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Atomic manipulation and interface engineering techniques have provided a novel approach to custom-designing topological superconductors and the ensuing Majorana zero modes, representing a new paradigm for the realization of topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-18 Eric Mascot , Jasmin Bedow , Martin Graham , Stephan Rachel , Dirk K. Morr

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

We show that spin-polarized local density of states (LDOS) measurements can uniquely determine the chiral nature of topologically protected edge states surrounding a ferromagnetic island embedded in a conventional superconductor with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-04-18 Kristofer Björnson , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

A microscopic mechanism for chiral superconductivity from Coulomb repulsion is proposed for spin- and valley-polarized state of rhombohedral multilayer graphene. The superconducting state occurs at low density, has chiral $p$-wave pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-24 Max Geier , Margarita Davydova , Liang Fu

Approaching a two-component tip made of a superconductor (S) and a ferromagnet (F) from a magnetic sample allows for two distinct tunneling processes between the ferromagnets, through S: i) Charge and spin are conserved; ii) Charge and spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Feinberg , G. Deutscher

We study the spin transport properties of the non-centrosymmetric superconductor with time-reversal-symmetry where spin-triplet $(p_{x} \pm i p_{y})$-wave and spin-singlet s-wave pair potential can mix each other. We show that when the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Yukio Tanaka , Takehito Yokoyama , Alexander V. Balatsky , Naoto Nagaosa

We consider a heterostructure of semiconductor layers sandwiched between two superconductors, forming a two-dimensional Josephson junction. Applying a Zeeman field perpendicular to the junction can render a topological superconducting phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-27 Shao-Kai Jian , Shuai Yin

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

A new class of phenomena discussed in this review is based on interaction between spatially separated, but closely located ferromagnets and superconductors. They are called Ferromagnet-Superconductor Hybrids (FSH). These systems include…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 I. F. Lyuksyutov , V. L. Pokrovsky

The interplay between magnetism and superconductivity provides a fertile ground for engineering exotic topological phases, while dynamical control via periodic driving offers a unique avenue to access quantum states that are inaccessible in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-03 Xiaolin Wan , Zheng Qin , Fangyang Zhan , Junjie Zeng , Dong-Hui Xu , Rui Wang

An SNN-junction in which the superconducting potential is a mixture between s-wave and p-wave potentials is investigated using the Usadel equation equipped with Tanaka-Nazarov boundary conditions. The article provides several ways to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-08 Tim Kokkeler , Yukio Tanaka , Alexander A. Golubov

We investigate the persistent currents, spin-polarized local density of states, and spectral functions of topological superconductors constructed by placing ferromagnetic impurities on top of an s-wave superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit…

We study a simple microscopic model for thin, ferromagnetic, metallic layers on semi-infinite bulk superconductor. We find that for certain values of the exchange spliting, on the ferromagnetic side, the ground states of such structures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Krawiec , B. L. Gyorffy , J. F. Annett

Surface properties are examined in a chiral d-wave superconductor with hexagonal symmetry, whose one-body Hamiltonian possesses the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling identical to the one characterizing the topological nature of the Kane-Mele…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-11 Jun Goryo , Yoshiki Imai , W. B. Rui , Manfred Sigrist , Andreas P. Schnyder

We analyze the broad range of spin-dependent nonequilibrium transport properties of hybrid systems composed of a normal region tunnel coupled to two superconductors with exchange fields induced by the proximity to thin ferromagnetic layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-21 F. Giazotto , F. Taddei , P. D'Amico , Rosario Fazio , F. Beltram

Topological aspects of superconductivity in quantum spin-Hall systems (QSHSs) such as thin layers of three-dimensional topological insulators (3D Tis) or two-dimensional Tis are in the focus of current research. We examine hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 R. W. Reinthaler , G. Tkachov , E. M. Hankiewicz

The topological state of a two-dimensional triplet superconductor may be changed by an appropriate addition of magnetic impurities. A ferromagnetic magnetic chain at the surface of a superconductor with spin-orbit coupling may eliminate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-13 P. D. Sacramento

High-order topological phases host robust boundary states at the boundary of the boundary, which can be interpreted from their boundary topology. In this work, considering the interplay between superconductors and magnetic fields to gap the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-29 Xun-Jiang Luo , Xiao-Hong Pan , Xin Liu

The interplay between magnetism and superconductivity is one of the central topics of condensed matter physics, which has recently been put into new light by the discovery of altermagnets. Here, we study this interplay from a fundamental…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-16 Kirill Parshukov , Andreas P. Schnyder

We study the superconducting state of multi-orbital spin-orbit coupled systems in the presence of an orbitally driven inversion asymmetry assuming that the inter-orbital attraction is the dominant pairing channel. Although the inversion…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-06 Yuri Fukaya , Shun Tamura , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco