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SUBMITTER: Choi DJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5424157 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Choi Deung-Jang DJ Rubio-Verdú Carmen C de Bruijckere Joeri J Ugeda Miguel M MM Lorente Nicolás N Pascual Jose Ignacio JI
Nature communications 20170508
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 states with subgap excitation energies, named Shiba states. Most conventional approaches regarding Shiba states treat magnetic impurities as point scatterers with isotropic exchange interaction. Here, we show that the number and the shape of Shiba states are correlated to the spin-polarized atomic orbitals of the impuri ...[more]