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Recently it was demonstrated that Sr intercalation provides a new route to induce superconductivity in the topological insulator Bi$_2$Se$_3$. Topological superconductors are predicted to be unconventional, with mixed even and odd parity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-29 Y. Pan , A. M. Nikitin , G. K. Araizi , Y. K. Huang , Y. Matsushita , T. Naka , A. de Visser

Quasi-two-dimensional layered BiSe, a natural super-lattice with Bi2Se3-Bi2-Bi2Se3 units, has recently been predicted to be a dual topological insulator, simultaneously weak topological insulator as well as topological crystalline…

We study superconducting pairing in the doped Kitaev-Heisenberg model by taking into account the recently proposed symmetric off-diagonal exchange $\Gamma$. By performing a mean-field analysis, we classify all possible superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-17 Johann Schmidt , Daniel D. Scherer , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is an important concept for understanding physics ranging from the elementary particles to states of matter. For example, the superconducting state breaks global gauge symmetry, and unconventional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-13 K. Matano , M. Kriener , K. Segawa , Y. Ando , Guo-qing Zheng

A notable characteristic of PbTaSe$_2$, a prototypical noncentrosymmetric (NCS) superconductor, is that its superconductivity can be modulated through a structural transition under hydrostatic pressure [Phys. Rev. B 95, 224508 (2017)]. Here…

Motivated by the recent discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe$_2$, we analyze the correlated physics in this system in the framework of a continuum model for the moir\'e superlattice. Using the symmetries in a fine-tuned…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-09 Maine Christos , Pietro M. Bonetti , Mathias S. Scheurer

We study the low-energy surface electronic structure of the transition-metal dichalcogenide superconductor PdTe$_2$ by spin- and angle-resolved photoemission, scanning tunneling microscopy, and density-functional theory-based supercell…

The topological invariants of gapped time reversal invariant lattice superconductors are studied by mapping the superconducting mean field Hamiltonian to a Bloch Hamiltonian. There is a single $Z_2 $ invariant in two dimensions and four…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Rahul Roy

We propose an exotic scenario that topological superconductivity can emerge by doping strongly interacting fermionic systems whose spin degrees of freedom form bosonic symmetry protected topological (SPT) state. Specifically, we study a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-27 Shang-Qiang Ning , Zheng-Xin Liu , Hong-Chen Jiang

The single helical Fermi surface on the surface state of three-dimensional topological insulator Bi2Se3 is constrained by the time-reversal invariant bulk topology to possess a spin-singlet superconducting pairing symmetry. In fact, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-24 P. Neha , P. K. Biswas , Tanmoy Das , S. Patnaik

Superconductivity is associated with spontaneously broken gauge symmetry. In some exotic superconductors the time-reversal symmetry is broken as well, accompanied with internal magnetic field. A time-reversal symmetry broken (TRSB)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-03-18 Xiao Hu , Zhi Wang

Topologically protected surface states have garnered significant attention due to their robustness against perturbations and potential applications in optoelectronics. Bi2 Bi2Se3 is a topological semimetal composed of a 2D bismuthene sheet…

We examine the stability of mixed-symmetry superconducting states with broken time-reversal symmetry in spatial-symmetry-broken systems, including chiral states, on the basis of the free-energy functional derived in the weak-coupling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-05-27 Hiroshi Shimahara

We have experimentally realized novel space-time inversion (P-T) invariant Z2-type topological semimetal-bands, via an analogy between the momentum space and a controllable parameter space in superconducting quantum circuits. By measuring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Xinsheng Tan , Yuxin Zhao , Qiang Liu , Guangming Xue , Haifeng Yu , Zidan Wang , Yang Yu

A nematic topological superconductor has an order parameter symmetry, which spontaneously breaks the crystalline symmetry in its superconducting state. This state can be observed, for example, by thermodynamic or upper critical field…

Superconducting states with different internal topology are discussed for the layered high-T_c materials. If the time inversion symmetry is broken, the superconductivity is determined not only by the symmetry of the superconducting state,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 G. E. Volovik

Topological superconductivity is the quantum condensate of paired electrons with an odd parity of the pairing function. One of the candidates is the triplet pairing superconductor derived from topological insulator Bi2Se3 by chemical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-04-11 Guan Du , Yufeng Li , J. Schneeloch , R. D. Zhong , Genda Gu , Huan Yang , Hai-Hu Wen

In Z2 topological metals, nontrivial band topology and strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) impose symmetry constraints that can stabilize unconventional superconducting states, even when thermodynamic probes indicate an isotropic gap. Here, we…

The recent discovery of heavy-fermion superconductor UTe$_2$ has broadened the possibility of realizing exotic time-reversal-symmetry-breaking superconductivity. However, a comprehensive understanding of the topological phases in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-11 Yuki Yamazaki , Shingo Kobayashi

We investigate the superconducting gap function of topological superconductor PbTaSe$_2$. Temperature, magnetic field, and three-dimensional (3D) field-angle dependences of the specific heat prove that the superconductivity of PbTaSe$_2$ is…