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The optical Hall conductivity and the polar Kerr angle are calculated as functions of temperature for a two-dimensional chiral p_x+ip_y superconductor, where the time-reversal symmetry is spontaneously broken. The theoretical estimate for…
We present zero field and transverse field \muSR experiments on the recently discovered electron doped Fe-based superconductor LaO_{1-x}F_xFeAs. The zero field experiments on underdoped (x=0.075) and optimally doped (x=0.1) samples rule out…
A superconductor with broken time reversal and inversion symmetry may exhibit nonreciprocal charge transport, including a nonreciprocal critical current, also known as superconducting diode effect. We report an intrinsic superconducting…
We report measurements of the magnetic penetration depth $\lambda$ in single crystals of PrOs$_{4}$Sb$_{12}$ down to $\sim$0.1 K using a tunnel-diode based, self-inductive technique at 21 MHz, with the ac field applied along the \textit{a},…
Pr$_{1-x}$Ca$_x$Ba$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-\delta}$($x\approx$0.5) thin films have been grown on SrTiO$_3$ and YSZ substrates by the pulsed laser ablation. The substrate temperature dependence of orientation and superconducting poperties were…
We present specific heat measurements which show an unexpected phase transition from d-wave symmetry to s-wave symmetry as the temperature is reduced in electron-doped Pr$_{2-x}$Ce$_{x}$CuO$_{4-\delta}$ (PCCO), in both optimal and…
In the context of an effective model for doped antiferromagnets, whereby the charge carriers are treated as hard-core bosons, we demonstrate that the ground state energy close to half-filling is an even periodic function of the external…
The superconducting state formed due to direct intra-orbital pairing in tetragonal multi-band superconductor Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ has different properties than the state formed due to intra-band pairing. In particular, the theory operating with…
Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations and upper critical magnetic field ($H\_{c2}$) of the iron-based superconductor FeSe ($T\_c$ = 8.6 K) have been studied by tunnel diode oscillator-based measurements in magnetic fields of up to 55 T and…
DC and finite frequency transport measurements of thin films of amorphous indium oxide that were driven through the critical point of superconductor-insulator transition by the application of perpendicular magnetic field are presented. The…
The thermal conductivity of Sr2RuO4 along the least conducting direction perpendicular to the RuO2 plane has been studied down to 0.3 K. In this configuration the phonons remain the dominant heat carriers down to the lowest temperature, and…
We examine weak-coupling theory for unconventional superconducting states of cubic or tetrahedral symmetry for arbitrary order parameters and Fermi surfaces and identify the stable states in zero applied field. We further examine the…
General field theory of a fluctuating d-wave superconductor is constructed and proposed as an effective description of superconducting cuprates at low energies. The theory is used to resolve a puzzle posed by recent experiments on…
We compute the field-angle-resolved specific heat and thermal conductivity using realistic model band structure for the heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn5 to identify the gap structure and location of nodes. We use a two-band…
The mechanism of superconductivity in Pr$_2$Ba$_4$Cu$_7$O$_{15-\delta}$ is studied using a quasi-one dimensional double chain model with appopriate hopping integrals, on-site $U$, and off-site repulsion $V_1$. Applying the fluctuation…
Based on the microscopic model introduced previously the observed specific heat and ac-susceptibility data in the superconducting phase in Sr_2RuO_4 with applied magnetic fields are described consistently within a phenomenological approach.…
In a high mobility two-dimensional electron system in Si, near the critical density, $n_c=0.32\times10^{11}$cm$^{-2}$, of the apparent metal-to-insulator transition, the conductivity displays a linear temperature ($T$) dependence around the…
Both the highest- and the linear temperature dependence of the resistivity in wide temperature range appear at the optimally doped regions of Cu-based superconductors1,2,3,4,5, and the highest- of Fe-based superconductors6,7 are also…
The optical conductivity, $\sigma(\omega)$, of the two dimensional one-band Hubbard model is calculated at finite temperature using exact diagonalization techniques on finite clusters. The in-plane d.c. resistivity, $\rho_{ab}$, is also…
We calculate the density of states $N$ and the the thermal conductivity $\kappa $ in layered superconductors for rotating in-plane magnetic field by using approximate analytical expressions for Abrikosov's vortex lattice state. For a gap…