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A conventional superconducting state may be replaced by another dissipationless state hosting Cooper pairs with a finite momentum, leaving thermodynamic footprints for such a phase transition. Recently, a novel type of finite momentum…

The study of multi-band superconductivity is relevant for a variety of systems, from ultra cold atoms with population imbalance to particle physics, and condensed matter. As a consequence, this problem has been widely investigated bringing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-17 Mucio A. Continentino , Igor T. Padilha , Heron Caldas

We show that the current thermodynamic measurements in the superconducting phase of $\mathrm{U}\mathrm{Ru}_2\mathrm{Si}_2$ are compatible with two distinct singlet chiral paired states $k_z(k_x \pm i k_y)$ and $(k_x \pm i k_y)^2$. Despite…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-12-13 Pallab Goswami , Luis Balicas

We study imbalanced fermionic superfluids in an array of one-dimensional tubes at the incipient dimensional crossover regime, wherein particles can tunnel between neighboring tubes. In addition to single-particle tunneling (ST), we consider…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-31 Kuei Sun , C. J. Bolech

In this work, we study superconducting moir\'e homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides where the Ising spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is much larger than the moir\'e bandwidth. We call such noncentrosymmetric superconductors, moir\'e Ising…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-11 Ying-Ming Xie , K. T. Law

Superdiffusion is an anomalous transport behavior. Recently, a new mechanism, termed the ``nodal mechanism," has been proposed to induce superdiffusion in quantum models. However, existing realizations of the nodal mechanism have so far…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Shaofeng Huang , Yu-Peng Wang , Jie Ren , Chen Fang

We demonstrate that the Fulde-Ferrell (FF) phase can be induced uniquely by the orbital effect in a cylindrical metallic nanowire. In the external magnetic field the two-fold degeneracy with respect to the orbital quantum number $m$ is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-12 Paweł Wójcik , Michał Zegrodnik , Józef Spałek

Superconductivity of a single two-dimensional Dirac fermion offers a natural route to topological superconductivity. While usually considered extrinsic -- arising from proximity to a conventional superconductor -- we investigate when a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-09 Omid Tavakol , Thomas Scaffidi

Fulde, Ferrell, Larkin, and Ovchinnikov (FFLO) predicted inhomogeneous superconducting and superfluid ground states, spontaneously breaking translation symmetries. In this Letter, we demonstrate that the transition from the FFLO to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-14 Mats Barkman , Albert Samoilenka , Egor Babaev

Chiral topological semimetals host multifold degenerate band crossing points under the protection of crystalline symmetries. In this paper, we suggest that the recently discovered chiral topological semimetals in space group 198, parts of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yingyi Huang , Shao-Kai Jian

We analyze possible nodal superconducting phases that emerge from a doped nodal-line semimetal. We show that nodal-line superconducting phases are favored by interactions mediated by short-range ferromagnetic fluctuations or Hund's…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-08 Zhenfei Wu , Yuxuan Wang

Experimental evidence suggests that the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state may be realized in the unconventional, heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn$_5$. We present a self-consistent calculation of the field versus temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. B. Vorontsov , J. A. Sauls , M. J. Graf

We reveal a class of three-dimensional $d$-orbital topological materials in the antifluorite Cu$_2$S family. Derived from the unique properties of low-energy $t_{2g}$ states, their phases are solely determined by the sign of spin-orbit…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-24 Xian-Lei Sheng , Zhi-Ming Yu , Rui Yu , Hongming Weng , Shengyuan A. Yang

Hypothetical topologically nontrivial superconducting state of two-dimensional electron system is discussed in connection with the problem of pairing with large center-of-mass pair momentum under predominant repulsive screened Coulomb…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-09-06 V. I. Belyavsky , V. V. Kapaev , Yu. V. Kopaev

We study the conductance fluctuation in topological semimetals. Through statistic distribution of energy levels of topological semimetals, we determine the dominant parameters of universal conductance fluctuation (UCF), i.e., the number of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-10-25 Yayun Hu , Haiwen Liu , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

The Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) phase, a superconducting state with non-zero total momentum Cooper pairs in a strong magnetic field, was predicted more than 50 years ago and now becomes an important concept in many branches of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-03-29 Zhen Zheng , Ming Gong , Yichao Zhang , Xubo Zou , Chuanwei Zhang , Guangcan Guo

The Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state can be found in layered d-wave superconductors such as high $T_c$ cuprates and $\kappa$-(ET)$_2$ salts in a planar magnetic field. We show the superconducting order parameter forms two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Won , K. Maki

The imbalanced superfluid state of spin-1/2 fermions with s-wave pairing is numerically studied by solving the Bogoliubov-de-Gennes equation at zero temperature in an annular disk geometry with narrow radial width. Two distinct types of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Fei Ye , Yan Chen , Z. D. Wang , F. C. Zhang

By analyzing vortex lattices, re-entrant Cooper pairing and Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) states in a single theoretical framework we explore how vortices and spin textures join to protect superconductivity against large magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Predrag Nikolic

Atoms with different internal states can exhibit different responses to an artificial magnetic field. An atomic gas mixture of two different components can therefore be interpreted as a mixture of two atomic gases carrying different…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-05-12 A. Levent Subaşı , Nader Ghazanfari