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In this work we show that Rashba-based topological superconductor nanowires, where the spin-orbit coupling may change its sign, support three topological phases protected by chiral symmetry. When a superconducting phase gradient is applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Teemu Ojanen

In the framework of mean field approach, we study topological Mott transition in a two band model of spinless fermions on a square lattice at half filling. We consider the combined effect of the on-site Coulomb repulsion and the spin-orbit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-14 Igor N. Karnaukhov

We present a new technique for producing two- and three-dimensional Rashba-type spin-orbit couplings for ultracold atoms without involving light. The method relies on a sequence of pulsed inhomogeneous magnetic fields imprinting suitable…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-09-24 Brandon M. Anderson , I. B. Spielman , Gediminas Juzeliūnas

We consider Majorana fermions (MFs) in quasi-one-dimensional nanowire systems containing normal and superconducting sections where the topological phase based on Rashba spin orbit interaction can be tuned by magnetic fields. We derive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

$\mathbb{Z}_4$ parafermions can be realized in a strongly interacting quantum spin Hall Josephson junction or in a spin Hall Josephson junction strongly coupled to an impurity spin. In this paper we study a system that has both features,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Yuval Vinkler-Aviv , Piet W. Brouwer , Felix von Oppen

We present an elaborate and systematic study of the conductance properties of a zigzag bilayer graphene nanoribbon modeled by a Kane-Mele (KM) Hamiltonian. The interplay of the Rashba and the intrinsic spin-orbit couplings with the edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Priyanka Sinha , Saurabh Basu

Recently, the steady states of non-unitary free fermion dynamics are found to exhibit novel critical phases with power-law squared correlations and a logarithmic subsystem entanglement. In this work, we theoretically understand the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-17 Pengfei Zhang , Shao-Kai Jian , Chunxiao Liu , Xiao Chen

Spin-spin correlation function response in the low electronic density regime and externally applied electric field is evaluated for 2D metallic crystals under Rashba-type coupling, fixed number of particles and two-fold energy band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-06 H. Vivas

We explore a spin-fermion model with fermion-spin-quadrupolar interaction. In a nematic phase, this interaction reduces to a four-fermion interaction that is a basis of superconductivity. When the coupling constant is positive the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-04-22 Naoum Karchev

Numerical methods are developed in the quantum transport calculations for electron in the waveguides with spin-orbital (Rashba) interaction. The methods are based on a hybrid mode-matching scheme in which the wavefunctions are expressed as…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-09-08 Hang Xie , Feng Jiang , Wei E. I. Sha

We propose and formulate an interaction induced staggered spin-orbit order as a new emergent phase of two-dimensional Fermi gases. We show that when some form of inherent spin-splitting via Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling renders two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-30 Tanmoy Das

Quantum impurity models with frustrated Kondo interactions can support quantum critical points with fractionalized excitations. Recent experiments [arXiv:2108.12691] on a circuit containing two coupled metal-semiconductor islands exhibit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 D. B. Karki , Edouard Boulat , Winston Pouse , David Goldhaber-Gordon , Andrew K. Mitchell , Christophe Mora

We propose a scheme based on topological insulators to generate Kramers pairs of Majorana fermions or parafermions in the complete absence of magnetic fields. Our setup consists of two topological insulators whose edge states are brought…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-05 Jelena Klinovaja , Amir Yacoby , Daniel Loss

The Rashba Hamiltonian describes the splitting of the conduction band as a result of spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an external field and is commonly used to model the electronic structure of confined narrow-gap semiconductors. Due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Laurens W. Molenkamp , Georg Schmidt , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

The strength of the (Rashba-type) spin-orbit coupling in mesoscopic semiconductor rings can be tuned with external gate voltages. Here we consider the case of a periodically changing spin-orbit interaction strength as induced by sinusoidal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Peter Foldi , Mihaly G. Benedict , Orsolya Kalman , F. M. Peeters

We present a lattice model for superconducting fermions whose nearest-neighbour two-body interactions are a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer-type pairing on the hypercubic lattice $\mathbb{Z}^d$ with the dimension $d\ge 3$. Although these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Tohru Koma

We theoretically explore a Rashba spin-orbit coupling scheme which operates entirely in the absolute ground state manifold of an alkali atom, thereby minimizing all inelastic processes. An energy gap between ground eigenstates of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Daniel L. Campbell , Ian B. Spielman

Models with range-free frustrated Ising spin- and Hubbard interaction are treated exactly by means of the discrete time slicing method. Critical and tricritical points, correlations, and the fermion propagator, are derived as a function of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Oppermann , D. Sherrington

Two-dimensional semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures form the foundation of numerous nanoscale physical systems. However, measuring the properties of such heterostructures, and characterizing the semiconductor in-situ is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-01 Serafim S. Babkin , Andrew P. Higginbotham , Maksym Serbyn

The spin degree of freedom is crucial for both understanding and exploiting the particular properties of the edges of two-dimensional topological insulators. In the absence of superconductivity and magnetism, Rashba coupling is the most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Lorenzo Privitera , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Inès Safi , Björn Trauzettel