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We investigate the superconducting states of the high-Tc superconductors which we argue to be commensurately locked by the tilted rigid octahedral distortion. The method is based on the analysis of the kinematics of the rigid-octahedra…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Teresa Lenkowska-Czerwinska

Newly-discovered superconductor UTe$_2$ is a strong contender for a topological spin-triplet state wherein a multi-component order parameter arises from two nearly-degenerate superconducting states. A key issue is whether both of these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-10 S. M. Thomas , C. Stevens , F. B. Santos , S. S. Fender , E. D. Bauer , F. Ronning , J. D. Thompson , A. Huxley , P. F. S. Rosa

By employing a series of experimental techniques, we provide clear evidence that CaPtAs represents a rare example of a noncentrosymmetric superconductor which simultaneously exhibits nodes in the superconducting gap and broken time-reversal…

Topological superconductors are exotic phases of matter featuring robust surface states that could be leveraged for topological quantum computation. A useful guiding principle for the search of topological superconductors is to relate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-05 Seishiro Ono , Hoi Chun Po , Haruki Watanabe

Topological superconductivity is an exotic quantum phenomenon with coupled nontrivial topological order and superconductivity together. A direct idea for producing topological superconductors is to create superconductivity based on the well…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-23 Hao Yu , Noah F. Q. Yuan , Wei-Jian Li , Liu-Cheng Chen , Zi-Yu Cao , Di Li , Xiaoying Qin , Chang-De Gong , Xiao-Jia Chen

The topological aspects of electrons in solids emerge in realistic matters as represented by topological insulators. They are expected to show a variety of new magneto-electric phenomena, and especially the ones hosting superconductivity…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-28 M. Sakano , K. Okawa , M. Kanou , H. Sanjo , T. Okuda , T. Sasagawa , K. Ishizaka

A topological superconductor (TSC) is characterized by the topologically-protected gapless surface state that is essentially an Andreev bound state consisting of Majorana fermions. While a TSC has not yet been discovered, the doped…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-11-16 Satoshi Sasaki , M. Kriener , Kouji Segawa , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka , Masatoshi Sato , Yoichi Ando

We study topological transitions in one dimensional superconductors that can harbor multiple edge Majorana bound states protected by chiral symmetry. The chiral symmetry arises due to the structure of the internal spin degrees of freedom of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-05 Kristian Løvås Svalland , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Mario Cuoco

Superconductivity and magnetism are antagonistic states of matter. The presence of spontaneous magnetic fields inside the superconducting state is, therefore, an intriguing phenomenon prompting extensive experimental and theoretical…

Topological crystalline insulators are topological insulators whose surface states are protected by the crystalline symmetry, instead of the time reversal symmetry. Similar to the first generation of three-dimensional topological insulators…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Jie Shen , Judy J. Cha

Topological semimetals with superconducting properties provide an emergent platform to explore the properties of topological superconductors. We report magnetization, and magneto-transport measurements on high quality single crystals of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-29 M. Singh , P. Saha , V. Nagpal , S. Patnaik

We investigate unconventional superconductivity in three-dimensional electronic systems with the chemical potential close to a quadratic band touching point in the band dispersion. Short-range interactions can lead to d-wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-06 Igor Boettcher , Igor F. Herbut

A topological superconductor is a fully gapped superconductor that exhibits exotic zero-energy Andreev surface states at interfaces with a normal metal. In this paper we investigate the properties of a three-dimensional time reversal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-11-11 Andreas P. Schnyder , P. M. R. Brydon , Dirk Manske , Carsten Timm

We report superconducting properties of noncentrosymmetric superconductor LaPtGe which crystallizes in noncentrosymmetric $ \alpha $-ThSi$ _{2} $ structure. The magnetization, resistivity and specific heat measurements confirm that LaPtGe…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-10-09 Sajilesh. K. P. , D. Singh , P. K. Biswas , A. D. Hillier , R. P. Singh

We establish the topology of the spin-singlet superconducting states in the bare hyperhoneycomb lattice and derive analytically the full phase diagram using only symmetry and topology in combination with simple energy arguments. The phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-15 Adrien Bouhon , Johann Schmidt , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

The emergence of two-dimensional (2D) superconductivity in bulk transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is a fascinating area of research, as their weak interlayer coupling leads to novel superconducting behavior and offers a rich platform…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-04 P. Manna , S. Sharma , T. Agarwal , S. Srivastava , P. Mishra , R. P. Singh

We describe a class of parity- and time-reversal-invariant topological states of matter which can arise in correlated electron systems in 2+1-dimensions. These states are characterized by particle-like excitations exhibiting exotic braiding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-07 Michael Freedman , Chetan Nayak , Kirill Shtengel , Kevin Walker , Zhenghan Wang

We consider the effect of spin-orbit coupling on a two-dimensional Kondo Lattice model, in which conduction electrons are antiferromagnetically coupled to a Yao-Lee spin liquid. When a Rashba spin-orbit interaction and a nearest-neighbor…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-07 Zekun Zhuang , Piers Coleman

The recent measurement of the de Haas-van Alphen effect in the spin-triplet superconductor UTe2 [D. Aoki et al., J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 91, 083704 (2022)] supports cylindrical electron and hole Fermi surfaces, which implies that UTe2 is trivial…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-03 Jushin Tei , Takeshi Mizushima , Satoshi Fujimoto

Time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity is a quintessential unconventional quantum state. In Josephson junctions, time-reversal symmetry breaking manifests itself in the supercurrent interference pattern as the invariance of the…