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Centrosymmetric multiband superconductors which break time-reversal symmetry generically have two-dimensional nodes, i.e., Fermi surfaces of Bogoliubov quasiparticles. We show that the coupling of the electrons to the lattice always leads…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-22 Carsten Timm , P. M. R. Brydon , Daniel F. Agterberg

We demonstrate that superconductors which break time-reversal symmetry can exhibit thermoelectric properties, which are entirely different from the Ginzburg mechanism. As an example, we show that in the $s+is$ superconducting state there is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-13 Mihail Silaev , Julien Garaud , Egor Babaev

We derive a holographic formulation of triplet superconductivity in a two-dimensional metal at a ferromagnetic quantum critical point. Starting from a large-$N$ Yukawa-Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model of compressible fermions coupled to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-24 Veronika C. Stangier , Jörg Schmalian

We show that when the time reversal symmetry is broken in a multicomponent superconducting condensate without inversion symmetry the resulting Bogoliubov quasiparticles generically exhibit mini-Bogoliubov-Fermi (BF) surfaces, for small…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-12-04 Julia M. Link , Igor F. Herbut

We demonstrate that the Fulde-Ferrell (FF) phase can be induced uniquely by the orbital effect in a cylindrical metallic nanowire. In the external magnetic field the two-fold degeneracy with respect to the orbital quantum number $m$ is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-12 Paweł Wójcik , Michał Zegrodnik , Józef Spałek

Perfectly flat bands with nontrivial quantum geometry have emerged as a frontier for exotic topological phenomena and superconductors. Here, we unveil a universal family of quantized Berry-dipole flat bands in chiral-symmetric (2n+1)-band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Qingyang Mo , Shuang Zhang

Quantum geometry defines the phase and amplitude distances between quantum states. The phase distance is characterized by the Berry curvature and thus relates to topological phenomena. The significance of the full quantum geometry,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-20 Paivi Torma

The superconducting gap - an energy scale tied to the superconducting phenomena-opens on the Fermi surface at the superconducting transition temperature (TC) in conventional BCS superconductors. Quite differently, in underdoped high-TC…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-01-21 W. S. Lee , I. M. Vishik , K. Tanaka , D. H. Lu , T. Sasagawa , N. Nagaosa , T. P. Devereaux , Z. Hussain , Z. -X. Shen

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

We investigate superfluidity of bosons in gapped topological bands and discover a new phase that has no counterparts in the previous literature. This phase is characterized by a highly unconventional modulation of the order parameter,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-19 Ilya Lukin , Andrii Sotnikov , Alexander Kruchkov

The symmetry of Cooper pairs encodes key information about superconductivity and has been widely studied through the temperature dependence of the superfluid weight. However, in systems dominated by quantum geometry, conventional theories…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-20 Yuma Hirobe , Taisei Kitamura , Youichi Yanase

Superconductors with an odd number of bands crossing the Fermi energy have topologically protected Andreev states at interfaces, including Majorana states in one dimensional geometries. Superconductivity, a low number of 1D channels, large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 J. G. Rodrigo , V. Crespo , H. Suderow , S. Vieira , F. Guinea

The study of quantum geometry effects in materials has been one of the most important research directions in recent decades. The quantum geometry of a material is characterized by the quantum geometry tensor of the Bloch states. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-17 Hui Li , Chengping Zhang , Chengjie Zhou , Chen Ma , Xiao Lei , Zijing Jin , Hongtao He , Baikui Li , Kam Tuen Law , Jiannong Wang

A normal metallic system proximitized by a superconductor can exhibit a gapless superconducting state characterized by segmented Fermi surfaces, as confirmed experimentally. In such a state, quasiparticle states remain gapless along one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Miaomiao Wei , Longjun Xiang , Fuming Xu , Bin Wang , Jian Wang

Although the standard theory of superconductivity based on the BCS theory is a successful one, several experimental results indicate the necessity for a fundamental revision. We argue that the revision is on the origin of the phase variable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-05-03 Hiroyasu Koizumi

We decompose the intrinsic second-order nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE) of a generic multiband system into its quantum-geometric contributions within a fully quantum-mechanical, projector-based formalism. By expanding the nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Yannis Ulrich , Johannes Mitscherling , Laura Classen , Andreas P. Schnyder

The Berry curvature and quantum metric are the imaginary part and real part, respectively, of the quantum geometric tensor which characterizes the topology of quantum states. The former is known to generate a zoo of important discoveries…

The quantum geometric properties of topological materials underpin many exotic physical phenomena and applications. Quantum nonlinearity has emerged as a powerful probe for revealing these properties. The Berry curvature dipole in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-23 Xing-Yu Liu , An-Qi Wang , Dong Li , Tong-Yang Zhao , Xin Liao , Zhi-Min Liao

We theoretically study the quantum anomalies in the superconducting Weyl metals based on the topological field theory. It is demonstrated that the Fermi arc and the surface Andreev bound state, characteristic of the superconducting Weyl…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-01 Rui Wang , Lei Hao , Baigeng Wang , C. S. Ting

The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in Fe-based compounds [1,2] has triggered numerous investigations on the interplay between superconductivity and magnetism [3] and, more recently, on the enhancement of transition…