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The compensated magnetic order and characteristic, terahertz frequencies of antiferromagnetic materials makes them promising candidates to develop a new class of robust, ultra-fast spintronic devices. The manipulation of antiferromagnetic…

Recent experimental breakthrough in magnetic Weyl semimetals have inspired exploration on the novel effects of various magnetic structures in these materials. Here we focus on a domain wall structure which connects two uniform domains with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-07 Zhao Huang , Christopher Lane , Dmitry Yarotski , A. J. Taylor , Jian-Xin Zhu

An increase of the magnetic moment in superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F) bilayers V(40nm)/F [F$=$Fe(1,3nm), Co(3nm), Ni(3nm)] was observed using SQUID magnetometry upon cooling below the superconducting transition temperature Tc in magnetic…

We study a magnetic proximity effect at superconductor (S) - ferromagnet (F) interface. It is shown that due to an exchange of electrons between the F and S metals ferromagnetic correlations extend into the superconductor, being dependent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 V. N. Krivoruchko , E. A. Koshina

Higher-order topological superconductors host Majorana zero modes localized at corners or hinges, providing a promising route toward scalable and controllable Majorana networks without vortices or magnetic flux. Here we propose a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-06 Yongting Shi , Qing Wang , Zhen-Guo Fu , Ping Zhang , Ning Hao

It is generally believed that superconductivity and magnetism are two antagonistic long-range phenomena. However, as it was preliminarily highlighted in D. Stamopoulos et al. [Phys. Rev. B 75, 014501 (2007)] and extensively studied in this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Stamopoulos , E. Manios , M. Pissas

Structural, magnetic, and superconducting properties of S/F bilayers Nb/Cu40Ni60 deposited on silicon substrate have been characterized using Polarized Neutron Reflectometry and complementary techniques. The study allowed to determine real…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-13 Yu. Khaydukov , R. Morari , L. Mustafa , J. -H. Kim , T. Keller , S. Belevski , A. Csik , L. Tagirov , G. Logvenov , A. Sidorenko , B. Keimer

Superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F) proximity effect theory predicts that the superconducting critical temperature of the F1/F2/S or F1/S/F2 trilayers for the parallel orientation of the F1 and F2 magnetizations is smaller than for the…

We use local and global magnetometry measurements to study the influence of magnetic domain width w on the domain-induced vortex pinning in superconducting/ferromagnetic bilayers, built of a Nb film and a ferromagnetic Co/Pt multilayer with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 Marta Z. Cieplak , L. Y. Zhu , Z. Adamus , M. Konczykowski , C. L. Chien

We consider a superconductor-ferromagnet (S/F) structure and assume that above the superconducting transition temperature $T_{c}$ the magnetic moment exists only in F. {In a simple model of the ferromagnet (the exchange field is of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 F. S. Bergeret , A. F. Volkov , K. B. Efetov

Ferromagnetic substrate influences the electromagnetic response of a type-II superconducting film to the applied magnetic field. We present a two-dimensional integrodifferential model for the magnetization of a flat…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-12 Leonid Prigozhin , Vladimir Sokolovsky

A ferromagnetic insulator (FI) attached to a conventional superconductor (S) changes drastically the properties of the latter. Specifically, the exchange field at the FI/S interface leads to a splitting of the superconducting density of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-21 Tero T Heikkilä , Mikhail Silaev , Pauli Virtanen , F. Sebastian Bergeret

Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor heterostructures are promising platforms for realizing topological superconductors and exploring Majorana bound states physics. Motivated by recent experimental progress, we theoretically study how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-15 A. Maiani , R. Seoane Souto , M. Leijnse , K. Flensberg

We have optimized the growth of superconducting TaN thin films on \ch{SiO2} substrates via dc magnetron sputtering and extract a maximum superconducting transition temperature of $T_{\mathrm{c}}=5$ K as well as a maximum critical field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-01 Manuel Müller , Raphael Hoepfl , Lukas Liensberger , Stephan Geprägs , Hans Huebl , Mathias Weiler , Rudolf Gross , Matthias Althammer

When a topological insulator is made into a nanowire, the interplay between topology and size quantization gives rise to peculiar one-dimensional states whose energy dispersion can be manipulated by external fields. In the presence of…

We present the results of experimental investigations of magnetic switching and magnetotransport in a new generation of magnetic devices containing artificially patterned domains. Our devices are realised by locally reducing the coercive…

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This study delves into the magneto-electronic and magneto-optical properties of stacking-modulated bilayer graphene. By manipulating domain walls (DWs) across AB-BA domains periodically, we unveil oscillatory Landau subbands and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Chiun-Yan Lin , Da-We Weng , Chih-Wei Chiu , Godfrey Gumbs

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) realizes a highly tunable, strongly interacting system featuring superconductivity and various correlated insulating states. We establish gate-defined wires in TBG with proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-23 Alex Thomson , Ina Sorensen , Stevan Nadj-Perge , Jason Alicea

We present a microscopic theory of proximity effect in the ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet (F/S/F) nanostructures where S is s-wave low-T_c superconductor and F's are layers of 3d transition ferromagnetic metal. Our approach is based…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 A. Bagrets , C. Lacroix , A. Vedyayev

We study multiband semiconducting nanowires proximity-coupled with an s-wave superconductor and calculate the topological phase diagram as a function of the chemical potential and magnetic field. The non-trivial topological state…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-19 Tudor Stanescu , Roman M. Lutchyn , S. Das Sarma