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In superconductors, the motion of vortices introduces unwanted dissipation that is disruptive to applications. Fortunately, material defects can immobilize vortices, acting as vortex pinning centers, which engenders dramatic improvements in…

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Topological quantum materials hold great promise for future technological applications. Their unique electronic properties, such as protected surface states and exotic quasiparticles, offer opportunities for designing novel electronic…

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Quantum conductors attached to metallic reservoirs have been demonstrated to overcome the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR), a trade-off relation between the amount of dissipation and the absence of charge and heat current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 David Christian Ohnmacht , Juan Carlos Cuevas , Wolfgang Belzig , Rosa López , Jong Soo Lim , Kun Woo Kim

Type II superconductors can trap a transient magnetic field and become "cryomagnets" that are very useful for applications. During this process, flux jumps i.e. sudden jumps of the total magnetization occur and hinder the properties of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-07 Jean-Guy Caputo , Nathan Rouxelin

A theoretical study of dynamics of small thermal and electromagnetic perturbations in type-II superconductors in the flux creep regime with a nonlinear current-voltage characteristics is performed. For this purpose, the space-time evolution…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-13 N. A. Taylanov

Considering a system composed of two different thermoelectric modules electrically and thermally connected in parallel, we demonstrate that the inhomogeneities of the thermoelectric properties of the materials may cause the appearance of an…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-01-06 Y. Apertet , H. Ouerdane , C. Goupil , Ph. Lecoeur

A theory for the phenomena observed in Copper-Oxide based high temperature superconducting materials derives an elusive time-reversal and rotational symmetry breaking order parameter for the observed pseudogap phase ending at a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 C. M. Varma

Tunneling spectroscopy played a central role in the experimental verification of the microscopic theory of superconductivity in the classical superconductors. Initial attempts to apply the same approach to high-temperature superconductors…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-29 Oystein Fischer , Martin Kugler , Ivan Maggio-Aprile , Christophe Berthod , Christoph Renner

Thermal conductivity measurements in the superconducting state of the ferromagnet UCoGe were performed at very low temperatures and under magnetic field on samples of different qualities and with the heat current along the three…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Taupin , L. Howald , D. Aoki , J. -P. Brison

The usually negligibly small thermoelectric effects in superconducting heterostructures can be boosted dramatically due to the simultaneous effect of spin splitting and spin filtering. Building on an idea of our earlier work [Phys. Rev.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-20 P. Machon , M. Eschrig , W. Belzig

The pairing and superfluid phenomena in a two-component ultracold atomic Fermi gas is an analogue of Cooper pairing and superconductivity in an electron system, in particular, the high $T_c$ superconductors. Owing to the various tunable…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-09-30 Qijin Chen , Jibiao Wang

Magnetothermal instabilities are one of the peculiar phenomena of interest in conventional type-II, as well as in high-$T_c$ superconductors. In the present paper we attempt to analyze the nature and origin of the magnetothermal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-11-08 N. A. Taylanov

It is argued that a superconducting instability appears in the electronic states on the surface of a topological insulator due purely to electromagnetic interactions. The discussion of this instability is based on the analysis of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-03-29 Alberto Cortijo

The candidate topological superconductor UTe$_2$ exhibits a complex phase diagram with multiple superconducting states, yet the nature of their coexistence has remained a central mystery. In particular, the apparent intersection of two…

The high temperature superconductivity in cuprate materials1 has puzzled scientists over twenty years. We must find a new way to understand superconductivity. It is found the spin-charge correlation may dominate the superconductivity2, and…

General Physics · Physics 2009-04-11 Tian De Cao

The tremendous efforts to unveil high temperature superconductivity (HTSC) have been devoted to the search of the mechanism underlying Cooper pairs which, however, remains a mysterious subject of vigorous debate, let alone many other…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-06-18 Wei Ruan

We report the discovery of a new mechanism of spontaneous generation of a magnetic flux in a superconductor cooled through $T_c$. The sign of the spontaneous flux changes randomly from one cooldown to the next, and follows a Gaussian…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Maniv , E. Polturak , G. Koren , Y. Bliokh , B. Biehler , B-U Runge , P. Leiderer , B. Ya. Shapiro , I. Shapiro

We argue that parametrically strong enhancement of a thermoelectric current can be observed in conventional superconductors doped by magnetic impurities. This effect is caused by violation of the symmetry between electron-like and hole-like…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-10-05 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin , Leonid S. Kuzmin

A pivotal step toward understanding unconventional superconductors would be to decipher how superconductivity emerges from the unusual normal state upon cooling. In the cuprates, traces of superconducting pairing appear above the…

We theoretically consider the spin Seebeck effect, the charge Seebeck coefficient, and the thermoelectric figure of merit in superconducting hybrid structures including either magnetic textures or intrinsic spin-orbit coupling. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Marianne Etzelmüller Bathen , Jacob Linder