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In a three-dimensional strong topological insulator, gapless helical surface states appear everywhere on its surface. In the presence of a screw dislocation, gapless helical modes also appear in the vicinity of the corresponding dislocation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Tatsuro Sakaguchi , Yositake Takane

We investigate the hydrostatic pressure dependence of interfacial superconductivity occurring at the atomically sharp interface between two non-superconducting materials: the topological insulator (TI) Bi2Te3 and the parent compound Fe1+yTe…

We study the superconducting state of multi-orbital spin-orbit coupled systems in the presence of an orbitally driven inversion asymmetry assuming that the inter-orbital attraction is the dominant pairing channel. Although the inversion…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-06 Yuri Fukaya , Shun Tamura , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco

Magnetic exchange driven proximity effect at a magnetic insulator / topological insulator (MI/TI) interface provides a rich playground for novel phenomena as well as a way to realize low energy dissipation quantum devices. Here we report a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Mingda Li , Cui-Zu Chang , Brian. J. Kirby , Michelle Jamer , Wenping Cui , Lijun Wu , Yimei Zhu , Don Heiman , Ju Li , Jagadeesh Moodera

Topological superconductors (TSCs) are of significant current interest because they offer promising platforms for finding Majorana fermions. Here we report a new superconductor synthesized by intercalating Cu into a naturally-formed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-19 Satoshi Sasaki , Kouji Segawa , Yoichi Ando

We study the excitation spectrum of a topological insulator in contact with an s-wave superconductor, starting from a microscopic model, and develop an effective low-energy model for the proximity effect. In the vicinity of the Dirac cone…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-06-25 Tudor D. Stanescu , Jay D. Sau , Roman M. Lutchyn , S. Das Sarma

Nontrivial band topology along with magnetism leads to different novel quantum phases. When time-reversal-symmetry is broken in three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) by applying high enough magnetic field or proximity effect,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-11 Nezhat Pournaghavi , Banasree Sadhukhan , Anna Delin

We report on the observation on proximity-induced superconductivity in the topological insulator BiSbTeSe2 coupled to a disordered superconductor, amorphous indium oxide (a-InO). Resistance temperature measurements reveal superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Jagadis Prasad Nayak , Aviad Frydman , Gopi Nath Daptary

We study the superconducting proximity effect on the helical edge states of time-reversal-symmetric fractional topological insulators(FTI). The Cooper pairing of electrons results in many-particle condensation of the fractionalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-21 Meng Cheng

Topological superconductors give rise to unconventional superconductivity, which is mainly characterized by the symmetry of the superconducting pairing amplitude. However, since the symmetry of the superconducting pairing amplitude is not…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-09 C. Fleckenstein , N. Traverso Ziani , B. Trauzettel

We investigate emergent odd-frequency pairs and proximity effect in nematic and chiral states of superconducting topological insulators (STIs), such as $M_x$Bi$_2$Se$_3$ ($M=$ Cu, Sr, Nb). The interplay of superconducting gap symmetry, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-10 Takeshi Mizushima , Shun Tamura , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka

In this paper, we realize a topological superconductor (TSC) in correlated topological insulator - the interacting spinful Haldane model. We consider the electrons on the Haldane model with on-site negative-U interaction and then study its…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-08 Ying Liang , Jing He , Ya-Jie Wu , Ying-Xue Zhu , Su-Peng Kou

We consider an isolated vortex in the two-dimensional proximity-induced superconducting state formed at the interface of a three-dimensional strong topological insulator (TI) and an s-wave superconductor (sSC). Prior calculations of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-09 Adam C. Durst

Topological insulators (TIs) hold great promises for new spin-related phenomena and applications thanks to the spin texture of their surface states. However, a versatile platform allowing for the exploitation of these assets is still…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 T. Guillet , C. Zucchetti , A. Marchionni , A. Hallal , P. Biagioni , C. Vergnaud , A. Marty , M. Finazzi , F. Ciccacci , M. Chshiev , F. Bottegoni , M. Jamet

The spin-Seebeck effect refers to voltage signals induced in metals by thermally driven spin currents in adjacent magnetic systems. We present a theory of the spin-Seebeck signal in the case where the conductor that supports the voltage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Nobuyuki Okuma , Massoud Ramezani Masir , Allan H. MacDonald

In the following paper we investigate the critical temperature $T_c$ behavior in the two-dimensional S/TI (S denotes superconductor and TI - topological insulator) junction with a proximity induced in-plane helical magnetization in the TI…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-09 T. Karabassov , A. A. Golubov , V. M. Silkin , V. S. Stolyarov , A. S. Vasenko

Topological aspects of superconductivity in quantum spin-Hall systems (QSHSs) such as thin layers of three-dimensional topological insulators (3D Tis) or two-dimensional Tis are in the focus of current research. We examine hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 R. W. Reinthaler , G. Tkachov , E. M. Hankiewicz

Superconducting topological crystalline insulators (TCI) are predicted to host new topological phases protected by crystalline symmetries, but available materials are insufficiently suitable for surface studies. To induce superconductivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-08 Bryan Rachmilowitz , He Zhao , Hong Li , Alex LaFleur , J. Schneeloch , Ruidan Zhong , Genda Gu , Ilija Zeljkovic

We investigate theoretically spin-resolved transport, spin filtering, and nonreciprocal effects in an Altermagnet/Ising superconductor (AM/ISC) junction with a spin-active interface. Using a modified Bogoliubov-de Gennes framework within…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-14 Arindam Boruah , Saumen Acharjee , Prasanta Kumar Saikia

We present a theoretical framework for investigating superconducting proximity effect in altermagnet (AM)-superconductor (SC) heterostructures. In general, AMs, characterized by vanishing net magnetization but spin-split electronic spectra,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-20 Ohidul Alam , Amartya Pal , Paramita Dutta , Arijit Saha