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In this thesis we study short Josephson junctions which include a region with Rashba spin-orbit coupling effect. Our junctions consists of two superconductors (S) and a 2-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) layer between them: S/2DEG/S…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-01 A. F. Tzortzakakis , N. Flytzanis

In this work, we present a semi-analytical expression for the temperature dependence of a spin-resolved dynamical density-density response function of massless Dirac fermions within the Random Phase Approximation. This result is crucial in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Faridi , M. Pashangpour , Reza Asgari

Employing analytical methods and quantum transport simulations we investigate the relaxation of quasiparticle spins in graphene proximitized by an $s$-wave superconductor in the presence of resonant magnetic and spin-orbit active…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Denis Kochan , Michael Barth , Andreas Costa , Klaus Richter , Jaroslav Fabian

We study the electronic contribution to the main thermoelectric properties of a molecular junction consisting of a single quantum dot coupled to graphene external leads. The system electrical conductivity (G), Seebeck coefficient ($S$), and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 S. T. Rodriguez , I. Grosu , M. Crisan , I. Tifrea

We propose a new type of the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) emerging from the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in asymmetric four-terminal electron systems. This system generates spin currents or spin voltages along the longitudinal direction parallel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 Jun Zhou , Biao Wang , Mengjie Li , Tsuneyoshi Nakayama , Baowen Li

We study theoretically the effects of interfacial Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling in superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor (S/F/S) Josephson junctions---with allowing for tunneling barriers between the layers---by solving the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-30 Andreas Costa , Petra Högl , Jaroslav Fabian

We characterize the superconducting diode effect (SDE) in two-dimensional diffusive structures with Rashba spin-orbit coupling using the quasiclassical formalism. We consider both homogeneous superconductors and Josephson junctions. In the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-04 Stefan Ilic , Pauli Virtanen , Daniel Crawford , Tero T. Heikkilä , F. Sebastian Bergeret

We study a model of a $p$-$n$ junction in single-layer graphene in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field and spin-orbit interactions. By solving the relevant quantum-mechanical problem for a potential step, we determine the exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Dario Bercioux , Alessandro De Martino

We study the effects of spin-splitting and spin-flip scattering in a superconductor (S) on the thermoelectric properties of a tunneling contact to a metallic ferromagnet (F) using the Green's function method. A giant thermopower has been…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-20 A. Rezaei , A. Kamra , P. Machon , W. Belzig

This paper provides a theoretical analysis on the effects of an external Zeeman field and Rashba spin-orbit interactions on superconductivity. We have extensively studied their influence on the superconducting transition temperature $T_c$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-12 Chen Pang , Yi Zhou

Within the Coulomb blockade regime, our study delves into the charge, spin, and thermoelectric transport characteristics in a benzene-based molecular nano-junction using the Pauli master equation and linear response theory. The charge- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Parbati Senapati , Prakash Parida

Coherent charge and heat transport through periodically driven nanodevices provide a platform for studying thermoelectric effects on the nanoscale. Here we study a junction comprising a quantum dot connected to two fermionic terminals by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-03 Debashree Chowdhury , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony

Nanographene-based magnetism at interfaces offers an avenue to designer quantum materials towards novel phases of matter and atomic-scale applications. Key to spintronics applications at the nanoscale is bistable spin-crossover which…

M\"ossbauer spectroscopy was used to probe the site specific information of the $K_{0.84}Fe_{1.99}Se_2$ superconductor. Possibility of coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism is discussed. A spin excitation gap, $\Delta E…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-04-03 Zhiwei Li , Xiaoming Ma , Hua Pang , Fashen Li

Kane and Mele predicted that in presence of spin-orbit interaction graphene realizes the quantum spin Hall state. However, exceptionally weak intrinsic spin-orbit splitting in graphene ($\approx 10^{-5}$ eV) inhibits experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-18 Gabriel Autès , Oleg V. Yazyev

We analyze the spin-orbit coupling effects in a three-degree twisted bilayer heterostructure made of graphene and an in-plane ferroelectric SnTe, with the goal of transferring the spin-orbit coupling from SnTe to graphene, via the proximity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 Marko Milivojević , Martin Gmitra , Marcin Kurpas , Ivan Štich , Jaroslav Fabian

The iron-based superconductor FeSe isovalently substituted with S displays an abundance of remarkable phenomena that have not been fully understood, at the center of which are apparent zero-energy excitations in the superconducting state in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-29 Yifu Cao , Chandan Setty , Andreas Kreisel , Laura Fanfarillo , P. J. Hirschfeld

Van der Waals interactions with transition metal dichalcogenides was shown to induce strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in graphene, offering great promises to combine large experimental flexibility of graphene with unique tuning capabilities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Qing Rao , Wun-Hao Kang , Hongxia Xue , Ziqing Ye , Xuemeng Feng , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ning Wang , Ming-Hao Liu , Dong-Keun Ki

We theoretically investigate spin transport at the interface between the ferromagnetic insulator(FI) and a superconductor(SC). Considering a simple FI-SC interface model, we derive formulas for the spin current and spin-current noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 T. Kato , Y. Ohnuma , M. Matsuo , J. Rech , T. Jonckheere , T. Martin

Using analytical arguments and the numerical renormalization group method we investigate the spin-thermopower of a quantum dot in a magnetic field. In the particle-hole symmetric situation the temperature difference applied across the dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-24 Tomaz Rejec , Rok Zitko , Jernej Mravlje , Anton Ramsak