Advances and challenges in single-molecule electron transport

F Evers, R Korytár, S Tewari, JM Van Ruitenbeek - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
Electronic transport properties of single-molecule junctions have been widely measured by
several techniques, including mechanically controllable break junctions, electromigration …

Single magnetic adsorbates on s-wave superconductors

BW Heinrich, JI Pascual, KJ Franke - Progress in Surface Science, 2018 - Elsevier
In superconductors, magnetic impurities induce a pair-breaking potential for Cooper pairs,
which locally affects the Bogoliubov quasiparticles and gives rise to Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR …

Spin-orbit coupling induced splitting of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states in antiferromagnetic dimers

P Beck, L Schneider, L Rózsa, K Palotás… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Magnetic atoms coupled to the Cooper pairs of a superconductor induce Yu-Shiba-Rusinov
states (in short Shiba states). In the presence of sufficiently strong spin-orbit coupling, the …

Enhancing the excitation gap of a quantum-dot-based Kitaev chain

CX Liu, AM Bozkurt, F Zatelli, SLD ten Haaf… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Connecting double quantum dots via a semiconductor-superconductor hybrid segment
offers a platform for creating a two-site Kitaev chain that hosts Majorana zero modes at a …

Tuning the coupling of an individual magnetic impurity to a superconductor: quantum phase transition and transport

L Farinacci, G Ahmadi, G Reecht, M Ruby… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
The exchange scattering at magnetic adsorbates on superconductors gives rise to Yu-Shiba-
Rusinov (YSR) bound states. Depending on the strength of the exchange coupling, the …

Monolayer 1T-NbSe2 as a 2D-correlated magnetic insulator

M Liu, J Leveillee, S Lu, J Yu, H Kim, C Tian, Y Shi… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Monolayer group V transition metal dichalcogenides in their 1T phase have recently
emerged as a platform to investigate rich phases of matter, such as spin liquid and …

Orbital picture of yu-shiba-rusinov multiplets

M Ruby, Y Peng, F von Oppen, BW Heinrich… - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
We investigate the nature of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) subgap states induced by single
manganese (Mn) atoms adsorbed on different surface orientations of superconducting lead …

Tunable spin–superconductor coupling of spin 1/2 vanadyl phthalocyanine molecules

L Malavolti, M Briganti, M Hänze, G Serrano… - Nano Letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
Atomic-scale magnetic moments in contact with superconductors host rich physics based on
the emergence of Yu–Shiba–Rusinov (YSR) magnetic bound states within the …

Mapping the orbital structure of impurity bound states in a superconductor

DJ Choi, C Rubio-Verdú, J De Bruijckere… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
A magnetic atom inside a superconductor locally distorts superconductivity. It scatters
Cooper pairs as a potential with broken time-reversal symmetry, leading to localized bound …

Coupled Yu–Shiba–Rusinov States in Molecular Dimers on NbSe2

S Kezilebieke, M Dvorak, T Ojanen, P Liljeroth - Nano letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
Magnetic impurities have a dramatic effect on superconductivity by breaking the time-
reversal symmetry and inducing so-called Yu–Shiba–Rusinov (YSR) low energy bound …