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Realization of an elemental solid-state quasicrystal has remained a distant dream so far in spite of extensive work in this direction for almost two decades. Here, we report the discovery of quasiperiodic ordering in a thick layer of…

Physical properties in the normal and superconducting (SC) state are investigated with $^{125}$Te-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements in a quasicrystal $\mathrm{(Ta_{0.95}Cu_{0.05})_{1.6}Te}$, which was a recently discovered…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-07 H. Matsudaira , S. Kitagawa , K. Ishida , Y. Tokumoto , K. Tomiyama , K. Edagawa

We report on the first investigation of the quasiparticle local density of states and superconducting gap in the iron chalcogenide superconductor Fe$_{1+\delta}$Se$_{1-x}$Te$_{x}$ ($T_{\mathrm{c}} \sim 14$ K). The surface of a cleaved…

The effects of long-range anisotropic elastic deformations on electronic structure in superconductors are analyzed within the framework of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. Cases of twin boundaries and isolated defects are considered as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Jian-Xin Zhu , K. H. Ahn , Z. Nussinov , T. Lookman , A. V. Balatsky , A. R. Bishop

Using a renormalization group approach, we determine the phase diagram of an extended quasi-one-dimensional electron gas model that includes interchain hopping, nesting deviations and both intrachain and interchain repulsive interactions.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. C. Nickel , R. Duprat , C. Bourbonnais , N. Dupuis

Our understanding of physical properties of quasicrystals owes a great deal to studies of tight-binding models constructed on quasiperiodic tilings. Among the large number of possible quasiperiodic structures, two dimensional tilings are of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-01 Anuradha Jagannathan , Michel Duneau

The Higgs amplitude mode of the order parameter of an ultracold confined Fermi gas in the BCS regime after a quench of the coupling constant is analyzed theoretically. Characteristic features are a damped oscillation which at a certain…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-12-09 S. Hannibal , P. Kettmann , M. D. Croitoru , A. V. Vagov , V. M. Axt , T. Kuhn

Superconductivity of iron chalocogenides is strongly enhanced under applied pressure yet its underlying pairing mechanism remains elusive. Here, we present a quantum oscillations study up to 45 T in the high-$T_c$ phase of tetragonal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-18 Z. Zajicek , P. Reiss , D. Graf , J. C. A. Prentice , Y. Sadki , A. A. Haghighirad , A. I. Coldea

We theoretically investigate the appearance of spatially modulated superconducting states in mesoscopic superconducting thin-wall cylinders in a magnetic field at low temperatures. Quantization of the electron motion around the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-12 K. Aoyama , R. Beaird , D. E. Sheehy , I. Vekhter

We present a strong coupling dynamical theory of the superconducting transition in a metal near a QCP towards $Q = 0$ nematic order. We use a fermion-boson model, in which we treat the ratio of effective boson-fermion coupling and the Fermi…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-22 Avraham Klein , Andrey Chubukov

Spin ordering and its effect on low energy quasiparticles in a p-wave superconducting liquid are investigated. We show that there is a new 2D p-wave superconducting liquid where the ground state is rotation invariant. In quantum spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Fei Zhou

We study the fate of superconductivity in the vicinity of a class of metallic quantum critical points obtained by coupling a Fermi surface to a critical boson. In such systems there is a competition between the enhanced pairing tendency due…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-11 Srinivas Raghu , Gonzalo Torroba , Huajia Wang

Within the framework of the kinetic energy driven superconductivity, we study the electronic structure of cuprate superconductors. It is shown that the spectral weight of the electron spectrum in the antinodal point of the Brillouin zone…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Huaiming Guo , Shiping Feng

Due to the absence of periodic length scale, electronic states and their topological properties in quasicrystals have been barely understood. Here, we focus on one dimensional quasicrystal and reveal that their electronic critical states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Junmo Jeon , SungBin Lee

The properties of a two-dimensional low density (n<<1) electron system with strong onsite Hubbard attraction U>W (W is the bandwidth) in the presence of a strong random potential V uniformly distributed in the range from -V to +V are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-16 M. Yu. Kagan , E. A. Mazur

In BCS superconductors, the superfluid stiffness is virtually constant at low temperature and only slightly affected by the exponentially low density of thermal quasiparticles. Here, we present an experimental and theoretical study on the…

The magnetoconductivity of quasicrystals is often discussed in the frame of quantum corrections, namely weak (anti-) localiza-tion and electron-electron interaction. A premise for both effects is a strong elastic scattering of conduction…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Haberkern , R. Rosenbaum , H. Bekar , M. Pilosof , A. Milner , A. Gerber , P. Häussler

We study theoretically the superconductivity in doped Weyl semimetals with an inversion symmetry based on the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. In principle, the two superconducting states, i.e., the zero momentum BCS-like pairing and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-18 Tao Zhou , Yi Gao , Z. D. Wang

We investigate the superconducting instability of a two-dimensional repulsive fermion gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling $\al_R$. Using renormalization group approach, we find the superconducting transition temperature as a function of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-11-13 Luyang Wang , Oskar Vafek

The influence of weak disorder on the superconductivity in ordinary metals can be formally described by the Abrikosov-Gorkov diagrammatic approach. The vertex correction is ignored in this approach because an inequality $k_F l \gg 1$, where…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-17 Jing-Rong Wang , Guo-Zhu Liu , Chang-Jin Zhang