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We investigate chiral superconductivity which occurs in the electronic nematic state. A vortex state in a $c$-axis magnetic field is studied on the basis of the two-component Ginzburg-Landau model for nematic-chiral superconductors. It is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-09 Shuhei Takamatsu , Youichi Yanase

We theoretically study Josephson junctions with a transition metal dichalcogenide zigzag ribbon as a weak link. We demonstrate that the spatial profile of the supercurrent carried by the edge modes determines the critical current dependence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 D. Sticlet , P. Wójcik , M. P. Nowak

A magnetic domain boundary on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator is predicted to host a chiral edge state, but direct demonstration is challenging. Here, we used a scanning superconducting quantum interference device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-18 Y. H. Wang , J. R. Kirtley , F. Katmis , P. Jarillo-Herrero , J. S. Moodera , K. A. Moler

As the three-dimensional analogs of graphene, Weyl semimetals display signatures of chiral anomaly which arises from charge pumping between the lowest chiral Landau levels of the Weyl nodes in the presence of parallel electric and magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Chang-An Li

We study Josephson junctions (JJs) in which the region between the two superconductors is a multichannel system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) where a barrier or a quantum point contact (QPC) is present. These systems might present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-01 Andres A. Reynoso , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro , D. Feinberg , M. Avignon

At the domain wall between two regions with the opposite Chern number, there should be the one-dimensional chiral states, which are called as the kink states. The kink states are robust for the lattice deformations. We design a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 Lin Zhang , Chao Wang , Peipei Zhang , Yu-Xian Li

Spin current, i.e. the flow of spin angular momentum or magnetic moment, has recently attracted much attention as the promising alternative for charge current with better energy efficiency. Genuine spin current is generally carried by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-29 S. Seki , Y. Okamura , K. Kondou , K. Shibata , M. Kubota , R. Takagi , F. Kagawa , M. Kawasaki , G. Tatara , Y. Otani , Y. Tokura

The pyrochlore iridates have become ideal platforms to unravel fascinating correlated and topolog?ical phenomena that stem from the intricate interplay among strong spin-orbit coupling, electronic correlations, lattice with geometric…

Magneto conductivities in Weyl semimetals (WSM) in presence of small fields are studied using quasi-classical Boltzmann transport equations (BTE). Following such formalism here we consider irradiation via circularly polarized light on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-11 Rounak Sen , Satyaki Kar

An out-of-plane magnetic field can always suppress superconductivity. In Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BBG), recently observed activation of superconductivity (SC) through either in-plane magnetic fields or proximate spin-orbit coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-10 Jun Ho Son , Yi-Ting Hsu , Eun-Ah Kim

We propose a concept of non-collinear spin current, whose spin polarization varies in space even in non-magnetic crystals. While it is commonly assumed that the spin polarization of the spin Hall current is uniform, asymmetric local crystal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Dongwook Go , Moritz Sallermann , Fabian R. Lux , Stefan Blügel , Olena Gomonay , Yuriy Mokrousov

We argue that spin and valley-polarized metallic phases recently observed in graphene bilayers and trilayers support chiral edge modes that allow spin waves to propagate ballistically along system boundaries without backscattering. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Zhiyu Dong , Olumakinde Ogunnaike , Leonid Levitov

We study the current-phase relation (CPR) of an InSb-Al nanowire Josephson junction in parallel magnetic fields up to $700$\,mT. At high magnetic fields and in narrow voltage intervals of a gate under the junction, the CPR exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Vukan Levajac , Hristo Barakov , Grzegorz P. Mazur , Nick van Loo , Leo P. Kouwenhoven , Yuli V. Nazarov , Ji-Yin Wang

Weyl semimetals are three-dimensional crystalline systems where pairs of bands touch at points in momentum space, termed Weyl nodes, that are characterized by a definite topological charge: the chirality. Consequently, they exhibit the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-05 S. A. Parameswaran , T. Grover , D. A. Abanin , D. A. Pesin , A. Vishwanath

Considering the density wave of scalar and pseudoscalar condensates, we study the response of quark matter to a weak external magnetic field. In an external magnetic field, the energy spectrum of the lowest Landau level becomes asymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-21 Ryo Yoshiike , Kazuya Nishiyama , Tositaka Tatsumi

We study the surface Andreev bound state (ABS) of superconducting Sr$_2$RuO$_4$, which is a candidate material for the realization of the chiral $p$-wave superconducting state. In order to clarify the role of chiral edge modes as ABSs, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-17 Keiji Yada , Alexander A. Golubov , Yukio Tanaka , Satoshi Kashiwaya

Chiral active liquids exhibit unidirectional edge currents when confined to simple geometries, but the origin of this phenomenon has defied explanation. Starting from the microscopic equations of motion of a simple two-dimensional model, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-20 Faisal Alsallom , David T. Limmer

We study the Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states in materials with bulk band inversion such as iron-based topological superconductors or doped topological insulators. We show that the structure of the YSR state spectrum depends on the doping level…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-19 Didier Ndengeyintwali , Shiva Heidari , Cody Youmans , Pavan Hosur , Pouyan Ghaemi

Electrons in moir\'e flat band systems can spontaneously break time reversal symmetry, giving rise to a quantized anomalous Hall effect. Here we use a superconducting quantum interference device to image stray magnetic fields in one such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 C. L. Tschirhart , M. Serlin , H. Polshyn , A. Shragai , Z. Xia , J. Zhu , Y. Zhang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. E. Huber , A. F. Young

Surface superconductivity has recently been observed on the (001) surface of the topological crystalline insulator Pb$_{1-x}$Sn$_{x}$Te using point-contact spectroscopy, and theoretically proposed to be of the chiral $p-$wave type. In this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-24 S. Kundu , V. Tripathi