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We investigate the combined effect of Hund's and spin-orbit (SO) coupling on superconductivity in multi-orbital systems. Hund's interaction leads to orbital-singlet spin-triplet superconductivity, where the Cooper pair wave function is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 Christoph M. Puetter , Hae-Young Kee

We study spin-triplet superconductivity with both unitary and nonunitary pairing in the presence of an external Zeeman magnetic field. Within a mean-field framework, we exactly diagonalize the Bogoliubov-de Gennes Hamiltonian and derive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-19 Wen Li , Vahid Hassanzade , Maxim Dzero , Vladyslav Kozii

The spin-orbit coupling can lead to exotic states of matter and unexpected behavior of the system properties. In this paper, we investigate the influence of spin-orbit coupling induced by proximity effects on a monolayer of superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-09 Andrzej Ptok , Karen Rodríguez , Konrad Jerzy Kapcia

Even-parity interorbital spin-triplet pairing emerges as an intriguing candidate in multiorbital superconductors with significant Hund's and spin-orbit coupling. Within such a state, the pairing is dominated by the intraband…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-01 Jonathan Clepkens , Austin W. Lindquist , Xiaoyu Liu , Hae-Young Kee

Nonunitary superconductivity has attracted renewed interest as a novel gapless phase of matter. In this study, we investigate the superconducting gap structure of nonunitary odd-parity chiral pairing states in a superconductor involving…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-08 Koki Maeno , Yuki Kawaguchi , Yasuhiro Asano , Shingo Kobayashi

In non-centrosymmetric superconductors, where the crystal structure lacks a centre of inversion, parity is no longer a good quantum number and an electronic antisymmetric spin-orbit coupling (ASOC) is allowed to exist by symmetry. If this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-22 M. Smidman , M. B. Salamon , H. Q. Yuan , D. F. Agterberg

Motivated by a growing interest in multi-orbital superconductors with spin-orbit interactions, we perform the group-theoretical classification of various unconventional superconductivity emerging in symmorphic $\rm O$, $\rm D_4$, and $\rm…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-11-28 Takuya Nomoto , Kazumasa Hattori , Hiroaki Ikeda

This article reviews the NMR and NQR studies on iron-based high-temperature superconductors by the IOP/Okayama group. It was found that the electron pairs in the superconducting state are in the spin-singlet state with multiple fully-opened…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-05-31 Jie Yang , Guo-qing Zheng

Synthetic spin-orbit coupling in cold atoms couples the pseudo-spin and spatial degrees of freedom, and therefore the inherent spin symmetry of the system plays an important role. In systems of two pseudo-spin degrees, two particles contain…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-02-05 Ayaka Usui , Abel Rojo-Francàs , James Schloss , Bruno Juliá-Díaz

We study superconductivity in spin-orbit-coupled systems in the vicinity of inversion symmetry breaking. We find that due to the presence of spin-orbit coupling, fluctuations of the incipient parity-breaking order generate an attractive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-18 Vladyslav Kozii , Liang Fu

We determine theoretically the effect of spin-orbit coupling on the magnetic excitation spectrum of itinerant multi-orbital systems, with specific application to iron-based superconductors. Our microscopic model includes a realistic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-07-24 Daniel D. Scherer , Brian M. Andersen

A notable aspect of high-temperature superconductivity in the copper oxides is the unconventional nature of the underlying paired-electron state. A direct manifestation of the unconventional state is a pairing energy - that is, the energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Lake , G. Aeppli , T. E. Mason , A. Schroder , D. F. McMorrow , K. Lefmann , M. Isshiki , M. Nohara , H. Takagi , S. M. Hayden

We investigate the effect of spin orbit coupling on proximity induced superconductivity in a normal metal attached to a superconductor. Specifically, we consider a heterostructure where the presence of interfaces gives rise to a Rashba spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-30 Vivek Mishra , Yu Li , Fu-Chun Zhang , Stefan Kirchner

The formation of electron pairs is a prerequisite of superconductivity. The fermionic nature of electrons yields four classes of superconducting correlations with definite symmetry in spin, space and time. Here, we suggest double quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Björn Sothmann , Stephan Weiss , Michele Governale , Jürgen König

In conventional superconductors, electrons of opposite spins are bound into Cooper pairs. However, when the superconductor is in contact with a non-uniformly ordered ferromagnet, an exotic type of superconductivity can appear at the…

We investigate the induced superconducting pair correlations in junctions between a conventional spin-singlet $s$-wave superconductor and a disordered normal metal. Decomposing the pair amplitude based on its symmetries in the time domain,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-08 Tomas Löthman , Christopher Triola , Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

The heavy-fermion system $\mathrm{UTe_2}$ is a candidate for spin-triplet superconductivity, which is of considerable interest to quantum engineering. Among the outstanding issues is the nature of the pairing state. A recent surprising…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-30 Lei Chen , Haoyu Hu , Christopher Lane , Emilian M. Nica , Jian-Xin Zhu , Qimiao Si

Superconductivity in the recently discovered altermagnetic materials hosts large prospects for both fundamental physics and technological applications. In this work we show that a characteristic spin-sublattice locking in altermagnets puts…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-09 Debmalya Chakraborty , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Nonunitary superconductivity is a rare and striking phenomenon in which spin up and spin down electrons segregate into two different quantum condensates. Because they support topological excitations, such superconductors are being seriously…

The interplay of Anderson localization and electron-electron interactions is known to lead to enhancement of superconductivity due to multifractality of electron wave functions. We develop the theory of multifractally-enhanced…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-23 E. S. Andriyakhina , I. S. Burmistrov