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Twin boundaries are generic crystalline defects in noncentrosymmetric crystal structures. We study theoretically twin boundaries in time-reversal symmetric noncentrosymmetric superconductors that admit parity-mixed Cooper pairing. Twin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-06-25 Emiko Arahata , Titus Neupert , Manfred Sigrist

Recently, a theoretical study [Li {\it et al.},~npj Quantum Materials 6, 36 (2021)] investigated a model of a disordered $d$-wave superconductor, and reported local time-reversal symmetry breaking current loops for sufficiently high…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-05 Clara N. Breiø , P. J. Hirschfeld , Brian M. Andersen

We compare different scenarios for the low temperature splitting of the zero-energy peak in the local density of states at (110) surfaces of d_{x^2-y^2}-wave superconductors, observed by Covington et al. (Phys.Rev.Lett.79 (1997), 277).…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Carsten Honerkamp , Katsunori Wakabayashi , Manfred Sigrist

We study surface states of high-$T_C$ cuprate superconductor YBCO using the bilayer $t-J$ model. Calculations based on the Bogoliubov de Gennes method show that a flux phase that breaks time-reversal symmetry (${\cal T}$) may arise near a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-11 Kazuhiro Kuboki

The proximity effect, quasiparticle transport, and local magnetic moment in ferromagnet--d-wave superconductor junctions with {110}-oriented interface are studied by solving self-consistently the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations within an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Jian-Xin Zhu , C. S. Ting

We report self-consistent quasiclassical calculations of spontaneous currents and magnetic moments in finite size unconventional superconducting systems, namely: (i) in isolated d-wave superconductor islands where, in addition to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 M. H. S. Amin , S. N. Rashkeev , M. Coury , A. N. Omelyanchouk , A. M. Zagoskin

The superconducting state of SRO is widely believed to have chiral p-wave order that breaks time reversal symmetry. Such a state is expected to have a spontaneous magnetization, both at sample edges and at domain walls between regions of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-30 Phillip E. C. Ashby , Catherine Kallin

Pair-breaking edges of $d$-wave superconductors feature Andreev bound states at the Fermi energy. Since these states are energetically highly unfavorable they are susceptible to effects that shift them to finite energy. We investigate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-07 Kevin Marc Seja , Niclas Wall-Wennerdal , Tomas Löfwander , Mikael Fogelström

We study theoretically the surface of time-reversal-symmetric, noncentrosymmetric superconductor with mixed singlet and triplet order parameters. A pair of counterpropagating subgap quasiparticle surface bound states with opposite spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-09-06 Chi-Ken Lu , Sungkit Yip

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

Spatial distributions of spontaneous magnetic fields near a surface of cuprate high-$T_C$ superconductor YBCO with broken time-reversal symmetry are calculated using the Ginzburg-Landau theory derived from the $t-J$ model. It is found that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-02 Kazuhiro Kuboki

The effects of finite temperature, Meissner screening and surface roughness on the spontaneous edge current for higher chirality quasi-two dimensional superconductors are studied in the continuum limit using the quasiclassical Eilenberger…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-09-05 Xin Wang , Zhiqiang Wang , Catherine Kallin

We analyze the charge and spin transport through a ballistic ferromagnet/insulator/superconductor junction by means of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. For the ferromagnetic side we assume that ferromagnetism may be driven by an unequal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 Gaetano Annunziata , Mario Cuoco , Paola Gentile , Alfonso Romano , Canio Noce

We present an extensive theoretical investigation of the proximity effects that occur in Ferromagnet/Superconductor ($F/S$) systems. We use a numerical method to solve self consistently the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations in the continuum.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Klaus Halterman , Oriol T. Valls

We use the Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism and study the ground-state phases of trapped spin-orbit coupled Fermi gases in two dimensions. Our main finding is that the presence of a symmetric (Rashba type) spin-orbit coupling spontaneously…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-06-21 E. Doko , A. L. Subasi , M. Iskin

The electronic structure of the superconducting surface sheath in a type-II superconductor in magnetic fields $H_{c2}<H<H_{c3}$ is calculated self-consistently using the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. We find that the pair potential…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Robert J. Troy , Alan T. Dorsey

A formula of the spin current in mesoscopic superconductors is derived from the mean-field theory of superconductivity. The spin flow is generated by the spatial fluctuations of $\vec{d}$ which represents a spin state of spin-triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Asano

We study the impurity effect in the time reversal symmetry (${\cal T}$) breaking superconductor based on the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) equations. In ${\cal T}$-violating superconductors, spontaneous currents are induced around the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Yikihiro Okuno

At a (110) surface of a $d_{x^2-y-2}$-wave superconductor, superconducting order is strongly suppressed. In such a situation, ordered states that are forbidden in the bulk may arise. This problem is studied for high-$T_C$ cuprate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 Kazuhiro Kuboki

The unconventional Josephson coupling in a ferromagnetic weak link between d-wave superconductors is studied theoretically. For strong ferromagnetic barrier influence, the unconventional coupling, with ground state phase difference across…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Z. Radovic , L. Dobrosavljevic--Grujic , B. Vujicic