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A magnetic atomic impurity inside a superconductor locally distorts superconductivity. They scatter Cooper pairs as a potential with broken time-reversal symmetry, what leads to localized bound states with subgap excitation energies, named…

We investigate the impact of impurity scattering on superconductivity in an anisotropic multi-orbital model with spin-orbit coupling which describes the electron fluid at two-dimensional oxide interfaces. As the pairing mechanism is under…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-08-05 Mathias S. Scheurer , Mareike Hoyer , Jörg Schmalian

Since the discovery of iron-based superconductors, a number of theories have been put forward to explain the qualitative origin of pairing, but there have been few attempts to make quantitative, material-specific comparisons to experimental…

The rich variety of iron-based superconductors and their complex electronic structure lead to a wide range of possibilities for gap symmetry and pairing components. Here we solve in the 2-Fe Brillouin zone the full frequency-dependent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-28 R. Nourafkan , G. Kotliar , A. -M. S. Tremblay

The nature of the superconducting state in the recently discovered Fe-based superconductors1-3 is the subject of intense scrutiny. Neutron scattering investigations have already elucidated a strong correlation between magnetism and…

The Heavy Fermion state in UPd2Al3 may be approximately described by a dual model where two of the three U- 5f electrons are in a localized state split by the crystalline electric field into two low lying singlets with a splitting energy of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-02 P. Thalmeier

The quantum dynamics of quasi-one-dimensional ring with varying electron filling factor is investigated in presence of external electric field. The system is modeled within Hubbard Hamiltonian with attractive Coulomb correlation, which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-21 Bradraj Pandey , Sudipta Dutta , Swapan K. Pati

It is well established that a correlated quantum impurity embedded in a metallic host can form the many-body Kondo state with itinerant electrons due to the effective antiferromagnetic coupling. Such effect is manifested spectroscopically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-02-07 M. Zapalska , T. Domanski

The spectrum of a segment of InAs nanowire, confined between two superconducting leads, was measured as function of gate voltage and superconducting phase difference using a third normal-metal tunnel probe. Sub-gap resonances for odd…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-14 W. Chang , V. E. Manucharyan , T. S. Jespersen , J. Nygard , C. M. Marcus

We investigate the effect of electron-electron interactions on proximity-induced $s$-wave superconductivity in one-dimensional nanowires. We treat the interactions on a self-consistent mean-field level, and find an analytic expression for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-30 Jeroen Danon , Karsten Flensberg

A comprehensive inelastic neutron scattering study of magnetic excitations in the near-optimally doped high-temperature superconductor ${\rm YBa_{2}Cu_{3}O_{6.85}}$ is presented. The spin correlations in the normal state are commensurate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Bourges , Y. Sidis , H. F. Fong , L. P. Regnault , J. Bossy , A. Ivanov , B. Keimer

We study quantum degenerate ultra-cold Fermi gases in the presence of artificial spin-orbit coupling and crossed Zeeman fields. We emphasize the case where parity is violated in the excitation spectrum and compare it with the simpler…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-11-22 Kangjun Seo , Li Han , C. A. R. Sá de Melo

In recent measurements of tunneling transport through individual ferromagnetic Co nanograins, Deshmukh, Gu\'eron, Ralph et al. \cite{mandar,gueron} (DGR) observed a tunneling spectrum with discrete resonances, whose spacing was much smaller…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Silvia Kleff , Jan von Delft

Magnetic impurities on superconductors induce discrete bound levels inside the superconducting gap, known as Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states. YSR levels are fully spin-polarized such that the tunneling between YSR states depends on their…

Systems in which exchange interactions couple carrier spins to a spin texture with a net chirality exhibit a spin-dependent Aharonov-Bohm effect, where the geometric gauge field and pseudo-magnetic field have opposite signs for carriers…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-31 Zhiyu Dong , Leonid Levitov , Patrick A. Lee

Electron-hole pairs can be excited coherently in a quantum conductor by applying voltage pulses on its contact. We find that these electron-hole pairs can be classified into two kinds, whose excitation probabilities have different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 X. K. Yue , Y. Yin

We show how superconductors can be used to couple, initialize, and read out spatially separated spin qubits. When two single-electron quantum dots are tunnel coupled to the same superconductor, the singlet component of the two-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-05 Martin Leijnse , Karsten Flensberg

We describe gapped single-particle and collective excitations across a superfluid to insulator quantum phase transition of particles (bosons or fermions) in a periodic potential, with an even number of particles per unit cell. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-04-05 Stephen Powell , Subir Sachdev

We study the charged excitations of a double layer at filling factor 2 in the ferromagnetic regime. In a wide range of Zeeman and tunneling splittings we find that the low energy charged excitations are spin-isospin textures with the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Paredes , C. Tejedor , L. Brey , L. Martin-Moreno

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