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We study finite system properties of the canonical low energy model for a semiconducting nanowire with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The case of an isolated wire as well as of one proximitized by an s-wave superconductor are considered.…

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We consider a new model system supporting Majorana zero modes based on semiconductor nanowires with a full superconducting shell. We demonstrate that, in the presence of spin-orbit coupling in the semiconductor induced by a radial electric…

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

We study the system of double Rashba wires brought into the proximity to an $s$-wave superconductor. The time reversal invariant topological superconductivity is realized if the interwire pairing corresponding to crossed Andreev reflection…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-14 Hiromi Ebisu , Bo Lu , Jelena Klinovaja , Yukio Tanaka

We study the effect of a Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the nodal superconducting phase of an Ising superconductor. Such nodal phase was predicted to occur when applying an in-plane field beyond the Pauli limit to a superconducting monolayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Gal Cohen , Ranjani Seshadri , Maxim Khodas , Dganit Meidan

Inversion symmetry is a key symmetry in unconventional superconductors and even its local breaking can have profound implications. For inversion-symmetric systems, there is a competition on a microscopic level between the spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-11 Anastasiia Skurativska , Manfred Sigrist , Mark H. Fischer

We propose and analyze theoretically an experimental setup for detecting the elusive Majorana particle in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures. The experimental system consists of one-dimensional semiconductor wire with strong…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-08-16 Roman M. Lutchyn , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

In this work we study interacting electrons on square lattice in the presence of strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The spin-orbit term forces the time-reversal electron states to be paired in even Cooper channels. For concreteness, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Rasoul Ghadimi , Mehdi Kargarian , S. Akbar Jafari

We fabricated spin-polarized surface electronic states with tunable Fermi level from semiconductor to low-dimensional metal in the Bi/GaSb(110)-(2$\times$1) surface using angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES) and spin-resolved…

The search for topological superconductors which support Majorana fermion excitations has been an important topic in condensed matter physics. In this work, we propose a new experimental scheme for engineering topological superconductors.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-20 Yao Lu , Wen-Yu He , Dong-Hui Xu , Nian Lin , K. T. Law

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

Spin-orbit coupling is a single-particle phenomenon known to generate topological order, and electron-electron interactions cause ordered many-body phases to exist. The rich interplay of these two mechanisms is present in a broad range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Weizhe Edward Liu , Stefano Chesi , David Webb , U. Zuelicke , R. Winkler , Robert Joynt , Dimitrie Culcer

We present a bunch of novel phenomena stemming from the pair spin-orbit interaction (PSOI), which does not rely on structure inversion asymmetry but instead arises from Coulomb fields of interacting electrons in materials with a strong…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-03 Yasha Gindikin , Alex Kamenev

Semiconductor Rashba nanowires are quasi-one dimensional systems that have large spin-orbit (SO) coupling arising from a broken inversion symmetry due to an external electric field. There exist parametrized multiband models that can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Samuel D. Escribano , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Elsa Prada

We study the effect of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the Fermi arcs of topological Dirac semimetals. The Rashba coupling is induced by breaking the inversion symmetry at the surface. Remarkably, this coupling could be enhanced by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-12 Yuriko Baba , Francisco Domínguez-Adame , Gloria Platero , Rafael A. Molina

Second order topological insulator can be engineered from two-dimensional materials with strong spin-orbit coupling and in-plane Zeeman field. In proximity to superconductor, topological superconducting phase could be induced in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-11 Ma Luo

Having the potential for performing quantum computation, topological superconductors have been generalized to the second-order case. The hybridization of different orders of topological superconductors is attractive because it facilitates…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-19 Hong Wu , Jun-Hong An

We introduce a versatile heterostructure harboring various topological superconducting phases characterized by the presence of helical, chiral, or unidirectional edge states. Changing parameters, such as an effective Zeeman field or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-08 Yanick Volpez , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

Symmetry offers a useful approach to unfold the intertwined degrees of freedom. Thus it paves the way to resolve coexisting quantum orders into distinct symmetry sectors. Motivated by the recent observation of superconductivity in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-19 Kunal Dutta , Rajesh O. Sharma , Shreya Das , Indra Dasgupta , Tanmoy Das , Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta

We investigate parity-mixing superconductivity in the two-dimensional Hubbard model with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, using Cellular Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (CDMFT). A superconducting state with mixed singlet $d$-wave and triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-19 Xiancong Lu , David Sénéchal