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The trigonal Weyl semimetal PtBi$_2$ presents an intriguing superconducting phase, previously reported to be confined to its topological Fermi arcs within a certain temperature range. This observation highlights the importance of a thorough…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-07 Santiago Palumbo , Pablo S. Cornaglia , Jorge I. Facio

The study of the iron-based superconductor, FeSe, has resulted in various topics, such as the interplay among superconductivity, nematicity, and magnetism, Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer Bose-Einstein-condensation (BCS-BEC) crossover, and…

We perform the variational Monte Carlo calculation for recently proposed chiral superconducting states driven by strong Coulomb interactions. We compare the resulting energetics of these electronic phases for the electron dispersion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-18 Minho Luke Kim , Abigail Timmel , Xiao-Gang Wen

A defining property of metals is the existence of a Fermi surface: for two dimensions, a continuous contour in momentum space which separates occupied from unoccupied states. In this paper, I discuss angle resolved photoemission data on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 M. R. Norman

This article is a review o over theory of superconductivity, which is constructed for systems with two overlapping energy bands at the Fermi surface and with arbitrary charge carrier density.There is taken into account all possible kinds of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. Palistrant

Very recently the topological Weyl semimetal (WSM) state was predicted in the noncentrosymmetric compounds TaAs, TaP, NbAs, and NbP and soon led to photoemission and transport experiments to verify the presumed topological properties such…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-22 Yan Sun , Shu-Chun Wu , Binghai Yan

We provide a quasi-one-dimensional model which can support a pair-density-wave (PDW) state, in which the superconducting (SC) order parameter modulates periodically in space, with gapless Bogoliubov quasiparticle excitations. The model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-07 Rodrigo Soto-Garrido , Gil Young Cho , Eduardo Fradkin

Much interest in the superconducting proximity effect in three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs) has been driven by the potential to induce Majorana bound states at the interface. Most candidate materials for 3D TI, however, are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-12-10 Kyungmin Lee , Abolhassan Vaezi , Mark H. Fischer , Eun-Ah Kim

Unconventional superconductivity has been predicted to arise in the topologically non-trivial Fermi surface of doped inversion symmetric Weyl semimetals (WSM). In particular, Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) and nodal BCS states are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Youngseok Kim , Moon Jip Park , Matthew J. Gilbert

Weyl semimetals are a new paradigmatic topological phase of matter featuring a gapless spectrum. One of its most distinctive features is the presence of Fermi arc surface states. Here, we report on atomistic simulations of the dc…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Jose Chesta Lopez , Luis E. F. Foa Torres , Alvaro S. Nunez

Iron-based superconductors display a large degree of variability in electronic structure at the Fermi surface, resulting in superconducting gap structures,$T_c$'s, and other properties that vary considerably from family to family. Recently…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-31 Siddhant Panda , P. J. Hirschfeld

Layers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) combine the enhanced effects of correlations associated with the two-dimensional limit with electrostatic control over their phase transitions by means of an electric field. Several…

A Weyl semimetal with broken time-reversal symmetry has a minimum of two species of Weyl fermions, distinguished by their opposite chirality, in a pair of Weyl cones at opposite momenta $\pm K$ that are displaced in the direction of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-28 N. Bovenzi , M. Breitkreiz , P. Baireuther , T. E. O'Brien , J. Tworzydlo , I. Adagideli , C. W. J. Beenakker

Smooth interfaces of topological systems are known to host massive surface states along with the topologically protected chiral one. We show that in Weyl semimetals these massive states, along with the chiral Fermi arc, strongly alter the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Xin Lu , Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , Mark O. Goerbig

As a half-metal is spin-polarized at its Fermi level by definition, it was conventionally thought to have little proximity effect to an s-wave superconductor. Here we show that, with interface spin-orbit coupling, $p_x +ip_y$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-17 Suk Bum Chung , Hai-Jun Zhang , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

One of the most striking signatures of Weyl fermions is their surface Fermi arcs. Less known is that Fermi arcs can also be localized at internal twin boundaries where two Weyl materials of opposite chirality meet. In this work, we derive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-29 Sahal Kaushik , Iñigo Robredo , Nitish Mathur , Leslie M. Schoop , Song Jin , Maia G. Vergniory , Jennifer Cano

Because the normal state of underdoped cuprate superconductors is an enigmatic Fermi-arc metal, it is valuable to analyze an exactly solvable model that exhibits both Fermi arcs and $d$-wave superconductivity. Here, we focus on a recently…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-03 Xianliang Zhou , Fei Yang , Miao Liu , Yin Shi , Sheng Meng

For noninteracting Weyl semimetals (WSMs), Fermi-arc surface states can arise when there exist gapless Weyl nodes in the bulk single-particle spectrum. However, in the presence of electronic correlations, it is not clear whether this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-27 Yu-Chin Tzeng , Min-Fong Yang

We study the emergence of topological superconductivity in a two-dimensional (2D) Weyl system, composed of stacked Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains. A previous analysis of the model showed that the addition of an attractive Hubbard…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-18 Peter Rosenberg , Efstratios Manousakis

Topological semimetals have recently attracted great attention due to prospective applications governed by their peculiar Fermi surfaces. Weyl semimetals host chiral fermions that manifest as pairs of non-degenerate massless Weyl points in…