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We study a chain of magnetic impurities on a conventional superconductor with spin-orbit coupling, treating the superconducting order fully self-consistently. We find and quantify strong hybridization between the topological edge Majorana…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-12-11 Andreas Theiler , Kristofer Björnson , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Chains of magnetic atoms placed on the surface of an s-wave superconductor with large spin-orbit coupling provide a promising platform for the realization of topological superconducting states characterized by the presence of Majorana…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-20 Junhua Zhang , Younghyun Kim , E. Rossi , Roman M. Lutchyn

We consider a one-dimensional system combining local magnetic moments and a delocalized metallic band on top of a superconducting substrate. This system can describe a chain of magnetic impurities with both localized polarized orbitals and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Gian Marcello Andolina , Pascal Simon

We show that a chain of nonmagnetic impurities deposited on a fully gapped two- or three-dimensional superconductor can become a topological one-dimensional superconductor with protected Majorana bound states at its end. A prerequisite is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-22 Titus Neupert , Ali Yazdani , B. Andrei Bernevig

We revisit the problem of Majorana states in chains of scalar impurities deposited on a superconductor with a mixed s-wave and p-wave pairing. We also study the formation of Majorana states for magnetic impurity chains. We find that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-11 Nicholas Sedlmayr , Cristina Bena

Recently, it has been suggested that topological superconductivity and Majorana end states can be realized in a chain of magnetic impurities on the surface of an s-wave superconductor when the magnetic moments form a spin helix as a result…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-17 Falko Pientka , Leonid I. Glazman , Felix von Oppen

Magnetic superconductors define a broad class of strongly correlated materials in which superconductivity may coexist with either localized or itinerant long-range magnetic order. In this work we consider a multiband model of a disordered…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-02 Maxim Dzero , Alex Levchenko

We consider the effects of magnetic impurities on the surface of superconducting Cu doped $Bi_{2}Se_{3}$ in the odd parity pairing phase which support topologically protected Majorana fermions surface states with linear spectrum. We show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-01-11 Ting-Pong Choy , K. T. Law , Tai-Kai Ng

We theoretically study the spectrum induced by one and two magnetic impurities near the boundary of a one-dimensional nanowire in proximity to a conventional $s$-wave superconductor and extract the ground state magnetic configuration. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Oindrila Deb , Silas Hoffman , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We show that standard impurities, magnetic or nonmagnetic, weak or strong, can cause topological phase transitions inside the vortex cores of a conventional s-wave superconductor. Because of the nonzero angular momentum of Cooper pairs in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-20 Shengshan Qin , Chen Fang , Fu-chun Zhang , Jiangping Hu

We investigate the possibility of realizing a topological state in the impurity band formed by a chain of classical spins embedded in a two-dimensional singlet superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. In contrast to similar proposals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-23 P. M. R. Brydon , S. Das Sarma , Hoi-Yin Hui , Jay D. Sau

Magnetic impurities on the surface of spin-orbit coupled but otherwise conventional superconductors provide a promising way to engineer topological superconductors with Majorana bound states as for boundary modes. In this work, we show that…

In superconductors, magnetic impurities induce a pair-breaking potential for Cooper pairs, which locally affects the Bogoliubov quasiparticles and gives rise to Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR or Shiba, in short) bound states in the density of states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Benjamin W. Heinrich , Jose I. Pascual , Katharina J. Franke

We study topography of the spin-polarized bound states of magnetic impurities embedded in triangular lattice of a superconducting host. Such states have been observed experimentally in 2H-NbSe$_{2}$ crystal [G. C. M'enard et al., Nat.Phys.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-11-30 Andrzej Ptok , Szczepan Głodzik , Tadeusz Domański

We study a chain of magnetic moments exchange coupled to a conventional three dimensional superconductor. In the normal state the chain orders into a collinear configuration, while in the superconducting phase we find that ferromagnetism is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-27 M. Schecter , K. Flensberg , M. H. Christensen , B. M. Andersen , J. Paaske

Magnetic impurities have a dramatic effect on superconductivity by breaking the time-reversal symmetry and inducing so-called Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) low energy bound states within the superconducting gap. The spatial extent of YSR states is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Shawulienu Kezilebieke , Marc Dvorak , Teemu Ojanen , Peter Liljeroth

Magnetic impurities at surfaces of superconductors can induce bound states referred to as Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states within superconducting gaps. Understanding of YSR states with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) plays a pivotal role in studies…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-14 Kyungwha Park , Bendeguz Nyari , Andras Laszloffy , Laszlo Szunyogh , Balazs Ujfalussy

The nature of the superconducting state in two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides remains under active debate. A widely used description invokes so-called Ising superconductivity. In this work, we investigate theoretically this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-14 Michael Hein , Juan Carlos Cuevas , Wolfgang Belzig

There is presently a tremendous activity around the field of topological superconductivity and Majorana fermions. Among the many questions raised, it has become increasingly important to establish the topological or non-topological origin…

We investigate the persistent currents, spin-polarized local density of states, and spectral functions of topological superconductors constructed by placing ferromagnetic impurities on top of an s-wave superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit…

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