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Weak impurity scattering produces a narrow band with a finite density of states near the phase difference $\phi =\pi$ in the mid-gap energy spectrum of a macroscopic superconducting weak link. The equivalent distribution of transmission…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 N. B. Kopnin

We show that chiral superconductivity can be stabilized by hole doping a Chern ferromagnet. Performing exact diagonalization and density-matrix-renormalization-group calculations on the repulsive Kane-Mele-Hubbard model at hole doping…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-03 Miguel Gonçalves , Kun Yang , Shi-Zeng Lin

We study the properties of superconductor in presence of a finite concentration of repulsive centers. The superconductor is described by the negative $U$ Hubbard model while repulsive centers are treated as randomly distributed impurities…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Grzegorz Litak , Mariusz Krawiec

We theoretically study bound states generated by magnetic impurities within conventional $s$-wave superconductors, both analytically and numerically. In determining the effect of the hybridization of two such bound states on the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-23 Silas Hoffman , Jelena Klinovaja , Tobias Meng , Daniel Loss

Using one-dimensional spin-orbital model as a typical example of quantum spin systems with richer symmetries, we study the effect of an isolated impurity on its low energy dynamics in the gapless phase through bosonization and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Yu-Wen Lee , Yu-Li Lee

When subject to a weak magnetic impurity distribution, the order parameter and quasi-particle energy gap of a weakly disordered bulk s-wave superconductor are suppressed. In the Born scattering limit, recent investigations have shown that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Francesca M. Marchetti , B. D. Simons

Recent works have proved the existence of symmetry-protected edge states in certain one-dimensional topological band insulators and superconductors at the gap-closing points which define quantum phase transitions between two topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Oleksandr Balabanov , Daniel Erkensten , Henrik Johannesson

The Kondo effect in superconductors is frequently investigated using the local quasiparticle density of states as sole bath characteristics, i.e., the presence of anomalous propagators is ignored. Here we point out that this treatment is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Lars Fritz , Matthias Vojta

The long disputed issue of the limiting value of quasiparticle density of states $\r(0) = \r (\e \to 0)$ in a \emph{d-}wave superconductor with impurities (\emph{vs} its linear vanishing, $\r_0(\e) \propto |\e|/\D$, near the nodal point $\e…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. G. Pogorelov , M. C. Santos , V. M. Loktev

The impurity effects are studied for the BiS_{2}- layered superconductors based on a two orbital model with the Bogoliubov-de-Gennes technique. The superconducting critical temperature (T_{c}) as a function of the mpurity concentration is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-29 S. L. Liu

Phase crystals are a class of nonuniform superconducting ground states characterized by spontaneous phase gradients of the superconducting order parameter. These phase gradients nonlocally drive periodic currents and magnetic fields, thus…

We study states in the superconducting gap induced by magnetic impurities using self-consistent quantum Monte Carlo with maximum entropy and formally exact analytic continuation methods. The magnetic impurity susceptibility has different…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Woonki Chung , Mark Jarrell

We investigate the phase diagram of dirty two-band superconductors. This paper primarily focuses on the properties and observability of the time-reversal symmetry-breaking $s+is$ superconducting states, which can be generated in two-band…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-01 Mihail Silaev , Julien Garaud , Egor Babaev

Chiral $d$-wave superconductivity has been proposed in a number of different materials, but characteristic experimental fingerprints have been largely lacking. We show that quadruply quantized coreless vortices are prone to form and offer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-09 Patric Holmvall , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Signatures of unconventional superconductivity have been recently observed in certain transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), including 4H$_b$-TaS$_2$ and monolayer 2H-NbSe$_2$. While the pairing channel remains unknown, it has been argued…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-03 Miguel-Ángel Sánchez-Martínez , Daniel Muñoz-Segovia , Fernando de Juan

We demonstrate a fully integrable and reconfigurable platform for controlling quantum emission by harnessing chiral exceptional bound states in the continuum (BICs) as a higher-order non-Hermitian singularity. Our architecture employs…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-09 Jin Li , Kexun Wu , Qi Hao , Yan Chen , Jiawei Wang

Topological insulators are typically characterized by particularly stable properties, such as global invariants, and can be identified by probing their robust surface states. A recently discovered novel form of band topology, delicate…

We analyze the superconducting instabilities in the vicinity of the quantum-critical point of an inversion symmetry breaking order. We first show that the fluctuations of the inversion symmetry breaking order lead to two degenerate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-29 Yuxuan Wang , Gil Young Cho , Taylor L. Hughes , Eduardo Fradkin

The electronic structure of cuprate superconductors is studied within the kinetic energy driven superconducting mechanism in the presence of the out-of-plane impurities. With increasing the impurity concentration, although both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-08-18 Zhi Wang , Shiping Feng

We study critical phenomena associated with a spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in current-driven non-equilibrium steady states by using holography. We find that the critical exponents $(\gamma, \nu)$ at the tricritical point are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-26 Masataka Matsumoto , Shin Nakamura