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Motivated by recent experiments [Nat. Phys. $\textbf{16}$, 1227 (2020)], we present here a theoretical study of the DC Josephson effect in a system comprising two magnetic impurities coupled to their respective superconducting electrodes…

A magnetic impurity interacting with a superconductor develops a rich excitation spectrum formed by superposition of quasiparticles and spin states, which appear as Yu-Shiba-Rusinov and spin-flip excitations in tunneling spectra. Here, we…

Using both the self-consistent Bogoliubov-de Gennes formulation and non-self-consistent T-matrix approach, we perform a comprehensive investigation of the in-gap bound states induced by a localized single impurity in iron-based…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Wei-Feng Tsai , Yan-Yang Zhang , Chen Fang , Jiangping Hu

We reveal that the interplay between Rashba spin-orbit coupling and proximity-induced magnetization in a two-dimensional electron gas leads to peculiar transport properties and large anisotropy of magnetoresistance. While the related…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Chenghao Shen , Timothy Leeney , Alex Matos-Abiague , Benedikt Scharf , Jong E. Han , Igor Zutic

Topological states of matter support quantized nondissipative responses and exotic quantum particles that cannot be accessed in common materials. The exceptional properties and application potential of topological materials have triggered a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 Kim Pöyhönen , Isac Sahlberg , Alex Westström , Teemu Ojanen

We calculate the spatially resolved tunneling conductance of topological superconductors (TSCs) based on ferromagnetic chains, measured by means of spin-polarised scanning tunneling microscopy (SPSTM). Our analysis reveals novel signatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-22 Panagiotis Kotetes , Daniel Mendler , Andreas Heimes , Gerd Schön

Revealing the energy and spatial characteristics of impurity induced states in superconductors is essential for understanding their mechanism and fabricating new quantum state by manipulating impurities. Here by using high-resolution…

Spatially-resolved techniques of laser scanning microscopy (LSM) have been used to image simultaneously the spatial variations of (i) rf current flow, J$_RF$(x,y), of (ii) areas of resistive dissipation and (iii) the sources of microwave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-14 Alexander P. Zhuravel , Steven M. Anlage , Stephen Remillard , Alexey V. Ustinov

We use inelastic neutron scattering to study the temperature dependence of the spin excitations of a detwinned superconducting YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.45}$ ($T_c=48$ K). In contrast to earlier work on YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.5}$ ($T_c=58$ K), where…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Shiliang Li , Zahra Yamani , Hye Jung Kang , Kouji Segawa , Yoichi Ando , Xin Yao , H. A. Mook , Pengcheng Dai

We study the problem of two local potential scatterers in a d-wave superconductor, and show how quasiparticle bound state wave functions interfere. Each single-impurity electron and hole resonance energy is in general split in the presence…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Lingyin Zhu , W. A. Atkinson , P. J. Hirschfeld

Topological superconductivity is predicted to emerge in certain magnet-superconductor hybrid systems. Here, we revisit the heterostructure of insulating monolayer CrBr$_3$ and NbSe$_2$, for which different conclusions on the presence of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-30 Jan P. Cuperus , Daniel Vanmaekelbergh , Ingmar Swart

We show that the magnetic ordering of coupled atomic dimers on a superconductor is revealed by their intra-gap spectral features. Chromium atoms on the superconductor $\beta$-Bi$_2$Pd surface display Yu-Shiba-Rusinov bound states, detected…

We investigate the impact of topology on the existence of impurity subgap states in a time-reversal-invariant superconductor with an extended $s$-wave pairing and strong spin-orbit coupling. By simply tuning the chemical potential we access…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-01-15 M. Mashkoori , A. G. Moghaddam , M. H. Hajibabaee , A. M. Black-Schaffer , F. Parhizgar

Cubic Y$_{2}$Ti$_{2}$O$_{7}$ single crystals doped with Er$^{3+}$ and Yb$^{3+}$ ions have been studied by the methods of electron spin resonance (ESR) and selective laser spectroscopy. ESR spectra exhibit signals from rare-earth ions that…

Several decades of debate have centered around the nature of the enigmatic pseudo-gap state in high temperature superconducting copper oxides. Recently, we reported polarized neutron diffraction measurements that suggested the existence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-26 Dalila Bounoua , Yvan Sidis , Martin Boehm , Paul Steffens , Toshinao Loew , Lin Shan Guo , Jun Qian , Xin Yao , Philippe Bourges

Superconductor-Ferromagnet (SF) heterostructures are of interest due to numerous phenomena related to the spin-dependent interaction of Cooper pairs with the magnetization. Here we address the effects of a magnetic insulator on the density…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-18 Wolfgang Belzig , Detlef Beckmann

Motivated by recent experiments, which allow for fine tuning of the effective magnetic interaction between the impurity and the superconductor, we investigate the regime around the quantum phase transition where the system's ground state…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-30 Andreas Theiler , Christian R. Ast , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Symmetry offers a useful approach to unfold the intertwined degrees of freedom. Thus it paves the way to resolve coexisting quantum orders into distinct symmetry sectors. Motivated by the recent observation of superconductivity in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-19 Kunal Dutta , Rajesh O. Sharma , Shreya Das , Indra Dasgupta , Tanmoy Das , Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta

While the possibility of topological superconductivity (TSC) in hybrid heterostructures involving topologically nontrivial band structure and superconductors has been proposed, the realization of TSC in a single stoichiometric material is…

The spectral slope of the magnetic energy in supernova remnants (SNRs) can be obtained by analysis of spatial two-point correlation functions of synchrotron intensities. This method has been originally developed for the analysis of magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 Jiro Shimoda , Takuya Akahori , A. Lazarian , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Yutaka Fujita