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We study a Rashba superconductor thin film with ferromagnetic insulators (FIs) placed on top of it. We show that the ferromagnetic insulators generate circular super-currents, enabling long-range magnetic interactions (LRMI), decaying in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-18 Ming Yan Wang , Yi Liu , Yao Lu

GeTe has been proposed as the father compound of a new class of functional materials displaying bulk Rashba effects coupled to ferroelectricity: ferroelectric Rashba semiconductors. In nice agreement with first principle calculations, we…

The ability of spin-orbit interactions to convert charge current into spin current, most often in the bulk of heavy metal thin films, has been the hallmark of spintronics in the last decade. In this study, we demonstrate how the insertion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-27 S. Krishnia , Y. Sassi , F. Ajejas , N. Reyren , S. Collin , A. Fert , J. -M. George , V. Cros , H. Jaffres

We demonstrate a 20-fold enhancement in the strength of the RKKY interlayer exchange in dilute-ferromagnet/normal-metal multilayers by incorporating ultrathin Fe layers at the interfaces. Additionally, the resulting increase in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Dmytro M. Polishchuk , Milton Persson , Mykola M. Kulyk , Erik Holmgren , Gabriele Pasquale , Vladislav Korenivski

The discovery of novel properties, effects or microscopic mechanisms in modern materials science is often driven by the quest for combining, into a single compound, several functionalities: not only the juxtaposition of the latter…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-17 Silvia Picozzi

The interlayer exchange coupling (IEC) between two ferromagnetic (FM) layers separated by a non-magnetic (NM) spacer layer gives rise to different types of coupling with the variation of spacer layer thickness. When the NM is metallic, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-11 Shaktiranjan Mohanty , Brindaban Ojha , Minaxi Sharma , Subhankar Bedanta

We study the magneto-optical (MO) response of polar semiconductor BiTeI with giant bulk Rashba spin splitting at various carrier densities. Despite being non-magnetic, the material is found to yield a huge MO activity in the infrared region…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-05 L. Demkó , G. A. H. Schober , V. Kocsis , M. S. Bahramy , H. Murakawa , J. S. Lee , I. Kézsmárki , R. Arita , N. Nagaosa , Y. Tokura

Magnetic topological insulators such as Cr-doped (Bi,Sb)2Te3 provide a platform for the realization of versatile time-reversal symmetry-breaking physics. By constructing heterostructures with N\'eel order in an antiferromagnetic CrSb and…

In the giant Rashba semiconductor BiTeI electronic surface scattering with Lorentzian linewidth is observed that shows a strong dependence on surface termination and surface potential shifts. A comparison with the topological insulator…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 V. Gnezdilov , P. Lemmens , D. Wulferding , A. Möller , P. Recher , H. Berger , R. Sankar , F. C. Chou

We consider the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between magnetic impurities on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator with proximity induced superconductivity. A superconductor placed on the top of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 Alexander A. Zyuzin , Daniel Loss

Magnetic interactions between impurity spins play a crucial role in determining magnetic configurations in spintronic systems. Using a Green's function formalism, we investigate Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) exchange interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Anirban Kundu

Spintronics is aimed at active controlling and manipulating the spin degrees of freedom in semiconductor devices. A promising way to achieve this goal is to make use of the tunable Rashba effect that relies on the spin-orbit interaction…

Both magnetism and spin-orbit coupling in systems with broken inversion symmetry lift the spin degeneracy of electronic bands, but the consequences of interplay between these mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we show that ultrathin…

Manipulating the interlayer magnetic coupling in van der Waals magnetic materials and heterostructures is the key to tailoring their magnetic and electronic properties for various electronic applications and fundamental studies in condensed…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-19 Zhe Li , Jiaheng Li , Ke He , Xiangang Wan , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

We investigate the two-dimensional (2D) highly spin-polarized electron accumulation layers commonly appearing near the surface of n-type polar semiconductors BiTeX (X = I, Br, and Cl) by angular-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Due to…

This work explores the static and dynamic magnetic properties of weakly antiferromagnetically coupled Fe/Ti superlattices, emphasizing the link between magnetic behavior and structural characteristics. HRTEM and XRD analyses confirm…

In commensurate twisted homobilayers, purely radial Rashba spin-orbit fields can emerge. We employ first-principles calculations to investigate the band structures and the spin-orbit fields close to the high-symmetry points $K$ and $\Gamma$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Thomas Naimer , Paulo E. Faria Junior , Klaus Zollner , Jaroslav Fabian

We report on first-principles calculations of multilayers of zinc-blende half-metallic ferromagnets CrAs and CrSb with III-V and II-VI semiconductors, in the [001] orientation. We examine the ideal and tetragonalised structures, as well as…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Ph. Mavropoulos , I. Galanakis , P. H. Dederichs

The magnetic structures of MnBi2Te4(Bi2Te3)n can be manipulated by tuning the interlayer coupling via the number of Bi2Te3 spacer layers n, while the intralayer ferromagnetic (FM) exchange coupling is considered too robust to control. By…

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…