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Odd-frequency superconductivity, originally proposed by Berezinskii in 1974, is an exotic phase of matter in which Cooper pairing between electrons is entirely dynamical in nature. The pair potential is an odd function of frequency, leading…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-09 Shu-Ping Lee , Roman M. Lutchyn , Joseph Maciejko

We show that vertex corrections to Migdal's theorem in general induce an odd-frequency spin-triplet superconducting order parameter, which coexists with its more commonly known even-frequency spin-singlet counterpart. Fully self-consistent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-08 Fabian Schrodi , Alex Aperis , Peter M. Oppeneer

We study the unconventional superconducting correlations caused by a single isolated magnetic impurity in a conventional s-wave superconductor. Due to the local breaking of time-reversal symmetry, the impurity induces unconventional…

We investigate odd-frequency superconducting correlations in normal-superconductor (NS) and short superconductor-normal-superconductor (SNS) junctions with the S region described by the Kitaev model of spinless fermions in one dimension. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-26 Athanasios Tsintzis , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Jorge Cayao

The proximity induced pair potential in a topological insulator-superconductor hybrid features an interesting superposition of a conventional spin-singlet component from the superconductor and a spin-triplet one induced by the surface state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-24 Pablo Burset , Bo Lu , Grigory Tkachov , Yukio Tanaka , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz , Bjoern Trauzettel

We study the emergence of odd-frequency superconducting pairing in UPt$_3$. Starting from a tight-binding model accounting for the nonsymmorphic crystal symmetry of UPt$_3$ and assuming an order parameter in the $E_{2u}$ representation, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-12 Christopher Triola , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We study superconductivity in spin-orbit-coupled systems in the vicinity of inversion symmetry breaking. We find that due to the presence of spin-orbit coupling, fluctuations of the incipient parity-breaking order generate an attractive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-18 Vladyslav Kozii , Liang Fu

Since the first theoretical proposal by Berezinskii, an odd-frequency superconductivity has encountered the fundamental problems on its thermodynamic stability and rigidity of a homogenous state accompanied by unphysical Meissner effect.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-20 Hiroaki Kusunose , Yuki Fuseya , Kazumasa Miyake

We study the induced odd-frequency pairing states in ballistic normal metal/superconductor (N/S) junctions where a superconductor has even-frequency symmetry in the bulk and a normal metal layer has an arbitrary length. Using the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Tanaka , Y. Tanuma , A. A. Golubov

Using a simple theoretical model, we demonstrate the emergence of odd-frequency pair amplitudes in conventional Josephson junctions both in the absence of a voltage (DC effect) and in the presence of a finite voltage (AC effect). In both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-04-20 Alexander V. Balatsky , Sergey S. Pershoguba , Christopher Triola

We consider the proximity effect in a Topological Insulator sandwiched between two conventional superconductors, by comparing s-wave spin singlet superconducting pairing correlations and odd-parity triplet pairing correlations with zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Tagliacozzo , P. Lucignano , F. Tafuri

We consider normal-superconductor (NS) and superconductor-normal-superconductor (SNS) junctions based on one-dimensional nanowires with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and proximity-induced $s$-wave spin-singlet superconductivity and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-28 Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

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 growing body of literature suggests that odd-frequency superconducting pair amplitudes can be generated in normal metal-superconductor junctions. The emergence of odd-frequency pairing in these systems is often attributed to the breaking…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-22 Christopher Triola , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Odd-frequency superconductivity describes a class of superconducting states where the superconducting gap is an odd function in relative time and Matsubara frequency. We present a group theoretical analysis based on the linearized gap…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-17 R. Matthias Geilhufe , Alexander V. Balatsky

Odd-frequency superconductivity represents a truly unconventional ordered state which, in contrast to conventional superconductivity, exhibits pair correlations which are odd in relative time and, hence, inherently dynamical. In this review…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-14 Jorge Cayao , Christopher Triola , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

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 obtain the general conditions for the emergence of odd-frequency superconducting pairing in a two-dimensional (2D) electronic system proximity-coupled to a superconductor, making minimal assumptions about both the 2D system and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-08 Christopher Triola , Driss M. Badiane , Alexander V. Balatsky , E. Rossi

We point out that essentially all multi-band superconductors have an odd-frequency pairing component, as follows from a general symmetry analysis of even- and odd-frequency pairing states. We show that odd-frequency superconducting pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-05-22 Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Alexander V. Balatsky

A possibility of the odd-frequency pairing in the strong-coupling electron-phonon systems is discussed. Using the Holstein-Hubbard model, we demonstrate that the anomalously soft Einstein mode with the frequency $\omega_{\rm…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-20 Hiroaki Kusunose , Yuki Fuseya , Kazumasa Miyake