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Unconventional features in superconductivity are revealed by responses to impurity scattering. We study non-magnetic impurity effects in a three-dimensional topological superconductor, focusing on an effective model (massive Dirac…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-11-06 Yuki Nagai , Yukihiro Ota , Masahiko Machida

We investigate the proximity effect in diffusive superconducting hybrid structures with a spin-orbit (SO) coupling. Our study is focused on the singlet-triplet conversion and the generation of long-range superconducting correlations in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 F. S. Bergeret , I. V. Tokatly

We study the influence of the inverse proximity effect on the superconductivity nucleation in hybrid structures consisting of the semiconducting nanowires placed in contact with a thin superconducting film and discuss the resulting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-04-17 Alexander A. Kopasov , Ivan M. Khaymovich , Alexander S. Mel'nikov

We study the proximity-induced superconducting correlations in a normal metal connected to a superconductor when the interface between them is spin-active and the normal metal is ballistic or diffusive. Remarkably, for any interface spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob Linder , Takehito Yokoyama , Asle Sudbø , Matthias Eschrig

Finite-momentum pairing in a Pauli-limited spin-singlet superconductor arises from the pair-breaking effects of an external Zeeman field, a mechanism which is not applicable in odd-parity spin-triplet superconductors. However, in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-17 Jonathan Clepkens , Hae-Young Kee

It is well-known that the cornerstone of the proximity effect in superconductor/ferromagnet heterostructures is a generation of triplet Cooper pairs from singlet Cooper pairs inherent in a conventional superconductor. This proximity effect…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-25 I. V. Bobkova , G. A. Bobkov , V. M. Gordeeva , A. M. Bobkov

Spin transport in superconductors offers a compelling platform to merge the dissipationless nature of superconductivity with the functional promise of spin-based electronics. A significant challenge in achieving spin polarisation in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Aleix Barrera , Huidong Li , Thomas Gunkel , Jordi Alcalà , Silvia Damerio , Can Onur Avci , Anna Palau

Hybrid semiconducting nanowire devices combining epitaxial superconductor and ferromagnetic insulator layers have been recently explored experimentally as an alternative platform for topological superconductivity at zero applied magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Samuel D. Escribano , Elsa Prada , Yuval Oreg , Alfredo Levy Yeyati

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) relates to the interaction between an electron's motion and its spin, and is ubiquitous in solid-state systems. Although the effect of SOC in normal-state phenomena has been extensively studied, its role in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-02 Morten Amundsen , Jacob Linder , Jason W. A. Robinson , Igor Žutić , Niladri Banerjee

We analyze the real-space paired state with the $\mathbf{k}$-dependent superconducting gap in the presence of Rashba type spin-orbit coupling and external magnetic field. We show that the $extended$ $s$-$wave$ pairing symmetry is the most…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-30 M. Zegrodnik , P. Wójcik

Odd-frequency triplet Cooper pairs are believed to be the carriers of long-range superconducting correlations in ferromagnets. Such triplet pairs are generated by inhomogeneous magnetism at the interface between a superconductor (S) and a…

We report a novel phenomenon intimately related to the spin-triplet superconductivity. It is well known that the spin susceptibility decreases below the superconducting transition temperature in almost all superconductors because of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-28 K. Ishida , M. Manago , T. Yamanaka , H. Fukazawa , Z. Q. Mao , Y. Maeno , K. Miyake

We investigate the combined effect of Hund's and spin-orbit (SO) coupling on superconductivity in multi-orbital systems. Hund's interaction leads to orbital-singlet spin-triplet superconductivity, where the Cooper pair wave function is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 Christoph M. Puetter , Hae-Young Kee

Non-local quasiparticles in correlated quantum materials can exhibit the proximity effect. For instance, in metal superconductor hybrid systems, the leaking of cooper pairs to the metallic region induces superconducting correlations in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-29 Anurag Banerjee , Louis Haurie , Catherine Pépin

Interest in superconducting proximity effect has been revived by the exploitation of Andreev states and by the possible emergence of Majorana bound states at the interface. Spectroscopy of these states has been so far restricted to just a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-29 Rui-Feng Wang , Yan-Ling Xiong , Qun Zhu , Ming-Qiang Ren , Hang Yan , Can-Li Song , Xu-Cun Ma , Qi-Kun Xue

We obtain the general conditions for the emergence of odd-frequency superconducting pairing in a two-dimensional (2D) electronic system proximity-coupled to a superconductor, making minimal assumptions about both the 2D system and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-08 Christopher Triola , Driss M. Badiane , Alexander V. Balatsky , E. Rossi

Investigating the microscopic details of the proximity effect is crucial for both key experimental applications and fundamental inquiries into nanoscale devices featuring superconducting elements. In this work, we develop a framework…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Siddhant Midha , Roshni Singh , Kaveh Gharavi , Jonathan Baugh , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

Recent experiments have shown that the nonzero center of mass momentum pair density wave (PDW) is a widespread phenomenon observed over different superconducting materials. However, concrete theoretical model realizations of the PDW order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-19 Yi Zhang , Ziqiang Wang

Advances in scaling down heterostructures and having an improved interface quality together with atomically-thin two-dimensional materials suggest a novel approach to systematically design materials. A given material can be transformed…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-22 Igor Zutic , Alex Matos-Abiague , Benedikt Scharf , Hanan Dery , Kirill Belashchenko

In superconductors, electrons with spin ${s=1/2}$ form Cooper pairs whose spin structure is usually singlet (${S=0}$) or triplet (${S=1}$). When the electronic structure near the Fermi level is characterized by fermions with angular…