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We have studied the tunneling conductance in two dimensional electron gas / insulator / superconductor junctions in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC). It is found that for low insulating barrier the tunneling conductance is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Yokoyama , Y. Tanaka , J. Inoue

Rashba spin-orbit coupling is a quintessential spin interaction appearing in virtually any electronic heterostructure. Its paradigmatic spin texture in the momentum space forms a tangential vector field. Using first-principles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Tobias Frank , Paulo E. Faria Junior , Klaus Zollner , Jaroslav Fabian

Recent experiments show strong evidences of nematic triplet superconductivity in doped Bi$_2$Se$_3$ and in Bi$_2$Te$_3$ thin film on a superconducting substrate, but with varying identifications of the direction of the $d$-vector of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-15 Wei-Cheng Bao , Qing-Kun Tang , Da-Chuan Lu , Qiang-Hua Wang

We propose a theoretical framework in which a one-dimensional (1D) tight-binding model incorporating unconventional magnetic order together with Rashba and Ising spin-orbit couplings are considered to realize two key phenomena in condensed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Amartya Pal , Debashish Mondal , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha

We propose the lead sulphide (PbS) monolayer as a 2D semiconductor with a large Rashba-like spin-orbit effect controlled by the out-of-plane buckling. The buckled PbS conduction band is found to possess Rashba-like dispersion and spin…

We show that the surface of an $s$-wave superconductor decorated with a two-dimensional lattice of magnetic impurities can exhibit chiral topological superconductivity. If impurities order ferromagnetically and the superconducting surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-29 Jian Li , Titus Neupert , Zhi Jun Wang , A. H. MacDonald , A. Yazdani , B. Andrei Bernevig

We investigate the two-dimensional (2D) highly spin-polarized electron accumulation layers commonly appearing near the surface of n-type polar semiconductors BiTeX (X = I, Br, and Cl) by angular-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Due to…

We study the anomalous proximity effect in diffusive normal metal (DN)/unconventional superconductor junctions, where the local density of states (LDOS) in the DN has a zero-energy peak due to the penetration of the odd-frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-27 Shun Tamura , Yukio Tanaka

Influence of a spiral spin structure on the superconducting (SC) pairing in the most probable active $\gamma$ band of $Sr_2RuO_4$ is studied in the mean field approximation. Such structure with "incommensurate" vector $Q=2\pi(1/3,1/3)$ has…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Ovchinnikov , M. Ya. Ovchinnikova

The Rashba spin-orbit coupling effect, primarily arising from structural-inversion asymmetry in periodic crystals, has garnered considerable attention due to its tunability and potential applications in spintronics. Its capability to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-24 Arjyama Bordoloi , A. C. Garcia-Castro , Zachary Romestan , Aldo H. Romero , Sobhit Singh

We have studied a general property of unconventional superconductors with spin-orbit coupling by solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation and found that the two of four eigenfunctions for triplet pairing coincide with those for s-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Yokoyama , Y. Tanaka , J. Inoue

The NbSe$_2$ monolayer with Rashba spin-orbit coupling represents a paradigmatic example of an Ising superconductor on a substrate. Using a single-band model and symmetry analysis, we present general superconducting pairing functions beyond…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-16 Jozef Haniš , Marko Milivojević , Martin Gmitra

The combination of spin-orbit coupling with interactions results in many exotic phases of matter. In this Letter, we investigate the superconducting pairing instability of the two-dimensional extended Hubbard model with both Rashba and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-08 Majid Kheirkhah , Zhongbo Yan , Yuki Nagai , Frank Marsiglio

Using an asymptotically exact weak coupling analysis of a multi-orbital Hubbard model of the electronic structure of \SRO, we show that the interplay between spin and charge fluctuations leads unequivocally to triplet pairing which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-10-19 S. Raghu , A. Kapitulnik , S. A. Kivelson

We investigate the properties of the two-dimensional model with Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling cubic in electron momentum. In the normal phase, edge states emerge on open boundaries. In the superconducting phase, edge states could evolve…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-06 Haijiao Ji , Ning Zhang , Noah F. Q. Yuan

Experimental evidence suggests that superconductivity in SrTiO$_3$ is mediated by a soft transverse ferroelectric mode which, according to conventional theories, has negligible coupling with electrons. A phenomenological Rashba type…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-07 Maria N. Gastiasoro , Maria Eleonora Temperini , Paolo Barone , Jose Lorenzana

Superconductivity, a state in which electrical currents can flow without resistance, occurs because of pairing of electrons into quasiparticles with integer spin $S$. In practically all known superconducting materials, these pairs form a…

Two dimensional electron systems at oxide interfaces are often influenced by a Rashba type spin- orbit coupling (SOC), which is tunable by a transverse electric field. Ferromagnetism at the interface can simultaneously induce strong local…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-23 Florian Loder , Arno P. Kampf , Thilo Kopp

We discuss possible pairing symmetries in the hexagonal pnictide superconductor SrPtAs. The local lack of inversion symmetry of the two distinct conducting layers in the unit cell results in a special spin-orbit coupling with a staggered…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-09-26 Jun Goryo , Mark H. Fischer , Manfred Sigrist

The leading superconducting instabilities of the two-dimensional extended repulsive one-band Hubbard model within spin-fluctuation pairing theory depend sensitively on electron density, band and interaction parameters. We map out the phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-02 Mercè Roig , Astrid T. Rømer , P. J. Hirschfeld , Brian M. Andersen