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Junctions and interfaces consisting of unconventional superconductors provide an excellent experimental playground to study exotic phenomena related to the phase of the order parameter. Not only the complex structure of unconventional order…

We consider nonreciprocal supercurrent effects in Josephson junctions based on multiband superconductors with a pairing structure that can break time-reversal symmetry. We demonstrate that a nonreciprocal supercurrent can be generally…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-12 Yuriy Yerin , Stefan-Ludwig Drechsler , A. A. Varlamov , Mario Cuoco , Francesco Giazotto

We present a detailed study of the gap symmetry and the quasiparticle wave function topology in two-dimensional superconductors without inversion center. The strong spin-orbit coupling of electrons with the crystal lattice makes it…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-12-09 K. V. Samokhin

Inversion and time reversal are essential symmetries for the structure of Cooper pairs in superconductors. The loss of one or both leads to modifications to this structure and can change the properties of the superconducting phases in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-21 Mark H Fischer , Manfred Sigrist , Daniel F Agterberg , Youichi Yanase

We classify line nodes in superconductors with strong spin-orbit interactions and time-reversal symmetry, where the latter may include non-primitive translations in the magnetic Brillouin zone to account for coexistence with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-24 T. Micklitz , M. R. Norman

The interference between spin-density-wave and superconducting instabilities in quasi-one-dimensional correlated metals is analyzed using the renormalization group method. At the one-loop level, we show how the interference leads to a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Raphael Duprat , C. Bourbonnais

Noncentrosymmetric superconductors offer fascinating phenomena of quantum transport and optics such as nonreciprocal and nonlinear responses. Time-reversal symmetry breaking often plays an essential role in the emergence and enhancement of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-31 Hiroto Tanaka , Hikaru Watanabe , Youichi Yanase

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

Topological nodal superconductors possess gapless low energy excitations that are characterized by point or line nodal Fermi surfaces. In this work, using a coupled wire construction, we study topological nodal superconductors that have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-28 Moon Jip Park , Syed Raza , Matthew J. Gilbert , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo

Fermi-surface spin splitting generated by non-relativistic exchange fields provides a new route to topological superconductivity without relying on strong spin-orbit coupling. Here, we study superconducting instabilities of a square-lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-05 Kyoung-Min Kim , Gibaik Sim , Moon Jip Park

In superconductors with three or more bands, time-reversal symmetry (TRS) may be broken in the presence of repulsive interband couplings, resulting in a pair of degenerate states characterized by opposite chiralities. We consider a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-19 Zhao Huang , Xiao Hu

Time-reversal invariant superconductors having nodes of vanishing excitation gap support zero-energy boundary states with topological protection. Existing expressions for the topological invariant are given in terms of the Hamiltonian of an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-11-29 J. P. Dahlhaus , M. Gibertini , C. W. J. Beenakker

In unconventional superconductors, inversion and/or time-reversal symmetries may be broken, either extrinsically or spontaneously. Here, we consider a simple BCS model with both attractive singlet and attractive triplet pairing channels. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-16 Maitê Kessler de Azambuja , David Möckli

When matter undergoes a phase transition from one state to another, usually a change in symmetry is observed, as some of the symmetries exhibited are said to be spontaneously broken. The superconducting phase transition in the underdoped…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Kaminski , S. Rosenkranz , H. M. Fretwell , J. C. Campuzano , Z. Li , H. Raffy , W. G. Cullen , H. You , C. G. Olson , C. M. Varma , H. H"ochst

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

Studying the influence of breaking time-reversal symmetry on topological insulator surface states is an important problem of current interest in condensed matter physics and could provide a route toward proof-of-concept spintronic devices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Joon Sue Lee , Anthony Richardella , Robert D. Fraleigh , Chao-xing Liu , Weiwei Zhao , Nitin Samarth

It is shown that superfluids in two and three dimensions which have time reversal invariant ground states have phases which are distinguished by a topological invariant. Further, it is shown that the B-phase of $^3$ He is a superfluid in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-20 Rahul Roy

Spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking in superconductors with competing non-degenerate pairing channels is an exotic quantum phase transition that could give rise to robust topological superconductivity and unusual magnetism. It is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-03 Yin Shi

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

In materials without an inversion center of symmetry the spin degeneracy of the conducting band is lifted by an antisymmetric spin orbit coupling (ASOC). Under such circumstances, spin and parity cannot be separately used to classify the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 P. A. Frigeri , D. F. Agterberg , I. Milat , M. Sigrist