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Strong spin-orbit coupling can have a profound effect on the electronic structure in a metal or semiconductor, particularly for low electron concentrations. We show how, for small values of the Fermi energy compared to the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Cappelluti , C. Grimaldi , F. Marsiglio

We consider the semiclassical theory in a joint phase space of spin and orbital degrees of freedom. The method is developed from the path integrals using the spin-coherent-state representation, and yields the trace formula for the density…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mikhail Pletyukhov , Oleg Zaitsev

Account of an intrinsic spin-orbit coupling in the valence bands of common semiconductors yields the scalar spin-orbit-rotation term in the effective-mass Hamiltonian of the conduction-band electron. This result is obtained within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yuri A. Serebrennikov

We consider a general problem of a Josephson contact between two multiband superconductors with coexisting superconducting and magnetic phases. As a particular example, we use the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity to study the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-01 Ammar A. Kirmani , Maxim Dzero , Alex Levchenko

Recent theoretical work highlighted unique properties of superconducting altermagnets, including the wealth of topologically non-trivial phases as well as their potential uses in spintronic applications. Given that no intrinsically…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-05 Niclas Heinsdorf , Marcel Franz

It is often assumed that in a superconductor without spin-triplet pairing, the formation of unconventional spin-triplet densities requires the spin-orbit interaction in combination with either broken inversion symmetry or broken…

We study impacts of spin-orbit interactions on the spin susceptibility in quasicrystal superconductors, motivated by the anomolous superconducting properties in the van der Waals quasicrystal Ta$_{1.6}$Te under magnetic fields. We consider…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-18 Yasuhiro Tada

It is argued that the BCS many-body theory, which is outstandingly successful for conventional superconductors, does not apply to the high temperature superconductors and that a realistic theory must take account of the local electronic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. J. Emery , S. A. Kivelson

We provide a unified semiclassical theory for the conserved current of nonconserved quantities, and manifest it in two physical contexts: the spin current of Bloch electrons and the charge current of mean-field Bogoliubov quasiparticles.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Cong Xiao , Qian Niu

Proximity phenomena and induced superconducting correlations in heterostructures are shown to be strongly affected by the nonlocal nature of the electronic attraction. The latter can trigger the formation of Cooper pairs consisting of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-28 A. A. Kopasov , A. S. Mel'nikov

We calculate the thermoelectric transport of spin-orbit coupled conduction electrons in the presence of topological spin textures. We show, within a controlled, semiclassical approach that includes all phase space Berry curvatures, that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Zachariah Addison , Lauren Keyes , Mohit Randeria

This paper provides a theoretical analysis on the effects of an external Zeeman field and Rashba spin-orbit interactions on superconductivity. We have extensively studied their influence on the superconducting transition temperature $T_c$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-12 Chen Pang , Yi Zhou

A physically transparent and mathematically simple semiclassical model is employed to examine dynamics in the central-spin problem. The results reproduce a number of previous findings obtained by various quantum approaches and, at the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Tomasz Dietl

Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is a crucial ingredient for many potential applications of quantum devices, such as the use of semiconductor nanostructures for quantum computing. It is known that nonlinear conductivities are sensitive to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Kazuki Nakazawa , Henry F. Legg , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We investigate theoretically how the proximity effect in superconductor/ferromagnet hybrid structures with intrinsic spin-orbit coupling manifests in the density of states and critical temperature. To describe a general scenario, we allow…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-08-04 Sol H. Jacobsen , Jabir Ali Ouassou , Jacob Linder

We investigate the superconductivity of 3D Luttinger semimetals, such as YPtBi, where Cooper pairs are constituted of spin-3/2 quasiparticles. Various pairing mechanisms have already been considered for these semimetals, such as from polar…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-12 Serguei Tchoumakov , Louis J. Godbout , William Witczak-Krempa

In this report, we describe the proximity effect which arises when a quasicrystal is placed in contact with a superconductor. We consider the simplest known model of a quasicrystal, the 1D Fibonacci chain, for which all states are known to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-20 Gautam Rai , Stephan Haas , Anuradha Jagannathan

Boundary conditions in quasiclassical theory of superconductivity are of crucial importance for describing proximity effects in heterostructures between different materials. Although they have been derived for the ballistic case in full…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-09 M. Eschrig , A. Cottet , W. Belzig , J. Linder

Fermi gases with generalized Rashba spin orbit coupling inducedby a synthetic gauge field have the potential of realizing many interesting states such as rashbon condensates and topological phases. Here we develop a fluctuation theory of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-10-07 Jayantha P. Vyasanakere , Vijay B. Shenoy

Spin transport in superconductors offers a compelling platform to merge the dissipationless nature of superconductivity with the functional promise of spin-based electronics. A significant challenge in achieving spin polarisation in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Aleix Barrera , Huidong Li , Thomas Gunkel , Jordi Alcalà , Silvia Damerio , Can Onur Avci , Anna Palau