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A detailed theory of a phase diagram of a 2D surface superconductor in a parallel magnetic field is presented. A spin-orbital interaction of the Rashba type is known to produce at a high magnetic field $h$ (and in the absence of impurities)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Ol'ga Dimitrova , M. V. Feigel'man

We investigate theoretically a one-dimensional semiconductor-superconductor (SM-SC) heterostructure with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and parallel Zeeman field in the presence of disorder generated by random charged impurities and identify…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Binayyak B. Roy , Rimika Jaiswal , Tudor D. Stanescu , Sumanta Tewari

We consider a Josephson bijunction consisting of a thin $SIS$ $\pi$-Josephson junction sandwiched between two-dimensional semiconducting layers with strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Each of these layers forms an $SNS$ junction due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Yanick Volpez , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

In two-dimensional superconductors with a Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling, it is known that an in-plane magnetic field can induce a helical superconducting (SC) state with a phase modulation $e^{i {\bf q}\cdot {\bf r}}$. Here, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-02 Kazushi Aoyama

We study superconducting phases in a quasi-two-dimensional multilayer system without local inversion symmetry. Broken local inversion symmetry induces layer-dependent Rashba-type spin-orbit couplings. We find that a complex-stripe phase,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-06-20 Tomohiro Yoshida , Manfred Sigrist , Youichi Yanase

Motivated by the recent discovery of a possible field-mediated parity switch within the superconducting state of CeRh2As2 [Khim et al., Science 373, 1012 (2021)], we thoroughly investigate the dependence of the superconducting state of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-16 B. K. Nally , P. M. R. Brydon

Proximity-induced superconductivity in low-dimensional systems offers a powerful pathway to engineer topological superconducting phases in, otherwise, non-superconducting systems. These exotic phases are of fundamental and technological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 M. García Olmos , Y. Baba , R. A. Molina , M. Amado

We study hybrid superconducting-semiconducting nanowires in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction as well as helical magnetic fields. We show that the interplay between them leads to a competition of phases with two topological gaps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-27 Jelena Klinovaja , Peter Stano , Daniel Loss

We obtain the general conditions for the emergence of odd-frequency superconducting pairing in a two-dimensional (2D) electronic system proximity-coupled to a superconductor, making minimal assumptions about both the 2D system and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-08 Christopher Triola , Driss M. Badiane , Alexander V. Balatsky , E. Rossi

Pair spin-orbit interaction can emerge in strongly-interacting systems characterized by a large spin-orbit coupling. Here we study the role of this interaction in stabilizing ordered and unconventional superconducting phases. We find that,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-30 Feng Liu , Alessandro Principi

The weak-coupling renormalization group method is an asymptotically exact method to find superconducting instabilities of a lattice model of correlated electrons. Here we extend it to spin-orbit coupled lattice systems and study the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-12-02 Sebastian Wolf , Stephan Rachel

We analyze influence of a dimerization on the topological phases of the Rashba nanowire proximitized to a superconducting substrate. We find that periodic alternations of the hopping integral and spin-orbit coupling can lead to band…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-14 Aksel Kobiałka , Nicholas Sedlmayr , Maciej M. Maśka , Tadeusz Domański

We investigate the topological properties and the accessible Majorana fermion (MF) phases arising in a hybrid device consisting of a chain of magnetic adatoms placed on the surface of a conventional superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 Andreas Heimes , Daniel Mendler , Panagiotis Kotetes

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…

Although multilayer systems possess global inversion symmetry, some of the layers lack local inversion symmetry because no global inversion centers are present on such layers. Such locally non-centrosymmetric systems exhibit spatially…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-19 Daisuke Maruyama , Manfred Sigrist , Youichi Yanase

To pinpoint the microscopic mechanism for superconductivity has proven to be one of the most outstanding challenges in the physics of correlated quantum matter. Thus far, the most direct evidence for an electronic pairing mechanism is the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-29 Mathias S. Scheurer , Jörg Schmalian

We consider time-reversal-symmetric two-channel semiconducting quantum wires proximity coupled to an s-wave superconductor. We analyze the requirements for a nontrivial topological phase and find that necessary conditions are 1) the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-01 Erikas Gaidamauskas , Jens Paaske , Karsten Flensberg

We use the microscopic weak coupling theory to predict the pairing state in superconductors of cubic, hexagonal, or tetragonal symmetry, where the order parameter is multicomponent, i.e., transforms according to either a 2-dimensional or a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 V Kuznetsova , V. Barzykin

We study the superconducting instabilities of a single species of two-dimensional Rashba-Dirac fermions, as it pertains to the surface of a three-dimensional time-reversal symmetric topological band insulators. We also discuss the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Luiz Santos , Titus Neupert , Claudio Chamon , Christopher Mudry

We study the superconducting instability and the resulting superconducting states in a two-dimensional repulsive Fermi gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling at low electron density (namely the Fermi energy $E_F$ is lower than the energy $E_R$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-15 Luyang Wang