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Spin singlet superconductors with quasi-two dimensional multilayer structure are studied in high magnetic fields. Specifically we concentrate on bi- and tri-layer systems whose layers by symmetry are subject Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-11 Tomohiro Yoshida , Manfred Sigrist , Youichi Yanase

We explain how Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG), or in a conventional $s$-wave superconductor, can lead to a large magnetoresistance even with one ferromagnet. However, such enhanced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Chenghao Shen , Ranran Cai , Alex Matos-Abiague , Wei Han , Jong E. Han , Igor Zutic

We study the Andreev bound states in a Josephson junction between a singlet and a triplet superconductors. Because of the mismatch in the spin symmetries of pairing, the energies of the spin up and down quasiparticles are generally…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-02-27 K. Sengupta , Victor M. Yakovenko

Altermagnets host unconventional spin-polarized bands despite zero net magnetization, but controlling their spin structure remains challenging. We propose a multi-field approach to engineer spin polarization in $d$-wave altermagnets using…

Evidence is presented for the finite wave vector crossing of the two lowest one-dimensional spin-split subbands in quantum point contacts fabricated from two-dimensional hole gases with strong spin-orbit interaction. This phenomenon offers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Stefano Chesi , Gabriele F. Giuliani , L. P. Rokhinson , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Electronic transport with a line (or a few lines) of Anderson type disorder in a zigzag graphene nanoribbon is investigated in presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Such line disorders give rise to peculiar behavior in both charge as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-01 Sudin Ganguly , Saurabh Basu , Santanu K. Maiti

We show that a two-dimensional semiconductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling could be driven into the second-order topological superconducting phase when a mixed-pairing state is introduced. The superconducting order we consider involves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Xiaoyu Zhu

Theoretical studies have shown that Majorana bound states can be induced at the ends of a one dimensional wire, a phenomenon possible due to the interplay between s-wave superconductivity, spin-orbit coupling, and an external magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Aksel Kobiałka , Nicholas Sedlmayr , Andrzej Ptok

Altermagnets emerge as a novel platform for realizing unconventional superconductivity through their exotic momentum-dependent spin-splitting of electronic band structures. Recent experiments have uncovered a novel form of altermagnetism…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-27 Tilen Cadez , Abraham Nathan Sunanta , Kyoung-Min Kim

Superconductivity in materials without spatial inversion symmetry is studied. We show that in contrast to common believe, spin-triplet pairing is not entirely excluded in such systems. Moreover, paramagnetic limiting is analyzed for both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Frigeri , D. F. Agterberg , A. Koga , M. Sigrist

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 develop a four-sublattice spin-wave theory for the $g$-wave altermagnet candidate hematite ($\alpha$-Fe$_2$O$_3$), considering both its easy-axis phase below and its weak ferromagnetic phase above the Morin temperature. A key question is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-18 Rhea Hoyer , P. Peter Stavropoulos , Aleksandar Razpopov , Roser Valentí , Libor Šmejkal , Alexander Mook

Odd-frequency superconductivity represents a truly unconventional ordered state which, in contrast to conventional superconductivity, exhibits pair correlations which are odd in relative time and, hence, inherently dynamical. In this review…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-14 Jorge Cayao , Christopher Triola , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Compensated magnetic orders that can split the spin-degeneracy of electronic bands have become a very active field of research. As opposed to spin-orbit coupling, the splitting resulting from these "altermagnets" is not a small relativistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Saurav Sachin , Mathias S. Scheurer , Constantin Schrade , Sujit Manna

Multiferroic materials, characterized by the coexisting of ferroelectric polarization (breaking spatial inversion symmetry) and magnetism (breaking time-reversal symmetry), with strong magnetoelectric coupling, are highly sought after for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-14 Wei Sun , Wenxuan Wang , Changhong Yang , Ying Liu , Xiaotian Wang , Shifeng Huang , Zhenxiang Cheng

This paper investigates the energy and angular momentum radiation of altermagnets under Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) and external magnetic fields. Using an effective low-energy Hamiltonian, we derive electronic energy bands and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Yong-Mei Zhang , Zhi- Ping Niu

Non-relativistic spin--momentum locking in altermagnets exhibits an even number of nodal planes. In the relativistic limit, the number of nodal planes can be lowered by symmetry reduction due to the N\'eel vector and spin--orbit coupling in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-25 Xujia Gong , Amar Fakhredine , Sahar Izadi Vishkayi , Carmine Autieri

In this work, we show that a quasi-one-dimensional $d_{x^2-y^2}$-wave superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling is a DIII class, time-reversal invariant, topological superconductor (TS) which supports a Majorana Kramers Doublet (MKD)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-12 Chris L. M. Wong , K. T. Law

We investigate the metal-insulator transition occurring in two-dimensional (2D) systems of noninteracting atoms in the presence of artificial spin-orbit interactions and a spatially correlated disorder generated by laser speckles. Based on…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-23 Giuliano Orso

Searching for triplet superconductivity has been pursued intensively in a broad field of material science and quantum information for decades. Nevertheless, these novel states remain rare. Within a simplified effective three-orbital model,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-10-31 Jingyao Wang , Xiao Zhang , Runyu Ma , Guang Yang , Eduardo V. Castro , Tianxing Ma