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Based on the quantum kinetic equations for systems with SU(2) structure, regularization-free density and pseudospin currents are calculated in graphene realized as the infinite mass-limit of electrons with quadratic dispersion and a proper…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-13 K. Morawetz

We study the interplay between superconductivity and altermagnetism in disordered systems using recently derived quantum kinetic transport equations. Starting from this framework, we derive the Ginzburg-Landau free energy and identify, in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-05 Rodrigo de las Heras , Tim Kokkeler , Stefan Ilić , Ilya V. Tokatly , F. Sebastian Bergeret

The recent observations of the superconducting diode effect pose the challenge to fully understand the necessary ingredients for non-reciprocal phenomena in superconductors. In this theoretical work, we focus on the non-reciprocity of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-30 Tatiana de Picoli , Zane Blood , Yuli Lyanda-Geller , Jukka I. Väyrynen

We develop and study theoretically a minimal model of semiconductor nanowire Josephson junction that incorporates Zeeman and spin-orbit effects. The DC Josephson current is evaluated from the phase-dependent energies of Andreev levels. Upon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Tomohiro Yokoyama , Yuli V. Nazarov

We theoretically study the profile of a supercurrent in two-dimensional Josephson junctions with Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction (RDSOI) in the presence of a Zeeman field. Through investigating self-biased supercurrent (so called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Mohammad Alidoust

We describe the far from equilibrium non-local transport in a diffusive superconducting wire with a Zeeman splitting, taking into account the different spin relaxation mechanisms. We demonstrate that due to the Zeeman splitting an injection…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Silaev , P. Virtanen , F. S. Bergeret , T. T. Heikkilä

We consider DC supercurrents in SNS junctions. Spin-orbit coupling in combination with Zeeman fields can induce an effective vector potential in the normal conductor. As a consequence, an out-of-plane spin-density varying along the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-09 A. G. Mal'shukov , Severin Sadjina , Arne Brataas

The supercurrent diode effect (SDE), characterized by unequal critical currents in opposite directions, has been observed with or without magnetic fields, yet mechanisms enabling zero-field SDE without explicit symmetry breaking remain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-16 Yiheng Sun , Zhenyu Zhang , James Jun He

A strongly spin-orbital coupled systems could be in a magnetic ordered phase at zero field. However, a Zeeman field could drive it into different quantum or topological phases. In this work, starting from general symmetry principle, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-01 Fadi Sun , Jinwu Ye

Fermi-surface spin splitting generated by non-relativistic exchange fields provides a new route to topological superconductivity without relying on strong spin-orbit coupling. Here, we study superconducting instabilities of a square-lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-05 Kyoung-Min Kim , Gibaik Sim , Moon Jip Park

Topologically non-trivial superconductivity has been predicted to occur in superconductors with a sizable spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an external Zeeman splitting. Two such systems have been proposed: (a) s-wave superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-06-07 Sumanta Tewari , Tudor D. Stanescu , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

Persistent currents (PCs) in mesoscopic rings have been a subject of intense investigation since their proposal by B\"uttiker, Landauer, and Imry in 1983. In this paper, we explore the behavior of PC in spin-orbit coupled rings under the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Bijay Kumar Sahoo , Subroto Mukerjee , Abhiram Soori

In a one-dimensional weak-link wire the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) alone cannot generate a nonzero spin current. We show that a Zeeman field acting in the wire in conjunction with the Rashba SOI there does yield such a current, whose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 A. Aharony , O. Entin-Wohlman , M. Jonson , R. I. Shekhter

Fully gapped, spin singlet superconductors with antisymmetric spin-orbit coupling in a Zeeman magnetic field provide a promising route to realize superconducting states with non-Abelian topological order and therefore fault-tolerant quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-14 Peter Doak , Giovanni Balduzzi , Pontus Laurell , Elbio Dagotto , Thomas A. Maier

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

Junctions created by coupling two superconductors via a semiconductor nanowire in the presence of high magnetic fields are the basis for detection, fusion, and braiding of Majorana bound states. We study NbTiN/InSb nanowire/NbTiN Josephson…

We investigate the competition between pairing correlations and ferromagnetism in small metallic grains in the presence of a Zeeman field. Our analysis is based on the universal Hamiltonian, valid in the limit of large Thouless conductance.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Schmidt , Y. Alhassid , K. Van Houcke

We study the energy spectrum and the electromagnetic response of Andreev bound states in short Josephson junctions made of semiconducting nanowires. We focus on the joint effect of Zeeman and spin-orbit coupling on the Andreev level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-15 B. van Heck , J. I. Väyrynen , L. I. Glazman

Using the path-integral formulation we derive microscopically a Ginzburg-Landau free energy with a Zeeman coupling between the magnetic field and the orbital angular momentum of the Cooper pairs in a superconductor with singlet pairing in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Qiang-Hua Wang , Z. D. Wang

We study the proximity-induced superconducting state in a general bilayer -- conventional $s$-wave superconductor hybrid structure. For the bilayer we include a general parabolic dispersion, Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and finite layer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-03 Fariborz Parhizgar , Annica M. Black-Schaffer