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We consider unconventional magnets with proximity-induced superconductivity and investigate the emergence of superconducting correlations by carrying out a full classification of allowed Cooper pair symmetries. In particular, we focus on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-22 Kazuki Maeda , Yuri Fukaya , Keiji Yada , Bo Lu , Yukio Tanaka , Jorge Cayao

Altermagnetic superconductors offer the possibility of exploring unconventional superconductivity, including topological states and finite-momentum superconductivity, with promising applications in spintronics and quantum information.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-22 Andrea Maiani , Rubén Seoane Souto

We uncover a new superconducting state with partial spin polarization induced by a magnetic field. This state, which we call "magnonic superconductor", lacks a conventional pairing order parameter, but is characterized instead by a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-07 Khachatur G. Nazaryan , Liang Fu

Long-range propagation of equal-spin triplet Cooper pairs typically occurs in ferromagnet/$s$-wave superconductor junctions, where net magnetization plays a crucial role. Here, we propose a fundamentally different scenario in which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-18 Chuang Li , Jin-Xing Hou , Fu-Chun Zhang , Song-Bo Zhang , Lun-Hui Hu

Altermagnetism has emerged as a third type of collinear magnetism. In contrast to standard ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, altermagnets exhibit extra even-parity wave spin order parameters resulting in a spin-splitting of electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-17 Valentin Leeb , Alexander Mook , Libor Šmejkal , Johannes Knolle

We study the response of a superconductor with a strong spin-orbit coupling on an external magnetic field. The Ginzburg-Landau free energy functional is derived microscopically for a general crystal structure, both with and without an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 K. V. Samokhin

We propose a minimal toy model for a two-dimensional altermagnet. The model unravels altermagnetic properties at a microscopic level. We find spin-split electron- and non-degenerate magnon bands with a $d$-wave symmetry. We use the model to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-22 Bjørnulf Brekke , Arne Brataas , Asle Sudbø

Stimulated by recent interest in altermagnets, a novel class of antiferromagnets with macroscopic time-reversal symmetry breaking, we investigate the coexistence of altermagnetism and superconductivity. By developing a Ginzburg--Landau…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-28 Shuntaro Sumita , Makoto Naka , Hitoshi Seo

Recent results about the coexistence of ferromagnetism and unconventional superconductivity with spin-triplet Cooper pairing are reviewed on the basis of the quasi-phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau theory. The superconductivity in the mixed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Diana V. Shopova , Dimo I. Uzunov

We show that a spontaneous magnetic moment may appear at the edge of a spin-triplet superconductor if the system allows for pairing in a subdominant channel. To unveil the microscopic mechanism behind such effect we combine numerical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-09-03 Alfonso Romano , Paola Gentile , Canio Noce , Ilya Vekhter , Mario Cuoco

The spin superconductor state is the spin-polarized triplet exciton condensate, which can be viewed as a counterpart of the charge superconductor state. As an analogy of the charge Josephson effect, the spin Josephson effect can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 W. Zeng , R. Shen

We explore the possibilities for spin-singlet superconductivity in newly discovered altermagnets. Investigating $d$-wave altermagnets, we show that finite-momentum superconductivity can easily emerge in altermagnets even though they have no…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-29 Debmalya Chakraborty , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Altermagnetism has so far mainly been understood in its even- and odd-parity forms. We show that collinear antiferromagnets with zero net magnetization can also host mixed-parity spin splitting, namely neither purely even nor purely odd in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Jin-Xin Hu , Song-Bo Zhang , Lun-Hui Hu , Zhongbo Yan

We discuss a possibility of superconductivity in the p-wave magnets. These are recently discovered materials that have zero net magnetization by symmetry and finite non-relativistic spin splitting of electron bands, like in altermagnets.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-28 Maxim Khodas , Libor Šmejkal , I. I. Mazin

Ferromagnetism and superconductivity are generally considered to be antagonistic phenomena in condensed matter physics. Here, we theoretically study the interplay between the ferromagnetic and superconducting orders in a recent discovered…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-09 Tian-Zhong Yuan , Mu-Yuan Zou , Wen-Tao Jin , Xin-Yuan Wei , Xu-Guang Xu , Wei Li

Recent $\mu$SR measurements revealed remarkable signatures of spontaneous magnetism coexisting with superconductivity in elemental rhenium. Here we provide a quantitative theory that uncovers the nature of the superconducting instability by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-12 Gábor Csire , James Annett , Jorge Quintanilla , Balázs Újfalussy

We investigate the impact of impurity scattering on superconductivity in an anisotropic multi-orbital model with spin-orbit coupling which describes the electron fluid at two-dimensional oxide interfaces. As the pairing mechanism is under…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-08-05 Mathias S. Scheurer , Mareike Hoyer , Jörg Schmalian

Superconducting materials with noncentrosymmetric lattices lacking space inversion symmetry exhibit a variety of interesting parity-breaking phenomena, including the magneto-electric effect, spin-polarized currents, helical states, and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-30 Julien Garaud , Maxim N. Chernodub , Dmitri E. Kharzeev

Recent works have predicted materials featuring bands with a large spin-splitting distinct from ferromagnetic and relativistically spin-orbit coupled systems. Materials displaying this property are known as altermagnets and feature a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-15 Chi Sun , Arne Brataas , Jacob Linder

Recent results for the coexistence of ferromagnetism and unconventional superconductivity with spin-triplet Cooper pairing are reviewed on the basis of the quasi-phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau theory. New results are reported. The results…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 D. V. Shopova , D. I. Uzunov