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A superconductor-semiconducting nanowire-superconductor heterostructure in the presence of spin orbit coupling and magnetic field can support a supercurrent even in the absence of phase difference between the superconducting electrodes. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Campagnano , P. Lucignano , D. Giuliano , A. Tagliacozzo

Odd-frequency superconductivity is an exotic superconducting state in which the symmetry of the gap function is odd in frequency. Here we show that an inherent odd-frequency mode emerges dynamically under application of a Lorentz…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-09 Patrick J. Wong , Alexander V. Balatsky

The quantum mechanics of the Josephson effect is the core ingredient for quantum technologies with superconducting circuits. A new avenue was recently opened in this field by predicting that the Josephson quantum mechanics in the odd parity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer , Yuli V. Nazarov

Intermetallic compounds containing f-electron elements display a wealth of superconducting phases, that are prime candidates for unconventional pairing with complex order parameter symmetries. For instance, superconductivity has been found…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-01-19 C. Pfleiderer

We first show the realization of exceptional points in a non-Hermitian superconducting system based on a conventional superconductor and then demonstrate that, surprisingly, the system hosts odd-frequency pairing, solely generated by the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-08 Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model describes fermions that hop on a one-dimensional chain with staggered hopping amplitude, where the unit cell contains two sites, or two sublattices. In this work we consider the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-09 Shun Tamura , Sho Nakosai , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Yukio Tanaka , Jorge Cayao

Multi-gap superconductors can exhibit qualitatively new phenomena due to existence of multiple order parameters. Repulsive electronic interactions may give rise to a phase difference of $\pi$ between the phases of the order parameters.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 D. F. Agterberg , Eugene Demler , B. Janko

Exerting control of the magnetic exchange interaction in heterostructures is of both basic interest and has potential for use in spin-based applications relying on quantum effects. We here show that the sign of the exchange interaction in a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-03 Jabir Ali Ouassou , Jacob Linder

In several members of the pnictide materials, spin density wave order coexists with superconductivity over a range of dopings and temperature. In this paper we show that odd-frequency superconductivity emerges on the edges of pnictides in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-12 Cody Youmans , Areg Ghazaryan , Mehdi Kargarian , Pouyan Ghaemi

A theoretical study is presented on the odd-frequency spin-singlet pairing that arises in nonuniform even-frequency superconductors as a consequence of broken translation symmetry. The effect of the odd-frequency pairing on the superfluid…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-05-13 S. Higashitani

For certain orientations of Josephson junctions between two p_x-wave or two d-wave superconductors, the subgap Andreev bound states produce a 4pi-periodic relation between the Josephson current I and the phase difference phi: I ~…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Hyok-Jon Kwon , K. Sengupta , Victor M. Yakovenko

We demonstrate that in multilayered superconductor-ferromagnet structures a non-collinear alignment of the magnetizations of different ferromagnetic layers generates a triplet superconducting condensate which is odd in frequency. This…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 A. F. Volkov , F. S. Bergeret , K. B. Efetov

Using the Gorkov equations, we provide an exact solution for a one-dimensional model of superconductivity in the presence of a conical helicoidal exchange field. Due to the special type of symmetry of the system, the superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-01-10 Hao Meng , A. V. Samokhvalov , A. I. Buzdin

Transportation of Cooper-pairs by a movable single Cooper-pair-box placed between two remote superconductors is shown to establish coherent coupling between them. This coupling is due to entanglement of the movable box with the leads and is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Isacsson , L. Y. Gorelik , R. I. Shekhter , Y. M. Galperin , M. Jonson

It is now well established that at a superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F) interface an unconventional superconducting state arises in which the pairing state is odd-frequency. The hallmark signature of this superconducting state is generally…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-28 J. Linder , J. W. A. Robinson

We consider a two-dimensional disordered conductor in the regime when the superconducting phase is destroyed by the magnetic field. We analyze a combination of fluctuations of different origin which results in an effective interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-28 Vladimir A. Zyuzin , Alexander M. Finkel'stein

The spin superconductor state is the spin-polarized triplet exciton condensate, which can be viewed as a counterpart of the charge superconductor state. As an analogy of the charge Josephson effect, the spin Josephson effect can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 W. Zeng , R. Shen

We consider the model of superconducting pairing with the energy gap function which is odd over $k-k_{F}$.\ In this case superconductivity is possible even in the presence of an arbitrarily large point-like repulsion between electrons,\…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Z. Kuchinskii , M. V. Sadovskii , M. A. Erkabaev

We discuss a strong relationship between Majorana fermions and odd-frequency Cooper pairs which appear at a disordered normal (N) nano wire attached to a topologically nontrivial superconducting (S) one. The transport properties in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-22 Yasuhiro Asano , Yukio Tanaka

Superconductor-based light-emitting diode (superconductor-based LED) in strong light-confinement regime are characterized as a superconductor-based three-terminal device, and its transport properties are quantitatively investigated. In the…