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A common path to superconducting spintronics, Majorana fermions, and topologically-protected quantum computing relies on spin-triplet superconductivity. While naturally occurring spin-triplet pairing is elusive and even common spin-triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-05 Thomas Vezin , Chenghao Shen , Jong E. Han , Igor Žutić

Magnetic interactions are widely believed to play a crucial role in the microscopic mechanism leading to high critical temperature superconductivity. It is therefore important to study the signatures of pairing in the magnetic excitation…

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We illuminate the superconducting phases in [001]-grown-noncentrosymmetric quantum wells with an anisotropic spin-orbit coupling in the presence of on-site Hubbard interaction. Within the random phase approximation, we investigate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-20 Mehdi Biderang , Mohammad-Hossein Zare , Alireza Akbari

We study tunneling conductance in normal metal / insulator / ferromagnetic superconductor junctions. The tunneling spectra show a clear difference between spin-singlet s-wave pairing, spin-triplet opposite spin pairing and spin-triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Yokoyama , Y. Tanaka

We present a numerical analysis of spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ fermions in a one-dimensional harmonic potential in the presence of a magnetic point-like impurity at the center of the trap. The model represents a few-body analogue of a magnetic…

Topological superconductors are foreseen as good candidates for the search of Majorana zero modes, where they appear as edge states and can be used for quantum computation. In this context, it becomes necessary to study the robustness and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Dunkan Martínez , Álvaro Díaz-Fernández , Pedro A Orellana , Francisco Domínguez-Adame

When the exchange interaction between the impurity spin and the spins of itinerant quasiparticles are strong or weak enough, the ground states for a magnetic impurity in a superconductor are the screened or free spins, respectively. In both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-01 T. Machida , Y. Nagai , T. Hanaguri

As a probe to determine the pairing symmetry of quasi-two-dimensional anisotropic superconductors, we propose tunneling spectroscopy in the presence of magnetic field, where the magnetic field is parallel to the two dimensional planes and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Tanuma , Y. Tanaka , K. Kuroki , S. Kashiwaya

High energy resolution spectroscopic studies of quantum magnets have proven to be extremely valuable in directly accessing magnetodynamics quantities, such as energy barriers, magnetic interactions, lifetime of excited states and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-17 Sascha Brinker , Felix Küster , Stuart S. P. Parkin , Paolo Sessi , Samir Lounis

We show that dilute magnetic impurities in a conventional superconductor give origin to an odd-frequency component of superconductivity, manifesting itself in Yu-Shiba-Rusinov bands forming within the bulk superconducting gap. Our results…

We investigate the single and multiple defects embedded in a superconducting host, studying interplay between the proximity induced pairing and interactions. We explore influence of the spin-orbit coupling on energies, polarization and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-08 S. Glodzik , A. Kobialka , A. Gorczyca-Goraj , A. Ptok , G. Gorski , M. M. Maska , T. Domanski

Motivated by recent advances in the creation of few-body atomic Fermi gases with attractive interactions, we study theoretically the few-to-many-particle crossover of pair excitations, which for large particle numbers evolve into a mode…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-12-04 Fabian Resare , Johannes Hofmann

Superconductor-ferromagnetic heterostructures have been suggested as one of the most promising alternatives of realizing odd-frequency superconductivity. In this work we consider the limit of shrinking the ferromagnetic region to the limit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-11 Dushko Kuzmanovski , Rubén Seoane Souto , Alexander V. Balatsky

We study a hybrid quantum system consisting of spin ensembles and superconducting flux qubits, where each spin ensemble is realized using the nitrogen-vacancy centers in a diamond crystal and the nearest-neighbor spin ensembles are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-11 Yueyin Qiu , Wei Xiong , Lin Tian , J. Q. You

Spectroscopic measurements with low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopes have been used very successfully for studying not only individual atomic or molecular spins on surfaces but also complexly designed coupled systems. The symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-28 Markus Ternes

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 argue that spin-sensitive quasiparticle scattering may generate electron-hole imbalance in superconducting structures, such as, e.g., superconducting-normal hybrids with spin-active interfaces. We elucidate a transparent physical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-10-03 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

The origin of unconventional superconductivity, including high-temperature and heavy-fermion superconductivity, is still a matter of controversy. Spin excitations instead of phonons are thought to be responsible for the formation of Cooper…

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…

A Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) state is a localized in-gap state induced by a magnetic impurity in a superconductor. Recent experiments used an STM tip to manipulate the exchange coupling between an Fe adatom and the ${\rm FeTe}_{0.55}{\rm…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-09 Ching-Kai Chiu , Ziqiang Wang