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We consider a superconductor proximity coupled to a two-dimensional ferromagnetic film with a skyrmion texture. Using the T-matrix calculations and numerical modeling we calculate the spin-polarized local density of states in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-15 Sergey S. Pershoguba , Sho Nakosai , Alexander V. Balatsky

Magnetic adatoms on superconductors induce Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states, which are key to the design of low-dimensional correlated systems and topological superconductivity. Competing magnetic interactions and superconducting pairing lead…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Lisa M. Rütten , Harald Schmid , Werner M. J. van Weerdenburg , Eva Liebhaber , Kai Rossnagel , Katharina J. Franke

We show that a spontaneous magnetic moment may appear at the edge of a spin-triplet superconductor if the system allows for pairing in a subdominant channel. To unveil the microscopic mechanism behind such effect we combine numerical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-09-03 Alfonso Romano , Paola Gentile , Canio Noce , Ilya Vekhter , Mario Cuoco

We consider subgap bands induced in a two-dimensional superconductor by a densely packed chain of magnetic moments with ferromagnetic or spiral alignments. We show that by contrast with sparsely packed chains a consistent description…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-23 C. J. F. Carroll , B. Braunecker

Magnetic adatoms on s-wave superconductors induce bound states inside the superconducting gap, called Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states (YSR). The anisotropy of the Fermi surface determines the spatial extension of bound states in a…

We study the presence of impurity bound states within a five-band Hubbard model relevant to iron-based superconductors. In agreement with earlier studies, we find that in the absence of Coulomb correlations there exists a range of repulsive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-16 Maria N. Gastiasoro , Brian M. Andersen

The combination of different exotic properties in materials paves the way for the emergence of their new potential applications. An example is the recently found coexistence of the mutually antagonistic ferromagnetism and superconductivity…

The dynamics of the magnetic field in a superconducting phase is described by an effective massive bosonic field theory. If the superconductor is confined in a domain M with boundary \partial M, the boundary conditions of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Asorey , A. P. Balachandran , J. M. Perez-Pardo

We study theoretically the asymptotic behavior of the Shiba bound states associated with magnetic impurities embedded in both 2D and 1D anomalous superconductors. We calculate analytically the spatial dependence of the local density of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-18 Vardan Kaladzhyan , Cristina Bena , Pascal Simon

We study subgap states induced by a single impurity in an s-wave superconductor with suppressed pairing. For concreteness, we consider a bulk superconductor containing a normal spherical region. We find that a point impurity in this system…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-12 A. A. Bespalov

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

Quantum materials that host a flat band, such as pseudospin-1 lattices and magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, can exhibit drastically new physical phenomena including unconventional superconductivity, orbital ferromagnetism, and Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Hong-Ya Xu , Ying-Cheng Lai

We have implemented the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) equation in a screened Korringa-Kohn- Rostoker (KKR) method for solving, self-consistently, the superconducting state for 3d crystals including substitutional impurities. In this report we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-02 Tom G. Saunderson , James F. Annett , Gábor Csire , Martin Gradhand

We show that superconducting currents are generated around magnetic impurities and ferromagnetic islands proximity-coupled to superconductors with finite spin-orbit coupling. Using the Ginzburg-Landau theory, T-matrix calculation, as well…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-29 Sergey S. Pershoguba , Kristofer Björnson , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Alexander V. Balatsky

We argue that the formation of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov excitations in proximitized thin films is largely mediated by a type of Andreev-bound state named after de Gennes and Saint James. This is shown by studying an experimentally motivated model…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-09 Jon Ortuzar , Jose Ignacio Pascual , F. Sebastian Bergeret , Miguel A. Cazalilla

We investigate the effect of magnetic impurities on the local quasiparticle density of states (LDOS) in iron-based superconductors. Employing the two-orbital model where 3$d$ electron and hole conduction bands are hybridizing with the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-01-26 Alireza Akbari , Ilya Eremin , Peter Thalmeier

Topological insulators are characterized by specially protected conduction on their outer boundaries. We show that the protected edge conduction exhibited by 2-D topological insulators (and also Chern insulators) is independent of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Quansheng Wu , Liang Du , Vincent E. Sacksteder

We study in-gap states of a single magnetic impurity embedded in a honeycomb monolayer which is deposited on superconducting substrate. The intrinsic spin-orbit coupling induces the quantum spin Hall insulating (QSHI) phase gapped around…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-08-12 Szczepan Głodzik , Tadeusz Domański

We study a chain of magnetic moments exchange coupled to a conventional three dimensional superconductor. In the normal state the chain orders into a collinear configuration, while in the superconducting phase we find that ferromagnetism is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-27 M. Schecter , K. Flensberg , M. H. Christensen , B. M. Andersen , J. Paaske

It has been predicted theoretically and found experimentally that magnetic impurities induce localized bound states within the superconducting energy gap, called Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states. Combining symmetry analysis with experimental…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-29 Ming-Hung Wu , Emma Thill , Jacob Crosbie , Tom G. Saunderson , Martin Gradhand