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In this paper we address Lifshitz transition induced by applied external magnetic field in a case of iron-based superconductors, in which a difference between the Fermi level and the edges of the bands is relatively small. We introduce and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-13 Andrzej Ptok , Konrad J. Kapcia , Agnieszka Cichy , Andrzej M. Oleś , Przemysław Piekarz

In 1966 Leggett used a two-band superconductor to show that a new collective mode could exist at low temperatures, corresponding to a counter-flow of the superconducting condensates in each band. Here, the theory of electronic Raman…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-07-08 M. V. Klein

We demonstrate that in multilayered superconductor-ferromagnet structures a non-collinear alignment of the magnetizations of different ferromagnetic layers generates a triplet superconducting condensate which is odd in frequency. This…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 A. F. Volkov , F. S. Bergeret , K. B. Efetov

Detecting the phases of the superconducting order parameter is pivotal for unraveling the pairing symmetry of superconducting electrons. Conventional methods for probing these phases have focused on macroscopic interference effects, such as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-02 Bo Zhan , Qiang Gao , Runze Chi , Yiwen Chen , Lin Zhao , Dingshun Lv , Xingjiang Zhou , Tao Xiang

Leggett's mode is a collective excitation corresponding to the oscillation of the relative phase of the order parameters in a two band superconductor, with frequency proportional to interband coupling. We report on the existence of modes,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-13 Naoum Karchev

Electronic correlations were long suggested not only to be responsible for the complexity of many novel materials, but also to form essential prerequisites for their intriguing properties. Electronic behavior of iron-based superconductors…

The opening of the pseudogap in underdoped cuprates breaks up the Fermi surface, which may lead to a breakup of the d-wave order parameter into two subband amplitudes and a low energy Leggett mode due to phase fluctuations between them.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-17 Y. H. Liu , R. M. Konik , T. M. Rice , F. C. Zhang

Disorder in two-band superconductors with repulsive interband interaction induces a frustrated competition between the phase-locking preferences of the various potential and kinetic terms. This frustrated interaction can result in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-07-27 Julien Garaud , Alberto Corticelli , Mihail Silaev , Egor Babaev

The interplay of topology and superconductivity has become a subject of intense research in condensed matter physics for the pursuit of topologically non-trivial forms of superconducting pairing. An intrinsically normal-conducting material…

We present a systematic investigation of superconductivity in a topological superconductor candidate $T_{\rm d}$-MoTe$_2$ in the few-layer limit. By examining multiple mechanically exfoliated samples with different thicknesses, substrates…

Recent chain-like structured materials have shown a robust superconducting phase. These materials exhibit the presence of quasi-one-dimensional bands (q1D) coupled to conventional higher-dimensional bands. On the mean-field level such…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-11 T. T. Saraiva , A. A. Shanenko , A. Vagov , A. S. Vasenko

The transition metal dichalcogenide PdTe$_2$ was recently shown to be a unique system where a type II Dirac semimetallic phase and a superconducting phase co-exist. This observation has led to wide speculation on the possibility of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-31 Shekhar Das , Amit , Anshu Sirohi , Lalit Yadav , Sirshendu Gayen , Yogesh Singh , Goutam Sheet

High-Tc superconducting materials (HTSC) have anomalous properties such as the pseudo-gap or spin-gap etc., in Hall coefficient, 1/T1T and the density of states etc. First including effects of strong on-site repulsion between d-electrons at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Akito Kobayashi , Atsushi Tsuruta , Tamifusa Matsuura , Yoshihiro Kuroda

In multiband superconductivity, the case where the single electron hopping between different Fermi surface spots of different symmetry is forbidden by selection rules is recently attracting a large interest. The focus is addressed to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-10-14 Antonio Bianconi , Davide Innocenti , Antonio Valletta , Andrea Perali

A theory of the proximity effect in normal metal - multiband superconductor hybrid structures is formulated within the quasiclassical Green's function formalism. It is shown that the existence of multiple superconducting bands manifests…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Brinkman , A. A. Golubov , M. Yu. Kupriyanov

In multiband superconductors, multiple collective modes exist associated with the multiple order parameters. Oscillations of the amplitude and the relative phase of the order parameters are called Higgs and Leggett modes, respectively.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-19 Yuta Murotani , Ryo Shimano

Superconductivity and charge density wave (CDW) appear in the phase diagram of a variety of materials including the high - $T$$_c$ cuprate family and many transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Their interplay may give rise to exotic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-14 Menghan Liao , Heng Wang , Yuying Zhu , Runan Shang , Mohsin Rafique , Lexian Yang , Hao Zhang , Ding Zhang , Qi-Kun Xue

Quantum materials that host a flat band, such as pseudospin-1 lattices and magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, can exhibit drastically new physical phenomena including unconventional superconductivity, orbital ferromagnetism, and Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Hong-Ya Xu , Ying-Cheng Lai

The attractive interaction in conventional BCS superconductors is provided by a bosonic mode. However, the pairing glue of most unconventional superconductors is unknown. The effect of electron-boson coupling is therefore extensively…

We show that a clean multiband superconductor may display one or several phase transitions with increasing temperature from or to frustrated configurations of the relative phases of the superconducting order parameters. These transitions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 R. G. Dias , A. M. Marques