Proximitized materials

I Žutić, A Matos-Abiague, B Scharf, H Dery… - Materials Today, 2019 - Elsevier
Advances in scaling down heterostructures and having an improved interface quality
together with atomically thin two-dimensional materials suggest a novel approach to …

Interaction effects on a Majorana zero mode leaking into a quantum dot

DA Ruiz-Tijerina, E Vernek, LGGV Dias da Silva… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We have recently shown [Phys. Rev. B 89, 165314 (2014) PRBMDO 1098-0121
10.1103/PhysRevB. 89.165314] that a noninteracting quantum dot coupled to a one …

Tunable magnetic textures in spin valves: From spintronics to Majorana bound states

T Zhou, N Mohanta, JE Han, A Matos-Abiague, I Žutić - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Spin-valve structures in which a change of magnetic configuration is responsible for
magnetoresistance led to impressive advances in spintronics, focusing on magnetically …

Pressure Induced Nonmonotonic Evolution of Superconductivity in with a Natural Bulk Van der Waals Heterostructure

S Wang, Y Han, S Sun, S Wang, C An, C Chen… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The natural bulk Van der Waals heterostructure compound 6 R-TaS 2 consists of alternate
stacking 1 T-and 1 H-TaS 2 monolayers, creating a unique system that incorporates charge …

Enhanced spin-triplet pairing in magnetic junctions with -wave superconductors

T Vezin, C Shen, JE Han, I Žutić - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
A common path to superconducting spintronics, Majorana fermions, and topologically
protected quantum computing relies on spin-triplet superconductivity. While naturally …

Signatures of enhanced spin-triplet superconductivity induced by interfacial properties

C Shen, JE Han, T Vezin, M Alidoust, I Žutić - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
While spin-triplet pairing remains elusive in nature, there is a growing effort to realize
proximity-induced equal-spin triplet superconductivity in junctions with magnetic regions or …

Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition to the Superconducting<? format?> State of Heavy-Fermion Superlattices

JH She, AV Balatsky - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
We propose an explanation of the superconducting transitions discovered in the heavy-
fermion superlattices by Mizukami et al.[Nature Phys. 7, 849 (2011)] in terms of Berezinskii …

Probing Majorana-like states in quantum dots and quantum rings

B Scharf, I Žutić - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Engineering chiral p-wave superconductivity in semiconductor structures offers fascinating
ways to obtain and study Majorana modes in a condensed-matter context. Here, we …

Tunnel conductance spectroscopy via harmonic generation in a hybrid capacitor device

I Appelbaum - Applied Physics Letters, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
I address the measurement of density of states within and beyond the superconducting gap
in tunnel-coupled finite-size nanostructures using a capacitive method. Third-harmonic …

Optimizing the proximity effect along the BCS side of the BCS-BEC crossover

V Piselli, S Simonucci, GC Strinati - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
The proximity effect, which arises at the interface between two fermionic superfluids with
different critical temperatures, is examined with a nonlocal (integral) equation whose kernel …