Dirac materials

TO Wehling, AM Black-Schaffer… - Advances in Physics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
A wide range of materials, like d-wave superconductors, graphene, and topological
insulators, share a fundamental similarity: their low-energy fermionic excitations behave as …

Electron-electron interactions in graphene: Current status and perspectives

VN Kotov, B Uchoa, VM Pereira, F Guinea… - Reviews of modern …, 2012 - APS
The problem of electron-electron interactions in graphene is reviewed. Starting from the
screening of long-range interactions in these systems, the existence of an emerging Dirac …

Supercurrent detection of topologically trivial zero-energy states in nanowire junctions

OA Awoga, J Cayao, AM Black-Schaffer - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
We report the emergence of zero-energy states in the trivial phase of a short nanowire
junction with a strong spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field, formed by strong coupling …

Calorimetry of a phase slip in a Josephson junction

E Gümüş, D Majidi, D Nikolić, P Raif, B Karimi… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Josephson junctions are a central element in superconducting quantum technology; in these
devices, irreversibility arises from abrupt slips of the quantum phase difference across the …

Current-phase relation of ballistic graphene Josephson junctions

G Nanda, JL Aguilera-Servin, P Rakyta… - Nano Letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
The current-phase relation (CPR) of a Josephson junction (JJ) determines how the
supercurrent evolves with the superconducting phase difference across the junction …

Proximity coupling in superconductor-graphene heterostructures

GH Lee, HJ Lee - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This review discusses the electronic properties and the prospective research directions of
superconductor-graphene heterostructures. The basic electronic properties of graphene are …

Efficient Numerical Approach to Inhomogeneous Superconductivity:<? format?> The Chebyshev-Bogoliubov–de Gennes Method

L Covaci, FM Peeters, M Berciu - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
We propose a highly efficient numerical method to describe inhomogeneous
superconductivity by using the kernel polynomial method in order to calculate the Green's …

Currents induced by magnetic impurities in superconductors with spin-orbit coupling

SS Pershoguba, K Björnson, AM Black-Schaffer… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
We show that superconducting currents are generated around magnetic impurities and
ferromagnetic islands proximity coupled to superconductors with finite spin-orbit coupling …

Edge Properties and Majorana Fermions in the Proposed Chiral -Wave Superconducting <?format ?>State of Doped Graphene

AM Black-Schaffer - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
We investigate the effect of edges on the intrinsic d-wave superconducting state in graphene
doped close to the van Hove singularity. While the bulk is in a chiral dx 2-y 2+ idxy state, the …

Flat-band transport and Josephson effect through a finite-size sawtooth lattice

VAJ Pyykkönen, S Peotta, P Fabritius, J Mohan… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We study theoretically the transport through a finite-size sawtooth lattice coupled to two
fermionic reservoirs kept in the superfluid state. We focus on the DC Josephson effect and …