Talk (non-conference) (Invited)

FZJ-2025-03679

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Blügel, S.FZJ*

2025

Abstract: With the advent of quantum technology and quantum computing, devices at cryogenic temperature become much more wide spread. This also opens opportunities to include superconducting interfaces into the scientific game. For example, the combination of superconductors with magnetic or topological materials offers a playground where new phenomena such as topological superconductivity, Majorana zero modes or superconducting spintronics can emerge. Sofar, superconductivity was mostly investigated on the basis of single s-band models. We changed this providing a materials specific description of complex superconducting heterostructures based on density functional theory by developing the Kohn-Sham Bogoliubov-de Gennes (KS-BdG) method [1] into the Jülich Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker Greenfunction method (juKKR) [2]. By this we turn from a single band model to multiband effects in hybrid structures, which provides a new rich playground for unconventional superconductivity. I briefly present our method and will show several examples. One example is the Au/Al heterostructure [3], which allows us to predict finite-energy superconducting pairing due to the interplay of the Rashba surface state of Au, with the hybridization to the electronic structure of superconducting Al. We investigate the nature of the induced superconducting pairing, and we quantify its mixed singlet-triplet character. Our findings demonstrate general recipes to explore real material systems that exhibit interorbital pairing away from the Fermi energy.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Quanten-Theorie der Materialien (PGI-1)

Research Program(s):

1. 5211 - Topological Matter (POF4-521) (POF4-521)
2. 3D MAGiC - Three-dimensional magnetization textures: Discovery and control on the nanoscale (856538) (856538)
3. SFB 1238 C01 - Strukturinversionsasymmetrische Materie und Spin-Orbit-Phänomene mittels ab initio (C01) (319898210) (319898210)

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