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Spin-split superconductors offer new functionality compared to conventional superconductors such as diode-effects and efficient thermoelectricity. The superconducting state can nevertheless only withstand a small amount of spin-splitting.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-15 Johanne Bratland Tjernshaugen , Morten Amundsen , Jacob Linder

Unexpected, yet useful functionalities emerge when two or more materials merge coherently. Artificial oxide superlattices realize atomic and crystal structures that are not available in nature, thus providing controllable correlated quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-29 Seung Gyo Jeong , Jin Young Oh , Lin Hao , Jian Liu , Woo Seok Choi

We investigate the correlation effects on spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in a two-orbital Hubbard model on a square lattice by applying the variational Monte Carlo method. We consider an effective SOC constant $\lambda_{\text{eff}}$ in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-11 Katsunori Kubo

During the past 15 years a new field has emerged, which combines superconductivity and spintronics, with the goal to pave a way for new types of devices for applications combining the virtues of both by offering the possibility of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-02 M. Eschrig

We have investigated the mechanism of stabilizing the simple-cubic (SC) structure in polonium (alpha- Po), based on the phonon dispersion calculations using the first-principles all-electron band method. We have demonstrated that the stable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-08-31 Chang-Jong Kang , Kyoo Kim , B. I. Min

We study spin-dependent diffusive transport in the presence of a tunable spin-orbit (SO) interaction in a two-dimensional electron system. The spin precession of an electron in the SO coupling field is expressed in terms of a covariant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Shimul Akhanjee

We discuss phenomena arising from the combined influence of electron correlation and spin-orbit coupling, with an emphasis on emergent quantum phases and transitions in heavy transition metal compounds with 4d and 5d elements. A common…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-14 William Witczak-Krempa , Gang Chen , Yong Baek Kim , Leon Balents

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is responsible for a range of spintronic and topological processes in condensed matter. Here we show photonic analogs of SOCs in exciton-polaritons and their condensates in microcavities composed of birefringent…

The exchange interaction at interfaces between superconductors (SCs) and ferromagnets (FMs) has been a central topic in condensed matter physics for many decades, starting with the prediction of exotic phases such as the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-09 Tao Yu , Xi-Han Zhou , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Irina Bobkova

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) emerging at the interfaces of superconducting magnetic tunnel junctions is at the heart of multiple unprecedented physical phenomena, covering triplet proximity effects induced by unconventional (spin-flip) Andreev…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-19 Andreas Costa , Jaroslav Fabian

Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor systems have received a great deal of attention in the last few years because of their potential for quantum engineering, including novel qubits and topological devices. The proximity effect, the process…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 D. Michel Pino , Rubén Seoane-Souto , Maria José Calderón , Ramón Aguado , José Carlos Abadillo-Uriel

Superconducting quantum devices provide excellent connectivity and controllability while semiconductor spin qubits stand out with their long-lasting quantum coherence, fast control, and potential for miniaturization and scaling. In the last…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Mónica Benito , Guido Burkard

Superconductor$-$ferromagnetic-insulator heterostructures are paradigmatic systems for studying the mutual influence of superconductivity and magnetism via proximity effects. In particular, spin-split superconductivity is realized in such…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-12 A. S. Ianovskaia , A. M. Bobkov , I. V. Bobkova

The spin-orbit coupling can lead to exotic states of matter and unexpected behavior of the system properties. In this paper, we investigate the influence of spin-orbit coupling induced by proximity effects on a monolayer of superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-09 Andrzej Ptok , Karen Rodríguez , Konrad Jerzy Kapcia

Tunable synthetic spin-orbit coupling (s-SOC) is one of the key challenges in various quantum systems, such as ultracold atomic gases, topological superconductors, and semiconductor quantum dots. Here we experimentally demonstrate…

Although the pairing glue for the attractive quasiparticle interaction responsible for unconventional superconductivity in heavy electron materials has been identified as the spin fluctuations that arise from their proximity to a magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-03 Yi-feng Yang , David Pines

In this study, we propose an alternative route to achieving topological superconductivity (TSC). Our approach applies to a new class of correlated noncentrosymmetric materials that host two spin-split Fermi surfaces with identical spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-28 Lichuan Wang , Ran Wang , Xinliang Huang , Xianxin Wu , Ning Hao

We perform a systematic exact diagonalization study of spin-orbit coupling effects for stationary few-electron states confined in quasi two-dimensional double quantum dots. We describe the spin-orbit-interaction induced coupling between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-17 M. P. Nowak , B. Szafran

We derive an effective Hamiltonian which describes the dynamics of electrons in the conduction band of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) in the presence of perpendicular electric and magnetic fields. We discuss in detail both the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Andor Kormányos , Viktor Zólyomi , Neil D. Drummond , Guido Burkard

We theoretically study the effect of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on anomalous quantum oscillations in InAs/GaSb quantum wells. By comparing different cases, we show that SOC induces two opposing effects on anomalous quantum oscillations: it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Xinlong Du , Chao Wang , Bo Ying , Juntao Song