Speaker
Annica BLACK-SCHAFFER
Description
I will present results on using a lattice tight-binding
Bogoliubov-de Gennes formulation of nonuniform
superconducting systems and solving self-consistently for
the superconducting order parameter. Systems studied include
Josephson junctions in graphene and spin-orbit coupled
semiconductors, superconducting vortices in spin-orbit
coupled semiconductors, and studies of the local effect of
impurities and disordered edges in unconventional
superconductors. While the method has limitations,
especially with regards to system sizes possible to study,
it offers a microscopically accurate description of the
superconducting state, which can be crucial for a correct
physical description of nonuniform superconducting systems.
