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Single crystals of the layered organic type II superconductor, $\kappa$-(BEDT-TTF)$_{2}$Cu(NCS)$_{2}$, have been studied in magnetic fields of up to 33 T and at temperatures between 0.5 K and 11 K using a compact differential susceptometer.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Singleton , J. A. Symington , M. -S. Nam , A. Ardavan , M. Kurmoo , P. Day

We theoretically investigate superconductivity under a spin-split band structure owing to a collinear-type antiferromagnetic order in quasi-two-dimensional organic compounds $\kappa$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2X$. We find that the magnetic order can…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-28 Shuntaro Sumita , Makoto Naka , Hitoshi Seo

We present a theoretical study of the influence of the nuclear ferromagnetism on superconductivity in the presence of the electron-nuclear spin interaction. It is demonstrated that in some metals, e.g. Rh, W, the BCS condensate imbedded in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Dyugaev , I. D. Vagner , P. Wyder

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…

We demonstrate that the vortex state in the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) phase may be very different depending on the field orientation relative to the crystalline axes. We calculate numerically the upper critical field near the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-11 V. H. Dao , D. Denisov , A. Buzdin , J. P. Brison

Paired state of nonstandard quasiparticles is analyzed in detail in two model situations. Namely, we consider the Cooper-pair bound state and the condensed phase of an almost localized Fermi liquid (ALFL) composed of quasiparticles in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-01-28 Jan Kaczmarczyk , Jozef Spalek

We study the effect of a parallel magnetic field in a thin and small superconductor. The field suppresses superconductivity through Zeeman coupling while stabilizes the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state at high fields before…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-21 Tom Kim , Chih-Chun Chien , Shi-Zeng Lin

The $d$-wave superconductor $\mathrm{CeCoIn_5}$ has been proposed as a strong candidate for supporting the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state near the low-temperature boundary of its upper critical field. Neutron diffraction,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-02 Shi-Zeng Lin , Duk Y. Kim , Eric D. Bauer , Filip Ronning , J. D. Thompson , Roman Movshovich

We discuss a detailed phase diagram and other microscopic characteristics on the applied magnetic field - temperature (H_a-T) plane for a simple model of correlated fluid represented by a two-dimensional (2D) gas of heavy quasiparticles…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-09-09 Jan Kaczmarczyk , Jozef Spalek

Incommensurate antiferromangetic (AFM) order in the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) superconductor is investigated on the basis of the Ginzburg-Landau theory. We formulate the two component Ginzburg-Landau model to discuss two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 Youichi Yanase , Manfred Sigrist

We present a Hartree-Fock study that incorporates the effects of Landau level mixing and screening due to filled levels into the computation of energies and states of quasiparticles in quantum Hall ferromagnets. We use it to construct a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Mihalek , H. A. Fertig

The polarization and density modulation associated with antiferroelectric ordering is studied experimentally as a function of temperature in two ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals, the prototypical single compound (DIO) and a commercial…

We propose a new scheme for realizing Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) Cooper pairing states within flat bands, in contrast to the conventional paradigm such as the Zeeman effect. Central to our scheme is the concept of ``quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-23 Zi-Ting Sun , Ruo-Peng Yu , Shuai A. Chen , Jin-Xin Hu , K. T. Law

Motivated by recent NMR data suggesting the presence of a Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) vortex lattice in magnetic fields perpendicular to the superconducting plane in the heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn5, we examine here the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Ryusuke Ikeda

We report $^{115}$In nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements of the heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn$_5$ in the vicinity of the superconducting critical field $H_{c2}$ for a magnetic field applied perpendicular to the $\hat…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 V. F. Mitrovic , M. Horvatic , C. Berthier , G. Knebel , G. Lapertot , J. Flouquet

Unconventional superconductivity under strong Zeeman fields--particularly beyond the Pauli paramagnetic limit--remains a central challenge in condensed matter physics. The exotic Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state, in particular,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-26 Xing-Zhou Qu , Dai-Wei Qu , Qiaoyi Li , Wei Li , Gang Su

Increasing the spin imbalance in superconductors can spatially modulate the gap by forming Cooper pairs with finite momentum. For large imbalances compared to the Fermi energy, the inhomogeneous FFLO superconductor ultimately becomes a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-10 Francesco Piazza , Wilhelm Zwerger , Philipp Strack

We report specific heat measurements of the heavy fermion superconductor CeCoIn5 in the vicinity of the superconducting critical field H_{c2}, with magnetic field in the [110], [100], and [001] directions, and at temperatures down to 50 mK.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Bianchi , R. Movshovich , C. Capan , A. Lacerda , P. G. Pagliuso , J. L. Sarrao

Time reversal symmetry breaking in superconductors, resulting from external magnetic fields or spontaneous magnetization, often leads to unconventional superconducting properties. In this way, a conventional Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov…

We derive a generalized Ginzburg-Landau (GL) functional near the tricritical point in the (T,H)-phase diagram for the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) superconducting state, in 1,2, and 3 dimensions. We find that the transition from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 A. I. Buzdin , H. Kachkachi