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We employed the self-consistent method on a two-orbital type-II time-reversal-symmetric Weyl semimetal, revealing a hybrid pairing of singlet $s$-wave and triplet $p$-wave. We present a detailed analysis of the normal-state electronic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-02 Junkang Huang , Z. D. Wang , Tao Zhou

We propose that doped Weyl semimetals with four Weyl points are natural candidates to realize higher-order topological superconductors, which exhibit a fully gapped bulk while the surface hosts robust gapless chiral hinge states. We show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-13 Ammar Jahin , Apoorv Tiwari , Yuxuan Wang

Topological insulators are characterized by specially protected conduction on their outer boundaries. We show that the protected edge conduction exhibited by 2-D topological insulators (and also Chern insulators) is independent of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Quansheng Wu , Liang Du , Vincent E. Sacksteder

Materials realization of chiral topological superconductivity is a crucial condition for observing and manipulating Majorana fermions in condensed matter physics. Here we develop a tight-binding description of Pb$_3$Bi/Ge(111), identified…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-30 Shuwen Sun , Wei Qin , Leiqiang Li , Zhenyu Zhang

We study the emergence of multiband superconductivity with $s$- and $d-$wave symmetry on the background of spin density wave (SDW). We show that the SDW coherence factors renormalize the momentum dependence of the superconducting (SC) gap,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 J. -P. Ismer , Ilya Eremin , Enrico Rossi , Dirk K. Morr , G. Blumberg

Topological media are systems whose properties are protected by topology and thus are robust to deformations of the system. In topological insulators and superconductors the bulk-surface and bulk-vortex correspondence gives rise to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-28 G. E. Volovik

We uncover the properties of complex tensor (d-wave) superconducting order in three-dimensional Rarita-Schwinger-Weyl semimetals that host pseudospin-3/2 fermions at a fourfold linear band crossing point. Although the general theory of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-13 Julia M. Link , Igor Boettcher , Igor F. Herbut

We investigate topological Cooper pairing, including gapless Weyl and fully gapped class DIII superconductivity, in a three-dimensional doped Luttinger semimetal. The latter describes effective spin-3/2 carriers near a quadratic band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-14 Bitan Roy , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Matthew S. Foster , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

Topological nodal superconductors (SCs) have attracted considerable interest due to their gapless bulk excitations and exotic surface states. In this paper, by establishing a general framework of the effective theory for multi-orbital SCs,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-17 Dao-He Ma , Jin An

The quest for materials that simultaneously exhibit superconductivity and nontrivial topology has drawn significant attention in recent years, driven by their potential to host exotic quantum states. Their unique coexistence often leads to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-16 Arafat Rahman , Alamgir Kabir , Tareq Mahmud

We compute the topological phase diagram of 2D tetragonal superconductors for the only possible nodeless pairing channels compatible with that crystal symmetry. Subject to a Zeeman field and spin-orbit coupling, we demonstrate that these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-01-24 Santiago Varona , Laura Ortiz , Oscar Viyuela , Miguel Angel Martin-Delgado

In contrast to conventional Weyl semimetals in achiral crystals, chiral topological semimetals in chiral crystals exhibit Weyl nodes at time-reversal-invariant momenta. A Fermi surface spin texture with parallel spin-momentum locking in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-12 Yingyi Huang

Superconductors (SCs) with nontrivial topological band structures in the normal state have been discovered recently in bulk materials. When such SCs are made into thin films, quantum tunneling and Cooper pairing take place between the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-19 Xi Luo , Yu-Ge Chen , Ziqiang Wang , Yue Yu

We find a mixed chirality $d$-wave superconducting state in the coexistence region between antiferromagnetism and interaction-driven superconductivity in lightly doped honeycomb materials. This state has a topological chiral $d+id$-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-04 A. M. Black-Schaffer , K. Le Hur

Conventional BCS superconductors are expected to exhibit a conductivity with vanishing dissipation with decreasing temperature. While bulk physical properties measurements indicate PdPb$_{2}$ is a conventional superconductor with a $T_c$ of…

The nodal $d_{x^2-y^2}$ superconducting gap is a hallmark of the cuprate high T$_c$ superconductors. Surprisingly recent angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of deeply underdoped cuprates revealed a nodeless energy gap which is adhered…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 Yuan-Ming Lu , Tao Xiang , Dung-Hai Lee

We found superconductivity in CaSb$_2$ with the transition temperature of 1.7 K by means of electrical-resistivity, magnetic-susceptibility, and specific-heat measurements. This material crystallizes in a nonsymmorphic structure and is…

We point out that unidirectional bond-centered charge-density-wave states in cuprates involve electronic order in both s- and d-wave channels, with non-local Coulomb repulsion suppressing the s-wave component. The resulting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-03-07 Matthias Vojta , Oliver Rösch

Topological superconductors offer a fertile ground for realizing Majorana zero modes -- topologically protected, zero-energy quasiparticles that are resilient to local perturbations and hold great promise for fault-tolerant quantum…

In non-magnetic bulk materials, inversion symmetry protects the spin degeneracy. If the bulk crystal structure lacks a centre of inversion, however, spin-orbit interactions lift the spin degeneracy, leading to a Rashba metal whose Fermi…