  Understanding depairing effects in a hybrid-superconducting interface
utilizing high spin-orbit materials such as topological insulators or 1D
semiconducting nanowires is becoming an important research topic in the study
of proximity-induced superconductivity. Experimentally, proximity-induced
superconductivity is found to suppress at much lower magnetic fields compared
to the superconducting layer without a good understanding of its cause. Here,
we provide a phenomenological tool to characterize different pair-breaking
mechanisms, the ones that break or preserve time reversal symmetry, and show
how they affect the differential tunneling conductance response. Importantly,
we probe the properties of the SC layer at the hybrid interface and observe
conductance peak pinning at zero bias in a larger field range with eventual
signs of weak peak splitting. Further, the effect of varying the spin-orbit
scattering and the Lande g-factor in tuning the conductance peaks show
interesting trends.
