Density-functional description of materials for topological qubits and superconducting spintronics

Philipp Rüßmann; David Antognini Silva; Mohammad Hemmati; Ilias Klepetsanis; Björn Trauzettel; Phivos Mavropoulos; Stefan Blügel

doi:10.1117/12.2678145

28 September 2023 Density-functional description of materials for topological qubits and superconducting spintronics

Philipp Rüßmann, David Antognini Silva, Mohammad Hemmati, Ilias Klepetsanis, Björn Trauzettel, Phivos Mavropoulos, Stefan Blügel

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Proceedings Volume 12656, Spintronics XVI; 126560S (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2678145
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2023, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Interfacing superconductors with magnetic or topological materials offers a playground where novel phenomena like topological superconductivity, Majorana zero modes, or superconducting spintronics are emerging. In this work, we discuss recent developments in the Kohn-Sham Bogoliubov-de Gennes method, which allows to perform material-specific simulations of complex superconducting heterostructures on the basis of density functional theory. As a model system we study magnetically-doped Pb. In our analysis we focus on the interplay of magnetism and superconductivity. This combination leads to Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) in-gap bound states at magnetic defects and the breakdown of superconductivity at larger impurity concentrations. Moreover, the influence of spin-orbit coupling and on orbital splitting of YSR states as well as the appearance of a triplet component in the order parameter is discussed. These effects can be exploited in S/F/S-type devices (S=superconductor, F=ferromagnet) in the field of superconducting spintronics.

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Philipp Rüßmann, David Antognini Silva, Mohammad Hemmati, Ilias Klepetsanis, Björn Trauzettel, Phivos Mavropoulos, and Stefan Blügel "Density-functional description of materials for topological qubits and superconducting spintronics", Proc. SPIE 12656, Spintronics XVI, 126560S (28 September 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2678145

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