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Ferromagnetic semiconductors play a crucial role in spintronic devices, enabling effective control of electron spin over charge. This study explores their unique properties, ongoing advancements in spin control, and potential integration…

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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…

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This article explores the deep interconnections among three seemingly unrelated concepts in condensed matter physics: electronic liquid crystal phases, multipole expansions, and altermagnetism. At the heart of these phenomena lies a shared…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-13 Zhao Liu , Hui Hu , Xia-Ji Liu

A new class of phenomena discussed in this review is based on interaction between spatially separated, but closely located ferromagnets and superconductors. They are called Ferromagnet-Superconductor Hybrids (FSH). These systems include…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 I. F. Lyuksyutov , V. L. Pokrovsky

Magnetic skyrmions, the topological states possessing chiral magnetic structure with nontrivial topology, have been widely investigated as a promising candidate for spintronic devices. They can also couple with superconducting vortices to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-22 Yong-Jie Xie , Ang Qian , Bin He , Yu-Biao Wu , Sheng Wang , Bing Xu , Guoqiang Yu , Xiufeng Han , X. G. Qiu

In this Perspective article, we explore some of the promising spin and topology material platforms (e.g. spins in semi- and superconductors, skyrmionic, topological and 2D materials) being developed for such quantum components as qubits,…

We study the physical properties of a ballistic heterostructure made of a ferromagnet (FM) and a spin-triplet superconductor (TSC) with a layered structure stacking along the direction perpendicular to the planes where a chiral px+ipy…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-25 Damien Terrade , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco , Dirk Manske

We study the spin and charge currents flowing at the interface of an itinerant ferromagnet with a topological spin-triplet superconductor having different number of time-reversal-invariant Majorana helical modes. Depending on the number of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-30 Damien Terrade , Dirk Manske , Mario Cuoco

The increased capabilities of coupling more and more materials through functional interfaces are paving the way to a series of exciting experiments and extremely advanced devices. Here we focus on the capability of magnetically…

We review progress in the development and applications of superconducting metamaterials. The review is organized in terms of several distinct advantages and unique properties brought to the metamaterials field by superconductivity. These…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-05-30 Philipp Jung , Alexey V. Ustinov , Steven M. Anlage

The magnetic correlations at the superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F) interfaces play a crucial role in realizing dissipation-less spin-based logic and memory technologies, such as triplet-supercurrent spin-valves and "{\pi}" Josephson…

A topological superconductor features at its boundaries and vortices Majorana fermions, which are potentially applicable for topological quantum computations. The scarcity of the known experimentally verified physical systems with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-18 Minseong Lee , Hyun-Jae Lee , Jun Hee Lee , Suk Bum Chung

The recent demonstrations of electrical manipulation and detection of antiferromagnetic spins have opened up a chapter in the spintronics story. In this article, we review the emerging research field that is exploring synergies between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-05 Libor Šmejkal , Yuriy Mokrousov , Binghai Yan , Allan H. MacDonald

We bring forward a unified framework for the study of the superfluid stiffness and the quantum capacitance of superconducting platforms exhibiting conventional spin-singlet pairing. We focus on systems which in their normal phase contain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-14 Jun-Ang Wang , Mohamed Assili , Panagiotis Kotetes

We investigate a heterostructure system with a spin-orbit coupled semiconductor sandwiched by an s-wave superconductor and a ferromagnetic insulator, which supports Majorana fermions (MFs) at the superconducting vortex cores. We propose a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 Long-Hua Wu , Qi-Feng Liang , Zhi Wang , Xiao Hu

We argue that odd-frequency triplet superconductivity can be conveniently realized in hybrid superconductor-ferromagnet (SF) structures with a ferromagnetic vortex. We demonstrate that due to proximity-induced long-range triplet pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-08-17 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin , Victor T. Petrashov

The discovery of materials that simultaneously host different phases of matter has often initially confounded, but ultimately enhanced, our basic understanding of the coexisting types of order. The associated intellectual challenges,…

Spin-triplet Cooper pairs induced in ferromagnets form the centrepiece of the emerging field of superconducting spintronics [1,2]. Usually the focus of research is on the spin polarization of the triplets, potentially enabling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Kaveh Lahabi , Morten Amundsen , Jabir Ali Ouassou , Ewout Beukers , Menno Pleijster , Jacob Linder , Paul Alkemade , Jan Aarts

We consider a model of ballistic quasi-one dimensional semiconducting wire with intrinsic spin-orbit interaction placed on the surface of a bulk s-wave superconductor (SC), in the presence of an external magnetic field. This setup has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 A. A. Zyuzin , Diego Rainis , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Since its discovery more than a century ago, superconductivity has been at the epicentre of condensed matter physics research. The electron phonon coupling in conventional superconductors, which obeys BCS theory, causes an attractive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-22 K. Panda