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We explore superconductivity in strongly interacting electrons on a decorated honeycomb lattice (DHL). An easy-plane ferromagnetic interaction arises from spin-orbit coupling in the Mott insulating phase, which favors a triplet resonance…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-22 Manuel Fernández López , Ben J. Powell , Jaime Merino

We investigate proximity-induced superconductivity in monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) in the presence of an externally generated exchange field. A variety of superconducting order parameters is found to emerge from the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-04-11 M. A. Rahimi , A. G. Moghaddam , C. Dykstra , M. Governale , U. Zülicke

We present a study of the transmission of electrons through a semiconductor quantum wire with strong spin-orbit coupling in proximity to an s-wave superconductor, which is Coulomb-blockaded. Such a system supports Majorana zero modes in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Casper Drukier , Heinrich-Gregor Zirnstein , Bernd Rosenow , Ady Stern , Yuval Oreg

Electron-magnon coupling at the interface between a normal metal and a magnetically ordered insulator modifies the electrical conductivity of the normal metal, an effect known as spin-Hall magnetoresistance. It can also facilitate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Oliver Franke , Duje Akrap , Piet W. Brouwer

In three dimensions, gapped phases can support "fractonic" quasiparticle excitations, which are either completely immobile or can only move within a low-dimensional submanifold, a peculiar topological phenomenon going beyond the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-26 Joseph Sullivan , Arpit Dua , Meng Cheng

There should be no question that magnetism and superconductivity appear in close proximity in many if not most of the unconventional superconductors. These two phases are importantly correlated: the strongest manifestations of this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-25 Zhiqiang Wang , Ke Wang , K. Levin

Topological magnons emerge as topologically protected spin wave states at the edges of magnets. Here, we theoretically explore how these surface states can be harnessed to amplify the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in antiferromagnets (AFMs)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-16 Feodor Svetlanov Konomaev , Kjetil M. D. Hals

The experimental realization of Majorana fermions presents an important problem due to their non-Abelian nature and potential exploitation for topological quantum computation. Very recently Sau et al. [arXiv:0907.2239] demonstrated that a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Jason Alicea

The possibility of inducing topological superconductivity with cuprate high-temperature superconductors (HTSC) is studied for various heterostructures. We first consider a ballistic planar junction between a HTSC and a metallic ferromagnet.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-05 So Takei , Benjamin M. Fregoso , Victor Galitski , S. Das Sarma

The recent experimental demonstration of spin-polarized supercurrents offer a venue for establishment of a superconducting analogue to conventional spintronics. Whereas domain wall motion in purely magnetic structures is a well-studied…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 Jacob Linder , Klaus Halterman

Unconventional superconductivity with spin-triplet Cooper pairing is reviewed on the basis of the quasi-phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau theory. The superconductivity, in particular, the mixed phase of coexistence of ferromagnetism and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Diana V. Shopova , Tsvetomir E. Tsvetkov , Dimo I. Uzunov

Spin inertia has been demonstrated to give rise to high-frequency nutational excitations beyond the conventional low-frequency precessional modes. Here, we demonstrate that the hybridization between precessional and nutational magnons may…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-01 Subhadip Ghosh , Mikhail Cherkasskii , Ritwik Mondal , Alexander Mook , Levente Rózsa

Topological phases in magnetic materials offer novel tunability of topological properties via varying the underlying magnetism. We show that three dimensional Kitaev materials can provide a great opportunity for controlling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-11 Wonjune Choi , Tomonari Mizoguchi , Yong Baek Kim

We uncover a new superconducting state with partial spin polarization induced by a magnetic field. This state, which we call "magnonic superconductor", lacks a conventional pairing order parameter, but is characterized instead by a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-07 Khachatur G. Nazaryan , Liang Fu

Magnon confinement and trapping refer to the localization of magnons-quasiparticles that represent collective spin-wave excitations in magnetic materials-within specific regions or structures. This concept is essential in magnonics, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 J. Chen , H. Yu , R. Gallardo , P. Landeros , G. Gubbiotti

We theoretically propose a new route to control magnetic and topological orders in a broad class of insulating magnets with a DC electric field. We show from the strong-coupling expansion that magnetic exchange interactions along the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-28 Kazuaki Takasan , Masahiro Sato

Magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG) recently emerged as a highly tunable platform for studying correlated phases of matter, such as correlated insulators and superconductivity. Superconductivity occurs in a range of doping levels…

We describe a scheme that enables a strong coherent coupling between a topological qubit and the quantized motion of a magnetized nanomechanical resonator. This coupling is achieved by attaching an array of magnetic tips to a namomechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Fang-Yu Hong , Huiqin Qian , Jing-Li Fu , Zhi-Yan Zhu , Li-zhen Jiang

Noncollinear magnetism opens exciting possibilities to generate topological superconductivity. Here, we focus on helical and cycloidal magnetic textures in magnet-superconductor hybrid structures in a background magnetic field. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-12-21 Stefan Rex , Igor V. Gornyi , Alexander D. Mirlin

Artificially engineered topological superconductivity has emerged as a viable route to create Majorana modes, exotic quasiparticles which have raised great expectations for storing and manipulating information in topological quantum…