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chair: V. Fomin
The famed p-wave superconductivity harbors a variety of exotic topological states. The practical ways for its implementing are being extensively discussed in literature, and the contact of a superconductor with the topological insulator is expected to become the most promising candidate. There have been reports of the 4π-periodicity in such contacts, which are a hallmark of the p-wave...
Transport measurements of the superconductor-insulator transition (SIT) in disordered two-dimensional films and Josephson junction arrays showed the existence of an anomalous metallic phase that persists to low temperatures. The nature of this mysterious phase often referred to as “Bose metal,” remains unclear. We develop a gauge theory of the Bose metal as the phase in which Cooper pairs and...
Recent interest in the effect of intrinsic spin-orbit coupling in materials that exhibit an excitation gap has led to the notions of topological insulators and topological superconductors. Intrinsic spin-orbit coupling is enhanced in non-centrosymmetric materials, as in this case already band-diagonal matrix elements contribute. We study non-centrosymmetric superconductors with various point...
Quantum dynamics is very sensitive to dimensionality. While two-dimensional electronic systems form Fermi liquids, one-dimensional systems - Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids - are described by purely bosonic excitations, even though they are initially made of fermions.
With the advent of coherent single-electron sources [1- 3], the quantum dynamics of such a liquid is now accessible at the...
