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The mutual competition and synergy of magnetism and superconductivity provide us with a very valuable opportunity to access topological superconductivity and Majorana Fermions. Here, we devise a heterostructure consisting of an $s$-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-13 Yu-Xuan Li , Cheng-Cheng Liu

Due to the structure of the underlying SO(3) $\mathbf d$-vector order parameter, spin triplet superconductors exhibit a bulk-edge correspondence linking the circulation of supercurrent to the bulk magnetic skyrmion density, giving rise to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Chau Dao , Eric Kleinherbers , Bjørnulf Brekke , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

The difference between the phases of superconducting order parameter plays in superconducting circuits the role similar to that played by the electrostatic potential difference required to drive a current in conventional circuits. This…

This review elaborates pedagogically on the fundamental concept, basic theory, expected properties, and materials realizations of topological superconductors. The relation between topological superconductivity and Majorana fermions are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-18 Masatoshi Sato , Yoichi Ando

Majarona fermions (MFs) were predicted more than seven decades ago but are yet to be identified [1]. Recently, much attention has been paid to search for MFs in condensed matter systems [2-10]. One of the seaching schemes is to create MF at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-02 Fanming Qu , Fan Yang , Jie Shen , Yue Ding , Jun Chen , Zhongqing Ji , Guangtong Liu , Jie Fan , Xiunian Jing , Changli Yang , Li Lu

The interface between a ferromagnetic metal and an organic molecular semiconductor, commonly referred to as a spinterface, is an important component for advancing spintronic technologies. Hybridization of the ferromagnetic-metal surface d…

The spin polarization (SP) of the ferromagnet (FM) is a quantity of fundamental importance in spintronics. In this work, we propose a quasi-one-dimensional junction structure composed of a FM and a time-reversal invariant topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 Zhongbo Yan , Shaolong Wan

As a novel function of ferromagnet (FM)/spacer/FM junctions, we theoretically investigate multiple-valued (or multi-level) cell property, which is in principle realized by sensing conductances of four states recorded with magnetization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Satoshi Kokado , Kikuo Harigaya

Antiferromagnetic materials could represent the future of spintronic applications thanks to the numerous interesting features they combine: they are robust against perturbation due to magnetic fields, produce no stray fields, display…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-20 V. Baltz , A. Manchon , M. Tsoi , T. Moriyama , T. Ono , Y. Tserkovnyak

Over the last decade, the possibility of realizing topological superconductivity (TSC) has generated much excitement, mainly due to the potential use of its excitations (Majorana zero modes) in a fault-tolerant topological quantum computer…

We study heterostructures of singlet superconductors (SC) and strongly spin-polarized ferromagnets (sFM) and show that a relative phase arises between the superconducting proximity amplitudes in the two ferromagnetic spin bands. We find a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-08-11 R. Grein , M. Eschrig , G. Metalidis , Gerd Schön

Improving our understanding of the physical coupling between type-II superconductors (SC) and soft ferromagnetic materials (SFM), is root for progressing onto the application of SC-SFM metastructures in scenarios such as magnetic cloaking,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-22 M. U. Fareed , H. S. Ruiz

Electrical switching of antiferromagnets is an exciting recent development in spintronics, which promises active antiferromagnetic devices with high speed and low energy cost. In this emerging field, there is an active debate about the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Yang Cheng , Egecan Cogulu , Rachel D. Resnick , Justin J. Michel , Nahuel N. Statuto , Andrew D. Kent , Fengyuan Yang

We study two different superconductor-ferromagnet (S/F) structures. We consider first a Josephson junction which consists of two S/F bilayers separated by an insulating layer. We show that for an antiparallel alignment of the magnetization…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 F. S. Bergeret , A. F. Volkov , K. B. Efetov

The heavy-fermion system $\mathrm{UTe_2}$ is a candidate for spin-triplet superconductivity, which is of considerable interest to quantum engineering. Among the outstanding issues is the nature of the pairing state. A recent surprising…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-30 Lei Chen , Haoyu Hu , Christopher Lane , Emilian M. Nica , Jian-Xin Zhu , Qimiao Si

Charge and spin Josephson currents in a ballistic superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junction with spin-triplet pairing symmetry are studied using the quasiclassical Eilenberger equation. The gap vector of superconductors has an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 Yousef Rahnavard , Gholamreza Rashedi , Takehito Yokoyama

We consider a general Hamiltonian describing coexistence of itinerant ferromagnetism, spin-orbit coupling and mixed spin-singlet/triplet superconducting pairing in the context of mean-field theory. The Hamiltonian is diagonalized and exact…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Linder , A. Sudbø

The split superconducting transition of up-spin and down-spin electrons on the background of ferromagnetism is studied within the framework of a recent model that describes the coexistence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity induced by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick

Superconducting spintronics has emerged in the last decade as a promising new field that seeks to open a new dimension for nanoelectronics by utilizing the internal spin structure of the superconducting Cooper pair as a new degree of…

We propose a novel platform for the creation and manipulation of Majorana zero modes consisting of a ferromagnetic metallic wire placed between conventional superconductors which are in proximity to ferromagnetic insulators. Our device…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-16 Giorgos Livanas , Nikos Vanas , Manfred Sigrist , Georgios Varelogiannis