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We study theoretically how superlattices based on adatoms on surfaces of unconventional superconductors can be used to engineer novel pairing states that break time-reversal symmetry and exhibit non-trivial magnetic point symmetries. We…

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Altermagnetism, a new phase of collinear spin-order sharing similarities with antiferromagnets and ferromagnets, has introduced a new guiding principle for spintronic/thermoelectric applications due to its direction-dependent magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 Samuele Giuli , Carlos Mejuto-Zaera , Massimo Capone

Scanning tunneling microscopy can provide a probe for the detailed study of quasiparticle states in high-Tc superconductors. We propose that it can also be used to acquire specific information about impurity-induced quasiparticle states and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-28 M. I. Salkola , A. V. Balatsky , D. J. Scalapino

In superconductors spin-split by an exchange field, thermal effects are coupled to spin transport. We show how an oscillating electromagnetic field in such systems creates spin imbalance, that can be detected with a spin-polarized probe.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-25 P. Virtanen , T. T. Heikkilä , F. S. Bergeret

We investigate the interplay between altermagnetic spin-splitting and nonsymmorphic symmetries using the space group no. 62 as a testbed. Studying different magnetic orders by means of first-principles calculations, we find that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-21 Amar Fakhredine , Raghottam M. Sattigeri , Giuseppe Cuono , Carmine Autieri

We study in-gap states of a single magnetic impurity embedded in a honeycomb monolayer which is deposited on superconducting substrate. The intrinsic spin-orbit coupling induces the quantum spin Hall insulating (QSHI) phase gapped around…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-08-12 Szczepan Głodzik , Tadeusz Domański

Anderson's theorem states that non-magnetic impurities do not change the bulk properties of conventional superconductors. However, as the dimensionality is reduced, the effect of impurities becomes more significant. Here we investigate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-25 L. -F. Zhang , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters

We investigate the combined effects of magnetic impurities and applied magnetic field on the interference contribution to the conductance of disordered metals. We show that in a metal with weak spin-orbit interaction, the polarization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. G. Vavilov , L. I. Glazman

We demonstrate how potential impurities are a very powerful tool for determining the pairing symmetry in graphene proximity-coupled to a spin-singlet superconductor. All d-wave states are characterized by subgap resonances, with spatial…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-20 Oladunjoye A. Awoga , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We consider the effects of magnetic impurities on the surface of superconducting Cu doped $Bi_{2}Se_{3}$ in the odd parity pairing phase which support topologically protected Majorana fermions surface states with linear spectrum. We show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-01-11 Ting-Pong Choy , K. T. Law , Tai-Kai Ng

We report exact model calculations of the spin-dependent tunneling in double magnetic tunnel junctions in the presence of impurities in the well. We show that the impurity can tune selectively the spin channels giving rise to a wide variety…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-29 A. Kalitsov , A. Coho , N. Kioussis , A. Vedyayev , M. Chshiev , A. Granovsky

We consider an "impurity" with a spin degree of freedom coupled to a finite reservoir of non-interacting electrons, a system which may be realized by either a true impurity in a metallic nano-particle or a small quantum dot coupled to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-06 R. K. Kaul , D. Ullmo , G. Zarand , S. Chandrasekharan , H. U. Baranger

We propose the second-order response of metals in an electric field induced by magnetic impurities which locally break inversion symmetry. The impurities with toroidal moments scatter conduction electrons in the presence of the spin-orbit…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-10-04 Hiroki Isobe , Naoto Nagaosa

Both impurity- and magnetic-field-induced quasiparticle states in chiral $p$-wave superconductors are investigated theoretically by solving the Bogoliubov--de Gennes equations self-consistently. At the strong scattering limit, we find that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-10 Yao-Wu Guo , Wei Li , Yan Chen

Electronic states and magnetic properties of single $Mn$ impurity and dimer doped in narrow-gap and wide-gap $III$-$V$ semiconductors have been studied systematically. It has been found that in the ground state for single $Mn$ impurity,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 W. H. Wang , Liang-Jian Zou , Y. Q. Wang

We investigate the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interference pattern in the electron transmission through a mesoscopic ring in which two identical non-interacting magnetic impurities are embedded. Adopting a quantum waveguide theory, we derive the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Ciccarello , G. M. Palma , M. Zarcone

The effective interaction between magnetic impurities in metals that can lead to various magnetic ground states often competes with a tendency for electrons near impurities to screen the local moment (Kondo effect). The simplest system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. J. Craig , J. M. Taylor , E. A. Lester , C. M. Marcus , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

Altermagnets are a recently discovered class of magnetic materials that combine a collinear, zero-magnetization spin structure, characteristic of antiferromagnets, with spin-split electronic bands, a hallmark of ferromagnets. This unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Rui Chen , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

Altermagnets recently came into the spotlight as a new class of magnetic materials, arising as a consequence of specific crystal symmetries. They are characterized by a spin-polarized electronic band structure similar to ferromagnets, but…

We investigate the role of the Bloch functions and superconducting gap symmetries on the formation and properties of impurity-induced resonances in a two-dimensional superconductor, and elucidate their manifestation in scanning tunneling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-12 P. O. Sukhachov , Felix von Oppen , L. I. Glazman