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Magnetic superconductors define a broad class of strongly correlated materials in which superconductivity may coexist with either localized or itinerant long-range magnetic order. In this work we consider a multiband model of a disordered…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-02 Maxim Dzero , Alex Levchenko

We calculate the anomalous Hall conductance of superconductors with spin-orbit interaction and with either uniform or local magnetization. In the first case we consider a uniform ferromagnetic ordering in a spin triplet superconductor,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-03 P. D. Sacramento , M. A. N. Araujo , V. R. Vieira , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas

Emergence of odd-frequency s-wave superconductivity is demonstrated in the two-channel Kondo lattice by means of the dynamical mean-field theory combined with the continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo method. Around half filling of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-02 Shintaro Hoshino , Yoshio Kuramoto

We establish the existence of bulk odd-frequency superconductivity in Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ and show that an intrinsic Kerr effect is a direct evidence of this state. We use both general two- and three-orbital models, as well as a realistic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-25 L. Komendová , A. M. Black-Schaffer

We study the impurity effect in the time reversal symmetry (${\cal T}$) breaking superconductor based on the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) equations. In ${\cal T}$-violating superconductors, spontaneous currents are induced around the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Yikihiro Okuno

We illuminate the superconducting phases in [001]-grown-noncentrosymmetric quantum wells with an anisotropic spin-orbit coupling in the presence of on-site Hubbard interaction. Within the random phase approximation, we investigate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-20 Mehdi Biderang , Mohammad-Hossein Zare , Alireza Akbari

We review recent developments in our understanding of how impurities influence the electronic states in the bulk of superconductors. Our focus is on the quasi-localized states in the vicinity of impurity sites in conventional and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Balatsky , I. Vekhter , Jian-Xin Zhu

We investigate how hybridization (single-quasiparticle scattering) between two superconducting bands induces odd-frequency superconductivity in a multiband superconductor. An explicit derivation of the odd-frequency pairing correlation and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-07 L. Komendová , A. V. Balatsky , A. M. Black-Schaffer

Odd-frequency superconductivity is an exotic phase of matter in which Cooper pairing between electrons is entirely dynamical in nature. Majorana zero modes exhibit pure odd-frequency superconducting correlations due to their specific…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-11 Dushko Kuzmanovski , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Jorge Cayao

The spin-fluctuation based pairing mechanism has proven successful in explaining the pairing symmetries due to Fermi surface nesting of both cuprates and iron-based materials. In this work, we study signatures of a spin-fluctuation mediated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-19 A. T. Roemer , S. Graser , P. J. Hirschfeld , B. M. Andersen

We investigate general structure of Landau free energy for stabilizing a novel superconducting state with both even-frequency and odd-frequency components in gap function. On the basis of the Luttinger-Ward functional, we elucidate an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-05-29 Hiroaki Kusunose , Masashige Matsumoto , Mikito Koga

Topological superconductors are essential elements of the periodic table of topological quantum matter. However, the relevant odd-parity spin-triplet superconductors are rare. We report high-resolution measurements of the complex electrical…

We study theoretically the effects of random nonmagnetic impurities on the superconducting transition temperature $T_c$ in a two-band superconductor characterized by an equal-time s-wave interband pairing order parameter. The Fermi-Dirac…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-21 Yasuhiro Asano , Akihiro Sasaki , Alexander A. Golubov

Recently, a theoretical study [Li {\it et al.},~npj Quantum Materials 6, 36 (2021)] investigated a model of a disordered $d$-wave superconductor, and reported local time-reversal symmetry breaking current loops for sufficiently high…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-05 Clara N. Breiø , P. J. Hirschfeld , Brian M. Andersen

Unconventional superconductors host a plethora of interesting physical phenomena. However, the standard theory of superconductivity suggests that unconventional pairing is highly sensitive to disorder, and hence can only be observed in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-07-15 Karen Michaeli , Liang Fu

We study the proximity-induced superconducting correlations in a normal metal connected to a superconductor when the interface between them is spin-active and the normal metal is ballistic or diffusive. Remarkably, for any interface spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob Linder , Takehito Yokoyama , Asle Sudbø , Matthias Eschrig

Recent $\mu$SR measurements revealed remarkable signatures of spontaneous magnetism coexisting with superconductivity in elemental rhenium. Here we provide a quantitative theory that uncovers the nature of the superconducting instability by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-12 Gábor Csire , James Annett , Jorge Quintanilla , Balázs Újfalussy

Majorana zero modes have been shown to be the simplest quasiparticles exhibiting pure odd-frequency pairing, an effect that has so far been theoretically established in the static regime. In this work, we investigate the formation of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-23 Eslam Ahmed , Shun Tamura , Yukio Tanaka , Jorge Cayao

We theoretically study the appearance of bound states around impurities in a superconducting bilayer. We focus our attention on $s$-wave pairing, which includes unconventional odd-parity states permitted by the layer degree of freedom.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-20 Yufei Zhu , Nico A. Hackner , P. M. R. Brydon

We show that quasiparticle interference (QPI) due to omnipresent weak impurities and probed by Fourier transform scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy acts as a direct experimental probe of bulk odd-frequency superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-11 Debmalya Chakraborty , Annica M. Black-Schaffer