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The Ginzburg-Landau free energy of a conventional superconductor coupled to a helimagnet is microscopically derived using functional field integral techniques. We show that the spin texture leads to a Lifshitz invariant in the free energy,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-10 Kjetil M. D. Hals

We consider the spectral properties of aperiodic block subwavelength resonator systems in one dimension, with a primary focus on the density of states. We prove that for random block configurations, as the number of blocks $M\to \infty$,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Habib Ammari , Silvio Barandun , Bryn Davies , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Alexander Uhlmann

Magnetic impurities on superconductors present a viable platform for building advanced applications in quantum technologies. However, a controlled manipulation of their quantum states continues to pose a significant challenge, hindering the…

We study the effect of strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on bound states induced by impurities in superconductors. The presence of spin-orbit coupling breaks the $\mathbb{SU}(2)$-spin symmetry and causes the superconducting order parameter…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-15 Younghyun Kim , Junhua Zhang , E. Rossi , Roman M. Lutchyn

We study the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida interaction in 3D Dirac semimetals. Using retarded Green's functions in real space, we obtain and analyze asymptotic expressions for the interaction, with magnetic impurities at different distances…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-29 Diego Mastrogiuseppe , Nancy Sandler , Sergio Ulloa

Motivated by recent scanning tunneling microscopy experiments on single magnetic impurities on superconducting surfaces, we present here a comprehensive theoretical study of the interplay between Yu-Shiba-Rusinov bound states and (multiple)…

The quantum dimer magnet, with antiferromagnetic intradimer and interdimer Heisenberg exchange between spin-1/2 moments, is known to host an up/down - down/up singlet ground state when the intradimer exchange is dominant. Rare-earth-based…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-10 A. Brassington , Q. Ma , G. Duan , S. Calder , A. I. Kolesnikov , K. M. Taddei , G. Sala , E. S. Choi , H. Wang , W. Xie , B. A. Frandsen , N. Li , X. F. Sun , C. Liu , R. Yu , H. D. Zhou , A. A. Aczel

We present several new results, extending our recent proposal of a spin filter based on a tight-binding model for a periodic chain of diamond-like loops [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 78}, 125328 (2008)]. In this filter, the Rashba spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Amnon Aharony , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Yasuhiro Tokura , Shingo Katsumoto

We study the spin-polarized spectral properties of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov resonance states induced by magnetic impurities in 2- and 3-dimensional nematic superconductors: few layer Bi$_2$Te$_3$ grown on FeTe$_{0.55}$Se$_{0.45}$ (2-dimensional)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-11 Liang Chen , Ya-Li Zhang , Rong-Sheng Han

The interrelation between spin and charge in semiconductors leads to interesting effects, e.g., the Rashba-type spin-orbit splitting or the exchange enhancement. These properties are proposed to be used in applications such as spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-18 M. Morgenstern , A. Georgi , C. Straßer , C. R. Ast , S. Becker , M. Liebmann

We study the bound state spectrum and 0-$\pi$ transitions in ballistic quasi-1D superconductor/ferromagnetic insulator/superconductor (S/FI/S) Josephson junctions. In addition to the Andreev bound states, stemming from the phase coherence,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-10-26 Andreas Costa , Jaroslav Fabian , Denis Kochan

Revealing the energy and spatial characteristics of impurity induced states in superconductors is essential for understanding their mechanism and fabricating new quantum state by manipulating impurities. Here by using high-resolution…

Magneto-transport properties of a two-dimensional electron gas in a chain of planar quantum rings are investigated under the Rashba spin-orbit interaction and a transverse homogeneous magnetic field. A modulation potential function models…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Armen Harutyunyan

Topological superconductors as characterized by Majorana surface states has been actively searched for their significance in fundamental science and technological implication. The large spin-orbit coupling in Bi-Pd binaries has stimulated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-30 Hongchul Choi , Madhab Neupane , T. Sasagawa , Elbert E. M. Chia , Jian-Xin Zhu

Motivated by recent experiments [Nat. Phys. $\textbf{16}$, 1227 (2020)], we present here a theoretical study of the DC Josephson effect in a system comprising two magnetic impurities coupled to their respective superconducting electrodes…

Spin singlet superconductors with quasi-two dimensional multilayer structure are studied in high magnetic fields. Specifically we concentrate on bi- and tri-layer systems whose layers by symmetry are subject Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-11 Tomohiro Yoshida , Manfred Sigrist , Youichi Yanase

We theoretically study the formation and characteristics of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov bound states within the superconducting gap using a BTK approach in presence of a spin flipper (high spin magnetic impurity). We focus on the zero energy in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-10 Subhajit Pal , Colin Benjamin

We study the magnetic properties of the adatom systems on a semiconductor surface Si(111):\{C,Si,Sn,Pb\} - ($\sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3}$). On the basis of all-electron density functional theory calculations we construct effective low-energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-28 D. I. Badrtdinov , S. A. Nikolaev , M. I. Katsnelson , V. V. Mazurenko

We study theoretically the dynamics of a Shiba state forming around precessing classical spin in an s-wave superconductor. Utilizing a rotating wave description for the precessing magnetic impurity, we find the resulting Shiba bound state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 V. Kaladzhyan , S. Hoffman , M. Trif

We present theoretical studies of the influence of spin orbit coupling on the spin wave excitations of the Fe monolayer and bilayer on the W(110) surface. The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction is active in such films, by virtue of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-19 A. T. Costa , R. B. Muniz , S. Lounis , A. B. Klautau , D. L. Mills