Related papers: EPR study of superconductors
Motivated by the iron-based superconductors, we develop a self-consistent electronic theory for the itinerant spin excitations in the regime of coexistence of the antiferromagnetic stripe order with wavevector ${\bf Q}_{1} = (\pi,0)$ and…
We present three designs for planar superconducting microwave resonators for electron spin resonance (ESR) experiments. We implement finite element simulations to calculate the resonance frequency and quality factors as well as the…
Gallium oxide (b-Ga2O3) is a wide-bandgap compound semiconductor with a bandgap of ~ 4.9 eV that is currently considered promising for a wide range of applications ranging from transparent conducting electrodes to UV optoelectronic devices…
Films of metal-insulator nanogranular composites M$_x$D$_{100-x}$ with different composition and percentage of metal and dielectric phases (M = Fe, Co, CoFeB; D = Al$_2$O$_3$, SiO$_2$, LiNbO$_3$; x $\approx$ 15-70 at.%) are investigated by…
In a recent article, Kim and Overhauser [Phys. Rev. B 47, 8025 (1993)] have found fault with the theory of impure superconductors by Abrikosov and Gor'kov and have proposed an alternative formalism based on Green's functions which are not…
A combined experimental/theoretical study of the EPR in irradiated $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ is presented. Four EPR spectra, two $S=1/2$ and two $S=1$, are observed after high-energy proton or electron irradiation. One of the S=1/2 spectra (EPR1)…
The low energy band structure of the FeAs based superconductors is fitted by a tight binding model with two Fe ions per unit cell and two degenerate orbitals per Fe ion. Based on this, superconductivity with extended s-wave pairing symmetry…
Electron pairing along with phase coherence generates superconductivity below the critical temperature ($T_c$). In underdoped high-$T_c$ cuprates, these two quantum phenomena may occur at separate temperatures, which was lately confirmed in…
The ground state of K$_{0.8+x}$Fe$_{1.6+y}$Se$_2$ and other iron-based selenide superconductors are doped antiferromagnetic semiconductors. There are well defined iron local moments whose energies are separated from those of conduction…
Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy interrogates unpaired electron spins in solids and liquids to reveal local structure and dynamics; for example, EPR has elucidated parts of the structure of protein complexes that have…
Topological superconductors are essential elements of the periodic table of topological quantum matter. However, the relevant odd-parity spin-triplet superconductors are rare. We report high-resolution measurements of the complex electrical…
Recently it was proposed that the orbital ordering of $\pi_{x,y}^*$ molecular orbitals in the superoxide CsO$_2$ compound leads to the formation of spin-1/2 chains below the structural phase transition occuring at $T_{\rm{s1}}=61$~K on…
A dirty BCS superconductor with magnetic impurities is studied. Asymptotic solution of the thermodynamics of such superconductor with spin $1/2$ and $7/2$ magnetic impurities, is found. To this end, the system's free energy $f(H, \beta)$ is…
The influence of magnetic (S=1) and nonmagnetic (S=0) impurities on the spin dynamics of an optimally doped high temperature superconductor is compared in two samples with almost identical superconducting transition temperatures:…
We study the physics of dilute magnetic impurities in a two-dimensional altermagnetic metal. For the single impurity case, although the spin degeneracy is broken in an altermagnetic metal, we show that the antiferromagnetic Kondo coupling…
We perform self-consistent studies of two-dimensional (2D) $s$-wave topological superconductivity (TSC) with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman field by solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. In particular, we examine the effects of…
The attenuation of ultrasound (the geometric resonance) in an intermediate state of the type I superconductors at kaN >> 1 is researched. The oscillating dependence of ultrasound attenuation, which has an amplitude modulation as a result of…
In this paper we propose that electron spin resonance (ESR) measurements enable us to detect the long-range spin nematic order. We show that the frequency of the paramagnetic resonance peak in the ESR spectrum is shifted by the…
In conventional superconductors, the interaction that pairs the electrons to form the superconducting state is mediated by lattice vibrations (phonons). In high-transition temperature (high-Tc) copper oxides, it is generally believed that…
The electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) parameters ($g$ factors $g_{i}$ and the hyperfine structure constants ${{A}}_{{i}}$, ${i} = {x}, {y}, {z}$) are interpreted by using the perturbation formulae for a $3{d}^{9}$ ion in rhombically…