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Pseudo-Ising superconductivity induced by $p$-wave magnetism

Superconductivity 2025-12-23 v2

Abstract

Unconventional magnetic orders usually interplay with superconductivity in intriguing ways. Here we propose that a conventional superconductor in proximity to a compensated pp-wave magnet exhibits behaviors analogous to those of Ising superconductivity found in transition-metal dichalcogenides, which we refer to as pseudo-Ising superconductivity. The pseudo-Ising superconductivity is characterized by several distinctive features: (i) it stays much more robust under strong pp-wave magnetism than usual ferromagnetism or dd-wave altermagnetism, thanks to the apparent time-reversal symmetry in pp-wave spin splitting; (ii) in the low-temperature regime, a second-order superconducting phase transition occurs at a significantly enhanced in-plane upper critical magnetic field Bc2B_{c2}; (iii) the supercurrent-carrying state establishes non-vanishing out-of-plane spin magnetization, which is forbidden by symmetry in Rahsba and Ising superconductors. We further propose a spin-orbit-free scheme to realize Majorana zero modes by placing superconducting quantum wires on a pp-wave magnet. Our work establishes a new form of unconventional superconductivity generated by pp-wave magnetism.

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@article{arxiv.2501.10960,
  title  = {Pseudo-Ising superconductivity induced by $p$-wave magnetism},
  author = {Zi-Ting Sun and Xilin Feng and Ying-Ming Xie and Benjamin T. Zhou and Jin-Xin Hu and K. T. Law},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.10960},
  year   = {2025}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures, plus Supplemental Material

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