Engineering a p+ip superconductor: Comparison of topological insulator and Rashba spin-orbit-coupled materials

We compare topological insulator materials and Rashba-coupled surfaces as candidates for engineering p+ip superconductivity. Specifically, in each type of material we examine (1) the limitations to inducing superconductivity by proximity to an ordinary s-wave superconductor, and (2) the robustness o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Potter, Andrew Cole, Lee, Patrick A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65920
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7809-8157