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We study the interband transport in a superconducting device composed of graphene with EuO-induced exchange interaction. We show that pure crossed Andreev reflection can be generated exclusively without the parasitic local Andreev…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Yee Sin Ang , L. K. Ang , C. Zhang , Zhongshui Ma

Inducing superconducting correlations in chiral edge states is predicted to generate topologically protected zero energy modes with exotic quantum statistics. Experimental efforts to date have focused on engineering interfaces between…

Topological superconductors, such as noncentrosymmetric superconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling, exhibit protected zero-energy surface states, which possess an intricate helical spin structure. We show that this nontrival spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-10 Johannes S. Hofmann , Raquel Queiroz , Andreas P. Schnyder

We consider theoretically the electronic structure of quasi-two and quasi-one-dimensional heterostructures comprised of III-V and II-VI semiconductors such as InAs/GaInSb and HgCdTe. We show that not only a Dirac-like dispersion exists in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jacob B. Khurgin , Igor Vurgaftman

The existence of edge states and zero energy modes in vortex cores is a hallmark of topologically nontrivial phases realized in various condensed matter systems such as the fractional quantum Hall states, p+ip superconductors, and Z_2…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-04-03 Masatoshi Sato , Satoshi Fujimoto

We examine the effects of a phenomenological pseudogap on the T=0 K phase diagram of a high temperature superconductor within a self-consistent model which exhibits a d-wave pairing symmetry. At the mean-field level the presence of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 A. A. Schmidt , J. J. Rodriguez-Nunez , I. Tifrea

We study non oscillating bifurcations of non homogeneous steady states of the Vlasov equation, a situation occurring in galactic models, or for Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal modes in plasma physics. We show that resonances are strongly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-20 J. Barré , D. Métivier , Y. Y. Yamaguchi

Topological phases in quantum and classical systems have been of significant recent interest due to their fascinating physical properties. While a range of different mechanisms to induce topological order have been introduced, a quest for…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-07 Mengyao Li , Xiang Ni , Matthew Weiner , Andrea Alù , Alexander B. Khanikaev

A normal conductor placed in good contact with a superconductor can inherit its remarkable electronic properties. This proximity effect microscopically originates from the formation in the conductor of entangled electron-hole states, called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Landry Bretheau , Joel I-Jan Wang , Riccardo Pisoni , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Periodically driven quantum systems can exhibit subharmonic response, usually characterized through physical observables and often discussed in interacting settings. Here we show that a sharp subharmonic signature already appears in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Rishabh Jha

When magnetic atoms are inserted inside a superconductor, the superconducting order is locally depleted as a result of the antagonistic nature of magnetism and superconductivity1. Thereby, distinctive spectral features, known as…

The geometric phase and topological property for one-dimensional hybrid plasmonic-photonic crystals consisting of a simple lattice of graphene sheets are investigated systematically. For transverse magnetic waves, both plasmonic and…

Optics · Physics 2017-06-02 Lixin Ge , Liang Liu , Meng Xiao , Guiqiang Du , Lei Shi , Dezhuan Han , C. T. Chan , Jian Zi

A generic semiclassical superconducting nanostructure connected to multiple superconducting terminals hosts a quasi-continuous spectrum of Andreev states. The spectrum is sensitive to the superconducting phases of the terminals. It can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Janis Erdmanis , Arpad Lukacs , Yuli Nazarov

We find stationary thin-brane geometries that are dual to far-from-equilibrium steady states of two-dimensional holographic interfaces. The flow of heat at the boundary agrees with the result of CFT and the known energy-transport…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-01 Constantin Bachas , Zhongwu Chen , Vassilis Papadopoulos

We study transport through a single-level system placed between two reservoirs with band-structure, taking strong level-reservoir coupling of the order of the energy-scales of these band-structures. An exact solution in the absence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-19 Étienne Jussiau , Robert S. Whitney

Quasi-two dimensional superconductors with sufficiently weak interlayer coupling allow magnetic flux to penetrate in the form of Josephson vortices for in-plane applied magnetic fields. A consequence is the dominance of the Zeeman…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-17 G. Koutroulakis , H. Kühne , J. A. Schlueter , J. Wosnitza , S. E. Brown

We study a composite model of two $1D$ $PXP$ chains with dual constraints, forming a junction that acts as an infinite kinematic barrier to quantum information exchange. Moreover, the hard wall at the junction which acts as a perfect…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-10 Akshay Panda , Anwesha Chattopadhyay

We derive a low-energy theory for edge states in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers for a two-band $\bm{kp}$-Hamiltonian in case of uncoupled valleys. In the absence of spin-orbit interaction at the edge, these states possess a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-29 V. V. Enaldiev

Quantum state manipulation with gates based on geometric phases acquired during cyclic operations promises inherent fault-tolerance and resilience to local fluctuations in the control parameters. Here we create a general non-Abelian and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 S. Danilin , A. Vepsäläinen , G. S. Paraoanu

We propose that a half semiconducting state can exist in trigonal-prismatic transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers of d$^{1}$ configuration. In that state both electrons and holes are spin polarized and share the same spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-06 Peng-Ru Huang , Yao He , Hridis K. Pal , Markus Kindermann