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Symmetry arguments based on the point group of a system and thermodynamic measurements are often combined to identify the order parameter in unconventional superconductors. However, lattice translations, which can induce additional momenta…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-08-20 Bastian Zinkl , Mark H. Fischer , Manfred Sigrist

The edge currents of two dimensional topological chiral superconductors with nonzero Cooper pair angular momentum---e.g., chiral $p$-, $d$-, and $f$-wave superconductivity---are studied. Bogoliubov-de Gennes and Ginzburg--Landau…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-12-23 Wen Huang , Edward Taylor , Catherine Kallin

We propose a chiral charge (electric toroidal monopole) as the hidden order parameter in URu$_{2}$Si$_{2}$, which satisfies all the symmetry conditions accumulated by many experimental and theoretical efforts since its discovery. By using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-23 Satoru Hayami , Hiroaki Kusunose

We analyze the symmetry and the nodal structure of the superconducting order parameter in a cubic ferromagnet, such as ZrZn$_2$. We demonstrate how the order parameter symmetry evolves when the electromagnetic interaction of the conduction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 K. V. Samokhin , M. B. Walker

We have measured the far infrared reflectance of the heavy fermion compound URu$_2$Si$_2$ through the phase transition at T$_{HO}$=17.5 K dubbed 'hidden order' with light polarized along both the a- and c-axes of the tetragonal structure.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-28 Jesse S. Hall , Travis Williams , Graeme Luke , Urmas Nagel , Taaniel Uleksin , Toomas Rõõm , Thomas Timusk

We have analyzed heat capacity and thermal conductivity measurements of Sr2RuO4 in the normal and superconducting state and come to the conclusion that an order parameter with nodal lines on the Fermi surface is required to account for the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-04-08 M. J. Graf , A. V. Balatsky

Sr$_{2}$RuO$_{4}$ (SRO) is the prime candidate for chiral $p$-wave superconductor with critical temperature $T_{c}(SRO)\sim$1.5 K. Chiral domains with opposite chiralities $p_{x}\pm ip_{y}$ were proposed, but yet to be confirmed. We measure…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-24 He Wang , Jiawei Luo , Weijian Lou , Jian Wei , J. E. Ortmann , Z. Q. Mao , Y. Liu

The topological properties in topological superconductors are usually characterized by the bulk Chern numbers, edge-state spectra, and Majorana zero modes. Whether they are equivalent or inequivalent is not well understood. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Xiao-Ping Liu , Yuan Zhou , Yi-Fei Wang , Chang-De Gong

We study the superconducting gap function of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$. By solving the linearized Eliashberg equation with a correlated pairing vertex extracted from a dynamical mean-field calculation we identify the dominant pairing channels. An…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-13 Stefan Käser , Hugo U. R. Strand , Nils Wentzell , Antoine Georges , Olivier Parcollet , Philipp Hansmann

More than two decades after the discovery of superconductivity in Sr$_2$RuO$_4$, it is still unclear whether the order parameter has a single component or two degenerate components. For any two-component scenario, application of uniaxial…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-27 Eli Mueller , Yusuke Iguchi , Christopher Watson , Clifford Hicks , Yoshiteru Maeno , Kathryn Moler

Sr2RuO4 is at present the best candidate for being a superconducting analogue of the triplet superfluidity in ^3He. This material is a good (albeit correlated) Fermi liquid in the normal state and an exotic superconductor below Tc. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 K. I. Wysokinski , G. Litak , J. F. Annett , B. L. Gyorffy

The correlations between stripe order, superconductivity, and crystal structure in La(2-x)Ba(x)CuO(4) single crystals have been studied by means of x-ray and neutron diffraction as well as static magnetization measurements. The derived…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Huecker , M. v. Zimmermann , G. D. Gu , Z. J. Xu , J. S. Wen , Guangyong Xu , H. J. Kang , A. Zheludev , J. M. Tranquada

Motivated by Sr2RuO4, we consider a chiral superconductor where the gap is strongly suppressed along certain momentum directions. We evaluate the thermal Hall conductivity in the gapless regime, i.e., at temperature small compared with the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-26 Sungkit Yip

We revealed that the superconducting transition temperature Tc of the multi-component superconductor Sr2RuO4 is enhanced to 3.3 K under in-plane uniaxial pressure that reduces the tetragonal crystal symmetry. This result suggests that new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-23 Haruka Taniguchi , Keigo Nishimura , Swee K. Goh , Shingo Yonezawa , Yoshiteru Maeno

The heavy fermion superconductor URu$_2$Si$_2$ is a candidate for chiral, time-reversal symmetry-breaking superconductivity with a nodal gap structure. Here, we microscopically visualized superconductivity and spatially inhomogeneous…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-16 Yusuke Iguchi , Irene P. Zhang , Eric D. Bauer , Filip Ronning , John R. Kirtley , Kathryn A. Moler

Motivated by the geometric character of spin Hall conductance, the topological invariants of generic superconductivity are discussed based on the Bogoliuvov-de Gennes equation on lattices. They are given by the Chern numbers of degenerate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 Y. Hatsugai , S. Ryu , M. Kohmoto

We study Josephson current between s-wave/spin-triplet superconductor junctions by taking into account details of band structures in Sr$_{2}$RuO$_{4}$ such as three conduction bands, spin-orbit interaction in the bulk and that at the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-31 Kohei Kawai , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka , Yasuhiro Asano , A. A. Golubov , Satoshi Kashiwaya

We investigate the bulk orbital angular momentum (AM) in a two-dimensional hole-doped topological superconductor (SC) which is composed of a hole-doped semiconductor thin film, a magnetic insulator, and an $s$-wave SC and is characterized…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-05-26 Atsuo Shitade , Yuki Nagai

We consider a Ginzburg-Landau model for superconductivity with a Chern-Simons term added. The flow diagram contains two charged fixed points corresponding to the tricritical and infrared stable fixed points. The topological coupling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 C. de Calan , A. P. C. Malbouisson , F. S. Nogueira , N. F. Svaiter

Recently, Rourke et al. reported point-contact spectroscopy results on the heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn$_5$ [1]. They obtained conductance spectra on the c-axis surfaces of CeCoIn$_5$ single crystals. Their major claims are two-fold:…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Wan Kyu Park , Laura H. Greene