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Chiral superconductivity is a time-reversal-symmetry-breaking superconducting phase that has attracted broad interest as a potential platform for topological quantum computation. A fundamental consequence of this symmetry breaking is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-12 Jihang Zhu , Chunli Huang

The combination of quantum geometry and magnetic geometry in magnets excites diverse phenomena, some critical for antiferromagnetic spintronics. However, very few material platforms have been predicted and experimentally verified to date,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-28 Haiyuan Zhu , Jiayu Li , Xiaobing Chen , Yutong Yu , Qihang Liu

Response properties that are purely intrinsic to physical systems are of paramount importance in physics research, as they probe fundamental properties of band structures and allow quantitative calculation and comparison with experiment.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-11 Huiying Liu , Jianzhou Zhao , Yue-Xin Huang , Weikang Wu , Xian-Lei Sheng , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang

The recent discovery of unconventional momentum-dependent magnetic orders has expanded the landscape of magnetism beyond conventional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. Among them, $p$-wave magnets ($p$WMs) represent a novel class of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-04 Amartya Pal , Paramita Dutta , Arijit Saha

Topological superconductors are a class of unconventional superconducting materials featuring sub-gap zero-energy Majorana bound modes that hold promise as a building block for topological quantum computing. In this work, we study the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-30 Zi-Ming Wang , Meng Zeng , Chen Lu , Da-Shuai Ma , Rui-Xing Zhang , Lun-Hui Hu , Dong-Hui Xu

The superconducting gap is the fundamental parameter that characterizes the superconducting state, and its symmetry is a direct consequence of the mechanism responsible for Cooper pairing. Here we discuss about angle-resolved photoemission…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-02-22 Y. -B. Huang , P. Richard , X. -P. Wang , T. Qian , H. Ding

We study the superconducting proximity effect in a quantum wire with broken time-reversal (TR) symmetry connected to a conventional superconductor. We consider the situation of a strong TR-symmetry breaking, so that Cooper pairs entering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-17 M. A. Skvortsov , P. M. Ostrovsky , D. A. Ivanov , Ya. V. Fominov

We discuss a pairing mechanism in interacting two-dimensional multipartite lattices that intrinsically leads to a second order topological superconducting state with a spatially modulated gap. When the chemical potential is close to Dirac…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-28 Tommy Li , Max Geier , Julian Ingham , Harley D. Scammell

In high-quality nanowires, quantum confinement of the transverse electron motion splits the band of single-electron states in a series of subbands. This changes in a qualitative way the scenario of the magnetic-field induced…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 A. A. Shanenko , M. D. Croitoru , F. M. Peeters

The interplay between quantum geometry and magnetic order offers a novel strategy for designing next-generation nanodevices. Here, we demonstrate that interlayer magnetic coupling in two-dimensional (2D) CoPSe3 bilayers enables precise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Zhenning Sun , Tao Wang , Hao Jin , Xinru Li , Yadong Wei , Jian Wang

Time-reversal-symmetry breaking is generally understood to be detrimental for superconductivity. However, recent experiments found superconductivity emerging out of a normal state showing a finite anomalous Hall effect, indicative of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-14 Bernhard E. Lüscher , Mark H. Fischer

Multiband effects can lead to fundamentally different electronic behavior of solids, as exemplified by the possible emergence of Fermi surfaces of Bogoliubov quasiparticles in centrosymmetric superconductors which break time-reversal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-05 Carsten Timm , Ankita Bhattacharya

The nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE), an emergent response in systems with broken inversion symmetry, provides a powerful tool for probing topological transport properties. In this context, we investigate copper-substituted lead apatite…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-16 Bishnu Karki , Kai Chen , Pavan Hosur

The use of Berry-phase concepts has established a strong link between the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) and the topological character of the Hall currents. However, the occurrence of sign competition in the Berry curvature often hinders the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-19 Wojciech Brzezicki , Carmine Autieri , Mario Cuoco

Topological superconductors are gapped superconductors with protected Majorana surface/edge states on the boundary. In this paper, we study the Josephson coupling between time-reversal invariant topological superconductors and s-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-01-17 Suk Bum Chung , Joshua Horowitz , Xiao-Liang Qi

We investigate theoretically the properties of s-wave multiband superconductors in the weak coupling (BCS) limit in the presence of pair-breaking effects of magnetic field. It is shown that a qualitatively new gapless superconducting state…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-04-21 Victor Barzykin

Superconductivity, an emergence of a macroscopic quantum state, gives rise to unique electromagnetic responses leading to perfect shielding of magnetic field and zero electrical resistance. In this paper, we propose that superconductors…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-09 Hikaru Watanabe , Akito Daido , Youichi Yanase

In this work, a two-dimensional one-band Hubbard model is investigated within a two-pole approximation. The model presents a non-local attractive potential $U (U<0)$ that allows the study of d-wave superconductivity and also includes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-01-12 E. J. Calegari , S. G. Magalhaes , C. M. Chaves , A. Troper

The common wisdom that the phonon mechanism of electron pairing in the weak-coupling Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superconductors leads to conventional s-wave Cooper pairs is revised. An inevitable anisotropy of sound velocity in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 A. S. Alexandrov

Different superconducting pairing mechanisms are markedly distinct in the underlying Cooper pair kinematics. Pairing interactions mediated by quantum-critical soft modes are dominated by highly collinear processes, falling into two classes:…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-26 Zhiyu Dong , Patrick A. Lee , Leonid S. Levitov