Seridonio , J. C. Egues

A semiconducting nanowire proximitized by an $s$-wave superconductor can be tuned into a topological state by an applied magnetic field. This quantum phase transition is marked by the emergence of Majorana zero modes at the ends of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Chaitanya Murthy , Vladislav D. Kurilovich , Pavel D. Kurilovich , Bernard van Heck , Leonid I. Glazman , Chetan Nayak

Border indentations in non-linear conductors, such as superconducting thin films in the creep regime, alter the distribution of currents and magnetic fields near and far from the indentation. One of such disturbances are the discontinuity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-01-11 Jonathan I. Avila , Benoit Vanderheyden , Alejandro V. Silhanek , Sorin Melinte

We obtain an almost complete understanding of the mean-field phase diagram of the two-dimensional Hubbard model on a square lattice with a sizable next-nearest neighbor hopping and a moderate interaction strength. In particular, we clarify…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-02 Robin Scholle , Walter Metzner , Demetrio Vilardi , Pietro M. Bonetti

We study a disordered superconducting nanowire, with broken time-reversal and spin-rotational symmetry, which can be driven into a topological phase with end Majorana bound states by an externally applied magnetic field. As a function of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-22 Benjamin M. Fregoso , Alejandro M. Lobos , S. Das Sarma

The spin transfer switching current distribution within a cell was studied in magnetic tunnel junction based structures having alumina barriers with resistance-area product (RA) of 10 to 30 Ohm-um2 and tunneling magneto-resistance (TMR) of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Mahendra Pakala , Yiming Huai , Thierry Valet , Yunfei Ding , Zhitao Diao

We investigate the subgap spectrum and transport properties of the quantum dot placed on interface between metallic and superconducting leads and additionally side-coupled to the edge of topological superconducting (TS) chain, hosting the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-02 J. Baranski , A. Kobialka , T. Domanski
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