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The doped topological insulator Cu$_x$Bi$_2$Se$_3$ has attracted considerable attention as a new platform for studying novel properties of spin-triplet and topological superconductivity. In this work, we performed synchrotron x-ray…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-26 K. Matano , S. Takayanagi , K. Ito , S. Nita , M. Yokoyama , M. Mihaescu , H. Nakao , Guo-qing Zheng

We study superconductivity on the honeycomb lattice close to the Mott state at half-filling. Due to the sixfold lattice symmetry and disjoint Fermi surfaces at opposite momenta, we show that several different fully gapped superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-23 Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Wei Wu , Karyn Le Hur

The ground state of Sn/Si(111) and Sn/Ge(111) surface $\alpha$-phases is reexamined theoretically, based on $ab-initio$ calculations where correlations are approximately included through the orbital dependence of the Coulomb interaction (in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Profeta , E. Tosatti

We use the tensor network algorithm to show evidences of a non-uniform chiral spin-liquid (CSL) ground state in a frustrated spin-1/2 model on a square lattice, in the regime of moat-like band structure of the lattice, i.e., a band with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-06 Rui Wang , Haiyuan Zou , Tigran Sedrakyan , Baigeng Wang , D. Y. Xing

Using as a model the Hubbard Hamiltonian we determine various basic properties of electron-doped cuprate superconductors like ${Nd}_{2-x}{Ce}_{x}{CuO}_{4}$ and ${Pr}_{2-x}{Ce}_{x}{CuO}_{4}$ for a spin-fluctuation-induced pairing mechanism.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Manske , I. Eremin , K. H. Bennemann

The topological crystalline insulator tin telluride is known to host superconductivity when doped with indium (Sn$_{1-x}$In$_{x}$Te), and for low indium contents ($x=0.04$) it is known that the topological surface states are preserved. Here…

Motivated by recent observations of chiral-induced magnetization and spin-selective transport we studied the effect of chiral molecules on conventional BCS superconductors. By applying scanning tunneling spectroscopy, we demonstrate that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-21 H. Alpern , E. Katzir , S. Yochelis , N. Katz , Y. Paltiel , O. Millo

The novel nickelate superconductors of infinite-layer type feature challenging electronic pecularities in the normal-state phase diagram with doping. Distinct many-body behavior and different dispersion regimes of the entangled…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-29 Frank Lechermann

We show that finite angular momentum pairing chiral superconductors on the triangular lattice have point zeroes in the complex gap function. A topological quantum phase transition takes place through a nodal superconducting state at a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-05-30 Sen Zhou , Ziqiang Wang

When superconducting pairing occurs between Fermi surfaces with different Chern numbers, the Cooper pairs possess nontrivial pair Berry phase, which enforces pairing gap nodes. The resulting pairing order is further distinguished from the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-25 Eric Bobrow , Yi Li

Motivated by recent experiments in Ba$_{1-x}$K$_{x}$Fe$_{2}$As$_{2}$ {[}A. E. B\"ohmer \textit{et al}, to be published{]}, we analyze the type of spin-density wave (SDW) order in doped iron-pnictides and the discontinuities of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-15 Jian Kang , Xiaoyu Wang , A. V. Chubukov , R. M. Fernandes

From a leading-order unbiased renormalization group analysis we here showcase the emergence of superconductivity (including the topological ones) from purely repulsive electron-electron interactions in two-dimensional doped Dirac…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-26 Sk Asrap Murshed , Sanjib Kumar Das , Bitan Roy

We study superconducting (SC) phases that are naturally proximate to a spin-orbit coupled SU(8) Dirac semi-metal on a honeycomb lattice. This system, which offers enhanced low-energy symmetries, presents an interesting platform for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-09 Ankush Chaubey , Basudeb Mondal , Vijay B. Shenoy , Subhro Bhattacharjee

We report the superconductivity in the layered Zintl phase LiSn$_2$As$_2$, which is isostructural to NaSn$_2$As$_2$ and has a transition temperature ($T_{\mathrm{c}}$) of 1.6 K. Despite similar $T_{\mathrm{c}}$ and Debye temperatures,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-23 Junjie Wang , Xiangru Cui , Yimin Wan , Tianping Ying , Shiyan Li , Jiangang Guo

We consider possible high temperature superconductivity (high-T$_c$) in transition metal compounds with a cubic zinc-blende lattice structure. When the electron filling configuration in the d-shell is close to d$^7$, all three t$_{2g}$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-04-14 Qiang Zhang , Kun Jiang , Yuhao Gu , Jiangping Hu

Based on experimental data on the newly synthesized iron-based superconductors and the relevant band structure calculations, we propose a minimal two-band BCS-type Hamiltonian with the interband Hubbard interaction included. We illustrate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Q. Han , Y. Chen , Z. D. Wang

While topological superconductors are predicted to provide building blocks for fault-tolerant quantum computing, one of the remaining challenges is to find a convenient experimental platform that would allow patterning of circuits. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-28 Jerome T. Mlack , Atikur Rahman , Gopinath Danda , Natalia Drichko , Sarah Friedensen , Marija Drndic , Nina Markovic

In their article, Zhang et al. [Phys. Rev. B 86, 024516 (2012)] present a remarkable result for A$_x$(S)$_y$TiNCl compounds ($\alpha$-phase TiNCl partially intercalated with alkali A and optionally co-intercalated molecular species S),…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-23 Dale R. Harshman , Anthony T. Fiory

The discoveries of superconductivity in heavily boron-doped diamond (C:B) in 2004 and silicon (Si:B) in 2006 renew the interest in the superconducting state of semiconductors. Charge-carrier doping of wide-gap semiconductors leads to a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Kriener , T. Muranaka , J. Kato , Z. A. Ren , J. Akimitsu , Y. Maeno

Since the discovery of superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates RNiO$_2$ (R=La, Pr, Nd), great research efforts have been paid to unveil its underlying superconducting mechanism. However, the physical origin of the intriguing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-20 T. Y. Xie , Z. Liu , Chao Cao , Z. F. Wang , J. L. Yang , W. Zhu