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We study the electromagnetic properties of dense QCD in the so-called Magnetic Dual Chiral Density Wave phase. This inhomogeneous phase exhibits a nontrivial topology that comes from the fermion sector due to the asymmetry of the lowest…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-24 E. J. Ferrer , V. de la Incera

In a thin strip of a two-dimensional semiconductor electronic system, spin-orbit coupling may be induced near both edges of the strip due to the substantial spatial variation of the confining potential in the boundary regions. In this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yongjin Jiang , Liangbin Hu

We consider a problem of superconductivity coexistence with the spin-density-wave order in disordered multiband metals. It is assumed that random variations of the disorder potential on short length scales render the interactions between…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-28 Maxim Dzero , Alex Levchenko

A two-dimensional (2D) topological insulator (TI) exhibits the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, in which topologically protected spin-polarized conducting channels exist at the sample edges. Experimental signatures of the QSH effect have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Yanmeng Shi , Joshua Kahn , Ben Niu , Zaiyao Fei , Bosong Sun , Xinghan Cai , Brian A. Francisco , Di Wu , Zhi-Xun Shen , Xiaodong Xu , David H. Cobden , Yong-Tao Cui

Topological protection in photonics offers new prospects for guiding and manipulating classical and quantum information. The mechanism of spin-orbit coupling promises the emergence of edge states that are helical; exhibiting unidirectional…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-28 Nikhil Parappurath , Filippo Alpeggiani , L. Kuipers , Ewold Verhagen

We investigate the emergence and consequences of odd-frequency spin-triplet s-wave pairing in superconducting hybrid junctions at the edge of a two-dimensional topological insulator without any magnetism. More specifically, we consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Chiral superconductors, a unique class of unconventional superconductors in which the complex superconducting order parameter winds clockwise or counter-clockwise in the momentum space, represent a topologically non-trivial system with…

Domains in non-centrosymmetric materials represent regions of different crystal structure and spin-orbit coupling. Twin boundaries separating such domains display unusual properties in non-centrosymmetric superconductors (NCS), where…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 Kazushi Aoyama , Lucile Savary , Manfred Sigrist

We study spin-polarized quasiparticle transport in a mesoscopic superconductor with a spin- splitting field in the presence of co-flowing supercurrent. In such a system, the nonequilibrium state is characterized by charge, spin, energy and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-01 Faluke Aikebaier , Mihail A. Silaev , T. T. Heikkilä

We theoretically demonstrate hybrid-order topology in a two-dimensional nonsymmorphic antiferromagnet. Utilizing a generic antiferromagnetic Dirac model with a symmetry-allowed, momentum-dependent spin-density-wave (SDW) mass, we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Wei Xiong , Zi-Ming Wang , Xin-Mei Wei , Rui Wang , Dong-Hui Xu

Reflecting the fundamental interactions of polarized light with magnetic matter, magneto-optical effects are well known since more than a century. The emergence of these phenomena is commonly attributed to the interplay between exchange…

Spin-triplet chiral p-wave superconductivity is typically described by a two-component order parameter, and as such is prone to unique emergent effects when compared to the standard single-component superconductors. Here we present the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-03 L. -F. Zhang , L. Covaci , M. V. Milošević

Quantum spin Hall-superconductor hybrids are promising sources of topological superconductivity and Majorana modes, particularly given recent progress on HgTe and InAs/GaSb. We propose a new method of revealing topological superconductivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-11-11 Shu-Ping Lee , Karen Michaeli , Jason Alicea , Amir Yacoby

There is an increasing theoretical and observational evidence that the external magnetic field of magnetars may contain a toroidal component, likely of the same order of the poloidal one. Such "twisted magnetospheres" are threaded by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Pavan , R. Turolla , S. Zane , L. Nobili

We present an experimental and theoretical study of the magnetic field dependence of the mode frequency of thermally excited spin waves in rectangular shaped nanopillars of lateral sizes 60x100, 75x150, and 105x190 nm2, patterned from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Helmer , S. Cornelissen , T. Devolder , J. -V. Kim , W. van Roy , L. Lagae , C. Chappert

Recently it was discovered that superconductivity in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is strongly affected by an out-of-plane spin-orbit coupling (SOC). In addition, new techniques of fabricating 2d ferromagnets on van der Waals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Szczepan Głodzik , Teemu Ojanen

This paper explores the potential for spin-triplet superconductivity in molecular beam epitaxy grown PbTe/SnTe semiconductor heterostructures. We present convincing evidence for spin-triplet pairing by soft point-contact spectroscopy…

We study the interaction between a ferromagnetically ordered medium and the surface states of a topological insulator with a general surface termination. This interaction is strongly crystal face dependent and can generate chiral states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-19 Fan Zhang , C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele

The study of multi-band superconductivity is relevant for a variety of systems, from ultra cold atoms with population imbalance to particle physics, and condensed matter. As a consequence, this problem has been widely investigated bringing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-17 Mucio A. Continentino , Igor T. Padilha , Heron Caldas

In this work we investigate the spin-dependent transport through a double quantum dot embedded in a ferromagnetic tunnel junction and side attached to a topological superconducting nanowire hosting Majorana zero-energy modes. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Piotr Majek , Ireneusz Weymann