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We study the electronic transport properties of a superconductor (S) with a mixed s+p-wave pairing attached to a ferromagnetic metal (F) and a normal electrode (N) in an SFN configuration. Using the quasiclassical Green's function method,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-08 Tim Kokkeler , Alberto Hijano , F. Sebastián Bergeret

Odd-frequency Cooper pairs are gathering attention for the convenience of investigating the edge state of topological superconductors including Majorana fermions. Although a spinless p-wave superconductor has only one Majorana fermion in a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-08 Daijiro Takagi , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Yukio Tanaka , Mario Cuoco

This paper discusses the origin of a nonuniform superconducting state in which Cooper pairs have a small but finite center-of-mass momentum. We analyze the instability of the normal state to such finite-momentum states using the pole of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-25 Takumi Sato , Satoru Hayami , Shingo Kobayashi , Yasuhiro Asano

We study fermionic superfluidity in a boson-single-species-fermion cold atom mixture. We argue that apart from the standard p-wave fermion pairing mediated by the phonon field of the boson gas, the system also exhibits s-wave pairing with…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-11 Ryan M. Kalas , Alexander V. Balatsky , Dmitry Mozyrsky

Odd-frequency superconductivity is an exotic phase of matter in which Cooper pairing between electrons is entirely dynamical in nature. Majorana zero modes exhibit pure odd-frequency superconducting correlations due to their specific…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-11 Dushko Kuzmanovski , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Jorge Cayao

Recent experimental results indicate the possible realization of a bulk odd-frequency superconducting state in the compounds CeCu$_2$Si$_2$, and CeRhIn$_5$. Motivated by this, we present a study of the quantum transport properties of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-05-07 Jacob Linder , Takehito Yokoyama , Yukio Tanaka , Yasuhiro Asano , Asle Sudbø

Unconventional superconducting states of matter are realized in the presence of strong spin orbit coupling. In particular, non degenerate bands can support odd parity superconductivity with rich topological content. Here we study whether…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-16 Huazhou Wei , Sung-Po Chao , Vivek Aji

In order to clarify whether the odd-frequency superconductivity can be realized or not, we study a quasi-one-dimensional triangular lattice in the Hubbard model using the random phase approximation (RPA) and the fluctuation exchange (FLEX)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-02-13 Keisuke Shigeta , Seiichiro Onari , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka

We study the effective symmetry profiles of superconducting pair correlations and the flow of charge supercurrent in ballistic Weyl semimetal systems with a tilted dispersion relation. Utilizing a microscopic method in the ballistic regime…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-15 Mohammad Alidoust , Klaus Halterman

We consider a finite-size topological Josephson junction formed at the edge of a two-dimensional topological insulator in proximity to conventional superconductors and study the impact of Cooper pair symmetries on the electron transport. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-13 Jorge Cayao , Paramita Dutta , Pablo Burset , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We discuss dynamical response of odd-frequency Cooper pairs to electromagnetic field. By using the quasiclassical Green function method, we calculate the surface impedance (Z=R-iX) of a normal metal thin film which covers a superconductor.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-08-25 Yasuhiro Asano , Alexander A. Golubov , Yakov V. Fominov , Yukio Tanaka

Odd-parity magnetism constitutes an intriguing phase of matter which breaks inversion symmetry while preserving time-reversal symmetry. Here we demonstrate that the Fe-based superconductors exhibiting coplanar magnetic order realize an…

In this work, we investigate the Josephson effect between a two-band superconductor either with the $s++$ (two energy gaps have the same sign and are fully gapped) pairing symmetry or $s\pm$ (two energy gaps have $\pi$ phase difference and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-07-12 Shi-Zeng Lin

Unconventional superconductors have been long sought for their potential applications in quantum technologies and devices. A key challenge impeding this effort is the difficulty associated with probing and characterizing candidate materials…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-23 Jonathan B. Curtis , Nicholas R. Poniatowski , Amir Yacoby , Prineha Narang

Transport properties of a superconductor-semiconductor-superconductor (S-Sm-S) junction with superlattice structure are investigated. Differential resistance as a function of voltage shows oscillatory behavior under the irradiation of…

We explore transport properties of a normal metal-superconductor-normal metal (NSN) junction, where the superconducting region supports mixed singlet and chiral triplet pairings. We show that in the subgapped regime when the chiral triplet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Ganesh C. Paul , Paramita Dutta , Arijit Saha

Quasiclassical theory predicts an existence of a sharp energy gap E_g \sim D/L^2 in the excitation spectrum of a long diffusive superconductor--normal metal--superconductor (SNS) junction. We show that mesoscopic fluctuations remove the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. M. Ostrovsky , M. A. Skvortsov , M. V. Feigel'man

We study the Josephson effects arising in junctions made of non-centrosymmetric superconductors with spin-triplet pairing having $s$-wave orbital-singlet symmetry. We demonstrate that the orbital dependent character of the spin-triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-21 Yuri Fukaya , Yukio Tanaka , Paola Gentile , Keiji Yada , Mario Cuoco

A composite pairing structure of superconducting state is revealed by density matrix renormalization group study in a two-leg $t$-$J$ model. The pairing order parameter is composed of a pairing amplitude and a phase factor, in which the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-15 Hao-Kai Zhang , Rong-Yang Sun , Zheng-Yu Weng

We self-consistently study surface states of superconducting topological insulators. We clarify that, if a topologically trivial bulk s-wave pairing symmetry is realized, parity mixing of pair potential near the surface is anomalously…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-11-27 Takeshi Mizushima , Ai Yamakage , Masatoshi Sato , Yukio Tanaka