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We propose a tunable optical setup to engineer topologically nontrivial flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene under circularly polarized light. Using both analytical and numerical calculations, we demonstrate that nearly flat bands can be…

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We provide a theory of laser-induced interaction between spins localized by impurity centers in a semiconductor host. By solving exactly the problem of two localized spins interacting with one itinerant exciton, an analytical expression for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 C. Piermarocchi , G. F. Quinteiro

Heavy metals, such as Au, Ag, and Pb, often have sharp surface states that are split by strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The strong spin-orbit coupling and two-dimensional nature of these surface states make them ideal platforms for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-13 Andrew C. Potter , Patrick A. Lee

Using the Sierpinski gasket (triangle) and carpet (square) lattices as examples, we theoretically study the properties of fractal superconductors. For that, we focus on the phenomenon of $s$-wave superconductivity in the Hubbard model with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-02 Askar A. Iliasov , Robert Canyellas , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Andrey A. Bagrov

We investigate laser-induced torques in magnetically non-collinear ferromagnets with a spin-spiral magnetic structure using \textit{ab-initio} calculations. Since spin-spirals may be used to approximate the magnetization gradients locally…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-04 Frank Freimuth , Yuriy Mokrousov , Stefan Blügel

Interfacing superconductors with magnetic or topological materials offers a playground where novel phenomena like topological superconductivity, Majorana zero modes, or superconducting spintronics are emerging. In this work, we discuss…

Motivated by the quest for experimentally accessible dynamical probes of Floquet topological insulators, we formulate the linear response theory of a periodically driven system. We illustrate the applications of this formalism by giving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Abhishek Kumar , M. Rodriguez-Vega , T. Pereg-Barnea , B. Seradjeh

Phase slips creation in the thin film in perpendicular magnetic filed with edge superconductivity is studied. These centers are due to thermal activation of the order parameter below superconducting temperature transition leading to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-06-22 A. A. Zyuzin , A. Yu. Zyuzin

Superconductivity in layered cuprates is induced by doping holes into a parent antiferromagnetic insulator. It is now recognized that another common emergent order involves charge stripes, and our understanding of the relationship between…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-22 J. M. Tranquada , M. P. M. Dean , Qiang Li

We study a Rashba superconductor thin film with ferromagnetic insulators (FIs) placed on top of it. We show that the ferromagnetic insulators generate circular super-currents, enabling long-range magnetic interactions (LRMI), decaying in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-18 Ming Yan Wang , Yi Liu , Yao Lu

It is widely believed that topological superconductivity, a hitherto elusive phase of quantum matter, can be achieved by inducing superconductivity in topological materials. In search of such topological superconductors, certain topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-01 Sandeep Howlader , Goutam Sheet

Several powerful techniques exist to detect topologically protected surface states of weakly-interacting electronic systems. In contrast, surface modes of strongly interacting systems which do not carry electric charge are much harder to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-24 Brent Perreault , Johannes Knolle , Natalia B. Perkins , F. J. Burnell

We propose a scheme to create an electronic Floquet vortex state by irradiating a two-dimensional semiconductor with the laser light carrying non-zero orbital angular momentum. We analytically and numerically study the properties of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Hwanmun Kim , Hossein Dehghani , Iman Ahmadabadi , Ivar Martin , Mohammad Hafezi

The superconducting phase transition in YBa$_{2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{7-\textit{$\delta $}}$(YBCO) thin film samples doped with non-superconducting nanodot impurities of CeO$_{2}$ are the focus of recent high-temperature superconductor studies.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-19 Ronald Gamble , K. M. Flurchick , Abebe Kebede

There have been several proposals for platforms sustaining topological superconductivity in high temperature superconductors, in order to make use of the larger superconducting gap and the expected robustness of Majorana zero modes towards…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-29 Mainak Pal , Andreas Kreisel , P. J. Hirschfeld

Opticcal conductivity spectra $\sigma_1(\omega)$ of Nd2-xCexCuO4 thin films, measured by the reflectance-transmittance method (R-T method) which has been proposed to investigate far-infrared spectroscopy, are investigated based on the…

We study how to use the surface states in a Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$ topological insulator ultra-thin film that are affected by finite size effects for the purpose of quantum computing. We demonstrate that: (i) surface states under the finite size…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-22 Kexin Zhang , Hugo V. Lepage , Ying Dong , Crispin H. W. Barnes

We present some of the recent theoretical studies on the impurity effects in conventional superconductors, such as magnetic and ordinary impurity effects in dirty and weak localization limits, and describe successfully unexplained…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-02-03 Yong-Jihn Kim , K. J. Chang

Bringing magnetic metals into superconducting states represents an important approach for realizing unconventional superconductors and potentially even topological superconductors. Altermagnetism, classified as a third basic collinear…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-07 Di Zhu , Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Zhigang Wu , Zhongbo Yan

Over the last decade advances in high temperature superconducting (HTS) materials have generated a renewed optimism in the use of this technology in future high-power applications including motors, generators, and power transmission. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Kenneth E. Hix , Matthew C. Rendina , James L. Blackshire , George A. Levin