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Axions, encompassing both QCD axions and axion-like particles, can generate loop-induced quadratic couplings to electromagnetic field strength tensors, resulting in oscillatory shifts of the fine-structure constant. Near a Kerr black hole,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-11 Zhaoyu Bai , Vitor Cardoso , Yifan Chen , Tuan Do , Aurélien Hees , Huangyu Xiao , Xiao Xue

The axion insulator exhibits a topological magnetoelectric effect characterized by an axion angle $\theta=\pi$, while the time-reversal-doubled axion insulator (T-DAXI) can be viewed as two copies of an axion insulator related by…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-03 Yue Xie , Haohao Sheng , Quansheng Wu , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang , Hongming Weng , Zhijun Wang

The axion is a well-motivated candidate for the inflaton, as the radiative corrections that spoil many single-field models are avoided by virtue of its shift symmetry. However, axions generically couple to gauge sectors. As the axion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-09 William DeRocco , Peter W. Graham , Saarik Kalia

The Josephson effects associated with quantum tunneling of Cooper pairs manifest as nonlinear relations between the superconductivity phase difference and the bias current and voltage. Many novel phenomena appear, such as Shapiro steps in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-04-21 Xiao Hu , Shi-Zeng Lin

We theoretically investigate the supercurrent-induced magnetization dynamics of a two-dimensional lattice of ferromagnetically ordered spins placed on a conventional superconductor with broken spatial inversion symmetry and strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Kjetil M. D. Hals

We investigate magnetic and superconducting properties of layered $f$-electron superlattices within the fluctuation exchange approximation (FLEX). We show that spin fluctuations, which are characterized by the maximum value of the spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-07-31 Yasuhiro Tada , Robert Peters

Altermagnetic (AM) fluctuations are a new class of collinear spin fluctuations whose role in mediating superconductivity faces a fundamental tension: their $\Gamma$-point peak favors intra-orbital spin-triplet pairing, while their spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-23 Chen Lu , Chuang Li , Chao Cao , Huiqiu Yuan , Fu-Chun Zhang , Lun-Hui Hu

Spin-fluctuation-mediated superconductivity is conventionally associated with d_{x^2-y^2} pairing. We show that a generalized model of antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations in three dimensions may also yield a state with formal ``s-wave''…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 R. J. Radtke , A. I. Liechtenstein , V. M. Yakovenko , S. Das Sarma

We propose a scenario to create topological superfluid in a periodically driven two-dimensional square optical lattice. We study the phase diagram of a spin-orbit coupled s-wave pairing superfluid in a periodically driven two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Guocai Liu , Ningning Hao , Shi-Liang Zhu , W. M. Liu

We discuss fluctuations near the second order phase transition where the free energy has an additional non-Hermitian term. The spectrum of the fluctuations changes when the odd-parity potential amplitude exceeds the critical value…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-10-11 N. M. Chtchelkatchev , A. A. Golubov , T. I. Baturina , V. M. Vinokur

The dynamics of magnetic moments consist of a precession around the magnetic field direction and a relaxation towards the field to minimize the energy. While the magnetic moment and the angular momentum are conventionally assumed to be…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-14 Ritwik Mondal , Levente Rózsa , Michael Farle , Peter M. Oppeneer , Ulrich Nowak , Mikhail Cherkasskii

In this work we consider the effect of an $R^2$ term on the kinetic misalignment axion theory. By using the slow-roll assumptions during inflation and the field equations, we construct an autonomous dynamical system for the kinetic axion,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-05 V. K. Oikonomou

The quantum critical Antiferromagnetic (AFM) fluctuation spectra measured by inelastic neutron scattering recently in two heavy fermion superconductors are used together with their other measured properties to calculate their D-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-15 Shinya Nishiyama , K. Miyake , C. M. Varma

We study the effective interactions between Dirac fermions on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator due to the proximity coupling to the magnetic fluctuations in a ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic insulator. Our results…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-29 Henning G. Hugdal , Stefan Rex , Flavio S. Nogueira , Asle Sudbø

In the recent work [Phys. Rev. D 91, 111702(R) (2015)], C. Hill concludes that the axion electromagnetic anomaly induces an oscillating electron electric dipole moment of frequency $m_a$ and strength $\sim 10^{-32}~e$ cm, in the limit $v/c…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-03 V. V. Flambaum , B. M. Roberts , Y. V. Stadnik

We study experimentally and theoretically, the reorganization of superconducting vortices driven by oscillatory forces near the plastic depinning transition. We show that the system can be taken to configurations that are tagged by the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-08-01 D. Pérez Daroca , G. Pasquini , G. S. Lozano , V. Bekeris

We study interacting classical magnetic and pseudoscalar fields in frames of the axion electrodynamics. A large scale pseudoscalar field can be the coherent superposition of axions or axion like particles. We consider the evolution of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-09 Maxim Dvornikov

We establish a new covariant phenomenological model, which describes an influence of pseudoscalar (axion) field on spins of test massive particles. The model includes general relativistic equations of particle motion and spin evolution in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-23 Alexander B. Balakin , Vladimir A. Popov

We study the behaviour of a superconductor in a weak static gravitational field for temperatures slightly greater than its transition temperature (fluctuation regime). Making use of the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations, we find a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-19 Giovanni Alberto Ummarino , Antonio Gallerati

We show that an unconventional superfluid triggered by spin-orbit coupling is realized for repulsively interacting quasi-one-dimensional fermions. A competition between spin-singlet and -triplet pairings occurs due to the breaking of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-02-21 Shun Uchino , Akiyuki Tokuno , Thierry Giamarchi