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Over the last decade it has been shown that magnetic non-collinearity at a s-wave superconductor/ferromagnet interface is a key ingredient for spin-singlet to spin-triplet pair conversion. This has been verified in several synthetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-04-24 Ekta Bhatia , J. Devine-Stoneman , Zoe H. Barber , J. W. A. Robinson , Kartik Senapati

Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction (SOI) controlled band structure of a two-dimensional superlattice allows for the modulation of the conductance of finite size devices by changing the strength of the SOI. We consider rectangular arrays and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Peter Foldi , Viktor Szaszko-Bogar , F. M. Peeters

The description of the proximity effect in superconducting/ferromagnetic heterostructures requires to use spin-dependent boundary conditions. Such boundary conditions must take into account the spin dependence of the phase shifts acquired…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Audrey Cottet

In two dimensions, an s-wave superconductor in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling possesses distinct topologically non-trivial ground state phases controlled by Zeeman splitting and band filling. These phases can be characterized in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-26 Stefan Gorol , Florian Loder , Daniel Braak , Arno P. Kampf , Thilo Kopp

Systems that simultaneously exhibit superconductivity and spin-orbit coupling are predicted to provide a route toward topological superconductivity and unconventional electron pairing, driving significant contemporary interest in these…

In transition metal perovskites (ABO3) most physical properties are tunable by structural parameters such as the rotation of the BO6 octahedra. Examples include the N\'eel temperature of orthoferrites, the conductivity of mixed-valence…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-27 Julien Varignon , Jacobo Santamaria , Manuel Bibes

In conventional superconductors, bulk physical properties typically degrade as the film thickness approaches the two-dimensional (2D) limit. Here in the (111) oriented LaAlO3/KTaO3 (LAO/KTO) heterostructure, we demonstrate experimental…

Superconductor--semiconductor hybrid devices are currently attracting much attention, fueled by the fact that strong spin--orbit interaction in combination with induced superconductivity can lead to exotic physics with potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Jonas Lidal , Jeroen Danon

Motivated by the recent findings of unconventional superconductivity in $\mathrm{CoSi_2 / TiSi_2}$ heterostructures, we study the effect of interface induced Rashba spin orbit coupling on the conductance of a three terminal "T" shape…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-05-18 Vivek Mishra , Yu Li , Fu-Chun Zhang , Stefan Kirchner

We briefly review recent progress on ultracold atomic Fermi gases with different types of synthetic spin-orbit coupling, including the one-dimensional (1D) equal weight Rashba-Dresselhaus and two-dimensional (2D) Rasbha spin-orbit…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-23 Jing Zhang , Hui Hu , Xia-Ji Liu , Han Pu

We study spectroscopic properties of ferromagnetic-superconductor heterostructures with strong spin-orbit coupling of the Rashba type and in the presence of exchange fields. The superconducting layer (film) experiences both an intrinsic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-03-28 P. M. Svetlichnyy , Z. Jiang , C. A. R. Sá de Melo

We obtain the superfluid transition temperature of equal Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit and Rabi coupled Fermi superfluids, from the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) to Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) regimes in three dimensions. Spin-orbit…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-22 Philip D Powell , Gordon Baym , C. A. R. Sa de Melo

The manipulation of Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in molecular beam epitaxy-grown Al$_x$In$_{1-x}$Sb/InSb/CdTe quantum well heterostructures is reported. The effective band bending provides robust two-dimensional quantum…

Ferromagnet/Superconductor/Ferromagnet (F/S/F) trilayers constitute the core of a superconducting spin valve. The switching effect of the spin valve is based on interference phenomena occurring due to the proximity effect at the S/F…

Two-level quantum systems with strong spin-orbit coupling allow for all-electrical qubit control and long-distance qubit coupling via microwave and phonon cavities, making them of particular interest for scalable quantum information…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-11 J. van der Heijden , T. Kobayashi , M. G. House , J. Salfi , S. Barraud , R. Lavieville , M. Y. Simmons , S. Rogge

We report the observation of superconductivity with multiple magnetic ordering and Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling in a layered polar semimetal EuAuBi. Magnetic transition is observed at 4 K, followed by a superconducting transition at 2.2…

We uncover that the competition between electron-electron correlations and electron-phonon interactions gives rise to unexpectedly huge enhancement of the superconducting transition temperature, several hundreds percent larger ($\geq$ 200…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-07-24 Rayda Gammag , Ki-Seok Kim

In a superconductor/ferromagnet hybrid, a magnetically controlled singlet-to-triplet Cooper pair conversion can modulate the superconducting critical temperature. In these triplet superconducting spin valves, such control usually requires…

Two dimensional electron systems at oxide interfaces are often influenced by a Rashba type spin- orbit coupling (SOC), which is tunable by a transverse electric field. Ferromagnetism at the interface can simultaneously induce strong local…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-23 Florian Loder , Arno P. Kampf , Thilo Kopp

We consider a new kind of superconducting proximity effect created by the tunneling of "spin split" Cooper pairs between two conventional superconductors connected by a normal conductor containing a quantum dot. The difference compared to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 O. Entin-Wohlman , R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson , A. Aharony