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Novel categories of electronic devices and quantum materials are obtained by pipelining the unitary evolution of electron quantum states as described by Schroedinger's equation with non-unitary processes that interrupt the coherent…

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Superconducting quantum circuits are promising systems for experiments testing fundamental quantum mechanics on a macroscopic scale and for applications in quantum information processing. We report on the fabrication and characterization of…

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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…

A very fundamental and unconventional characteristic of superconductivity in iron-based materials is that it occurs in the vicinity of {\it two} other instabilities. Apart from a tendency towards magnetic order, these Fe-based systems have…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-26 S. -H. Baek , D. V. Efremov , J. M. Ok , J. S. Kim , Jeroen van den Brink , B. Büchner

We reason that various recent works by different groups reporting new phenomenologies in superconductors can be understood in a unifying way as instances of the appearance of novel competitions (or synergies in some cases) between the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-24 M. V. Ramallo

In multi-band metals quasi-particles arising from different atomic orbitals coexist at a common Fermi surface. Superconductivity in these materials may appear due to interactions within a band (intra-band) or among the distinct metallic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 Aline Ramires , Mucio A. Continentino

Impurity scattering in the unitary limit produces low energy quasiparticles with anisotropic spectrum in a two-dimensional $d$-wave superconductor. We describe a new {\em quasi-one-dimensional } limit of the quasiparticle scattering, which…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Balatsky

We study the influence of the band structure on the symmetry and superconducting transition temperature in the (solvable) weak-coupling limit of the repulsive Hubbard model. Among other results we find: 1) As a function of increasing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-11 Weejee Cho , Ronny Thomale , Srinivas Raghu , Steven A. Kivelson

We study properties of quantim wires with spin-orbit coupling and time reversal symmetry breaking, in normal and superconducting states. Electronic band structures are classified according to quasi-one-dimensional magnetic point groups, or…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-11 K. V. Samokhin

Heavy fermions have served as prototype examples of strongly-correlated electron systems. The occurrence of unconventional superconductivity in close proximity to the electronic instabilities associated with various degrees of freedom…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-18 Z. F. Weng , M. Smidman , L. Jiao , X. Lu , H. Q. Yuan

We investigate the nonequilibrium pair density wave order parameter in a simple microscopic model with the ground state $d-$ wave spatially uniform superconductivity. After pushing the system out of equilibrium by a short-time induced order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-12-17 Mikhail Malakhov , Maxim Avdeev

The discovery of superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates has added a new family of materials to the fascinating growing class of unconventional superconductors. By incorporating the strongly correlated multi-orbital nature of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-15 Andreas Kreisel , Brian M. Andersen , Astrid T. Rømer , Ilya M. Eremin , Frank Lechermann

We discuss superconductivity in a model on a cubic lattice for a $\Gamma_3$ non-Kramers system. In previous studies, it is revealed that $d$-wave superconductivity with $E_g$ symmetry occurs in a wide parameter range in a $\Gamma_3$ system.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-26 Katsunori Kubo

In recent years, there were a number of experimental developments and discoveries of novel superconducting materials which exhibit multicomponent, many-body degrees of freedom. These superconductors, that are described by several…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-24 Julien Garaud

Impurity scattering in the unitary limit produces low energy quasiparticles with anisotropic spectrum in a two-dimensional $d$-wave superconductor. We describe a new {\em quasi-one-dimensional } limit of the quasiparticle scattering, which…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 A. V. Balatsky , A. Rosengren , B. L. Altshuler

Most superconducting materials have an inversion center in their crystal lattices. One of few exceptions is the recently discovered heavy-fermion superconductor CePt3Si [E. Bauer et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 027003 (2004)]. In this paper, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 K. V. Samokhin , E. S. Zijlstra , S. K. Bose

Superconductivity is inevitably suppressed in reduced dimensionality. Questions of how thin superconducting wires or films can be before they lose their superconducting properties have important technological ramifications and go to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 Mustafa M. Ozer , James R. Thompson , Hanno H. Weitering

The topic of superconductivity in strongly disordered materials has attracted a significant attention. In particular vivid debates are related to the subject of intrinsic spatial inhomogeneity responsible for non-BCS relation between the…

Superconducting quantum devices provide excellent connectivity and controllability while semiconductor spin qubits stand out with their long-lasting quantum coherence, fast control, and potential for miniaturization and scaling. In the last…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Mónica Benito , Guido Burkard

In general a superconducting state breaks multiple symmetries and, therefore, is characterized by several different coherence lengths $\xi_i$, $i=1,...,N$. Moreover in multiband material even superconducting states that break only a single…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-28 Egor Babaev , Johan Carlstrom , Mihail Silaev , Martin Speight