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We demonstrate that quantum interference of electronic waves that are scattered by multiple magnetic impurities in an s-wave superconductor gives rise to novel bound states. We predict that by varying the inter-impurity distance or the…

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The goal of this research is the study of the thermomagnetic consequences in isotropic type-II superconductors, subjected to multi-component magnetic fields $\mathbf{H}_a = H_{ay}\hat{y}+H_{az}\hat{z}$, because the instability field…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-09-24 O. A. Hernández-Flores , J. Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez , C. Romero-Salazar

We have investigated the local magneto-transport in high-quality 2D electron systems at low carrier densities. The positive magneto-resistance in perpendicular magnetic field in the strongly insulating regime has been measured to evaluate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Ghosh , M. Pepper , H. E. Beere , D. A. Ritchie

In the theory of dilute magnetic impurities in superconductors, the effect of all impurity spin-components is expressed via a single magnetic scattering rate $\Gamma_\mathrm{m}$. In a more realistic setting, magnetic impurities are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-08-05 David Möckli , Menashe Haim , Maxim Khodas

A microscopic theory is presented for the local moment formation near a non-magnetic impurity or a copper defect in high-T_c superconductors. We use a renormalized meanfield theory of the t-J model for a doped Mott insulator and study the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Ziqiang Wang , Patrick A. Lee

The influence of disorder and interaction on the ground state polarization of the two-dimensional (2D) correlated electron gas is studied by numerical investigations of unrestricted Hartree-Fock equations. The ferromagnetic ground state is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Nita , V. Dinu , A. Aldea , B. Tanatar

The role of self-consistency in Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations is frequently underestimated in the investigation of in-gap states created by magnetic impurities in s-wave superconductors. Our research focuses on the impact of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-05 Divya Jyoti , Deung-Jang Choi , Nicolas Lorente

We study finite quantum wires and rings in the presence of a charge density wave gap induced by a periodic modulation of the chemical potential. We show that the Tamm-Shockley bound states emerging at the ends of the wire are stable against…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-07 Suhas Gangadharaiah , Luka Trifunovic , Daniel Loss

We study the effects of a magnetic impurity on the behavior of a $S=1/2$ spin chain. At T=0, both with and without an applied uniform magnetic field, an oscillating magnetization appears, whose decay with the distance from the impurity is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tony Apollaro , Alessandro Cuccoli , Andrea Fubini , Francesco Plastina , Paola Verrucchi

We develop a formalism to study the role of local defects in tight binding systems in the presence of a strong external ac electric field. It is found that the appearance and disappearance of localized states, as well as their localization…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 D. Hone , M. Holthaus

High-temperature superconductivity in the iron-based materials emerges from, or sometimes coexists with, their metallic or insulating parent compound states. This is surprising since these undoped states display dramatically different…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-10-05 Pengcheng Dai , Jiangping Hu , Elbio Dagotto

Strong nonmagnetic impurities on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) generate localized resonance peaks close to the Dirac point. We show that this results in a strongly reduced critical Coulomb interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Dmitry Yudin

Using the method of energy-level statistics, the localization properties of electrons moving in two dimensions in the presence of a perpendicular random magnetic field and additional random disorder potentials are investigated. For this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Batsch , L. Schweitzer , B. Kramer

We study nonmagnetic impurity effects in MgB$_{2}$ using the quasiclassical equations of superconductivity for a weak-coupling two-band model. Parameters in the model are fixed so as to reproduce experiments on MgB$_{2}$ as closely as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Koichi Watanabe , Takafumi Kita

We theoretically study bound states generated by magnetic impurities within conventional $s$-wave superconductors, both analytically and numerically. In determining the effect of the hybridization of two such bound states on the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-23 Silas Hoffman , Jelena Klinovaja , Tobias Meng , Daniel Loss

The effects of random distribution of magnetic impurities with concentration $x$ in a semiconductor alloy multilayer at a paramagnetic temperature are investigated by means of coherent potential approximation and tight-binding model. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-20 Leili Gharaee , Alireza Saffarzadeh

We study the emergence and the stability of temporal localized structures in the output of a semiconductor laser passively mode-locked by a saturable absorber in the long cavity regime. For large yet realistic values of the linewidth…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-23 Christian Schelte , Julien Javaloyes , Svetlana V. Gurevich

Magnetic properties of the planar structure consisting of a ferromagnetic metal and the diluted magnetic semiconductor are considered (by the example of the structure Fe/Ga(Mn)As, experimentally studied in [F. Maccherozzi, e.a., Phys. Rev.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Z. Meilikhov , R. M. Farzetdinova

We study the magnetic anisotropy effects on the localized sub-gap excitations induced by quantum impurities coupled to a superconducting host. We establish the ground-state phase diagrams for single-channel and two-channel high-spin Kondo…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-05-25 Rok Zitko , Oliver Bodensiek , Thomas Pruschke

Magnetic impurities coupled antiferromagnetically to a one-dimensional Heisenberg model are studied by numerical diagonalization of chains of finite clusters. By calculating the binding energy and the correlation function, it is shown that…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 J. Igarashi , T. Tonegawa , M. Kaburagi , P. Fulde