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Compensated magnetic orders that can split the spin-degeneracy of electronic bands have become a very active field of research. As opposed to spin-orbit coupling, the splitting resulting from these "altermagnets" is not a small relativistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Saurav Sachin , Mathias S. Scheurer , Constantin Schrade , Sujit Manna

Altermagnets have attracted considerable attention in recent years owing to their potential technological applications in spintronics and magnonics. Recently, a new class of spontaneous altermagnets has been theoretically predicted in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-02 Nitin Kaushal , Adarsh S. Patri , Marcel Franz

The review of recent developments in the unconventional superconductivity theory is given. In the fist part I consider the physical origin of the Kerr rotation polarization of light reflected from the surface of superconducting $Sr_2RuO_4$.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 V. P. Mineev

In this work we review the recent advances on superconducting phenomena in junctions formed by superconductors and unconventional magnets. Conventional magnets, such as ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, are characterized by broken…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-05 Yuri Fukaya , Bo Lu , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka , Jorge Cayao

This Chapter gives a brief introduction to some basic aspects metals and superconductors in crystal without inversion symmetry. In a first part we analyze some normal state properties which arise through antisymmetric spin-orbit coupling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-05-28 V. P. Mineev , M. Sigrist

This article is dedicated to the 60-th anniversary of the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics and presents a review of normal and superconducting properties of toroidal, altermagnetic, and noncentrosymmetric metals. Metals with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-05 V. P. Mineev

We show theoretically that specular Andreev reflection occurs stably at altermagnet--superconductor interfaces, which is a phenomenon that has previously been predicted only in a limited range of materials, such as Dirac/Weyl materials with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-09 Yutaro Nagae , Andreas P. Schnyder , Satoshi Ikegaya

We study the superconducting state of multi-orbital spin-orbit coupled systems in the presence of an orbitally driven inversion asymmetry assuming that the inter-orbital attraction is the dominant pairing channel. Although the inversion…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-06 Yuri Fukaya , Shun Tamura , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco

When the impurity mean free path is short, only spin-polarized Cooper pairs which are non-locally and antisymmetrically correlated in time may exist in a half-metallic ferromagnet. As a consequence, the half-metal acts as an odd-frequency…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-30 Eirik Holm Fyhn , Jacob Linder

Altermagnets are a novel class of fully spin-compensated magnetic materials that nevertheless have spin-split electronic bands, offering novel perspectives for spintronics applications. Based on a rigorous analysis of altermagnetic…

In superconductors, electrons with spin ${s=1/2}$ form Cooper pairs whose spin structure is usually singlet (${S=0}$) or triplet (${S=1}$). When the electronic structure near the Fermi level is characterized by fermions with angular…

We discuss transport properties of fully spin-polarized triplet superconductors, where only electrons of one spin component (along a certain axis) are paired. Due to the structure of the order parameter space, wherein phase and spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-20 Eyal Cornfeld , Mark S. Rudner , Erez Berg

We propose that in noncentrosymmetric superconductors with weakly asymmetric spin-orbit interaction the field-induced pair correlation between the spin-orbit split different bands ignored in previous studies yields unique effects; i.e. the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Satoshi Fujimoto

Unconventional superconductivity arising from the interplay between strong spin-orbit coupling and magnetism is an intensive area of research. One form of unconventional superconductivity arises when Cooper pairs subjected to a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Angela Q. Chen , Moon Jip Park , Stephen T. Gill , Yiran Xiao , Gregory J. MacDougall , Matthew J. Gilbert , Nadya Mason

Altermagnets are a recently discovered class of magnetic materials that combine a collinear, zero-magnetization spin structure, characteristic of antiferromagnets, with spin-split electronic bands, a hallmark of ferromagnets. This unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Rui Chen , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

Combining superconducting and magnetic materials is a promising path to generate exotic interface subgap states. In this regard, altermagnetism is particularly interesting because it lifts spin degeneracy while providing tailored anisotropy…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-11 Bo Lu , Phillip Mercebach , Pablo Burset , Keiji Yada , Jorge Cayao , Yukio Tanaka , Yuri Fukaya

In this thesis, we theoretically examine the pairing mechanisms and the identification of the pairing symmetry of unconventional superconductors whose normal states are correlated, multiband, or topological. In the first part, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-20 Grgur Palle

In non-centrosymmetric superconductors, spin-orbit coupling can induce an unconventional superconducting state with a mixture of s-wave spin-singlet and p-wave spin-triplet channels, which leads to a variety of exotic phenomena, including…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-10-03 Jiabin Yu , Chao-Xing Liu

We investigate self-consistent unconventional superconductivity in a two-dimensional $d$-wave altermagnetic metal. We find that momentum-dependent altermagnetic spin splitting suppresses opposite-spin singlet pairing and stabilizes highly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-19 Lie Yuan , Junkang Huang , Yu-Xuan Li , Tao Zhou

Recent experiments found superconductivity in nonmagnetic MnB$_4$ with a high critical temperature ($T_{c}$) reaching 14 K at 158 GPa. However, ab initio calculations of the electron-phonon coupling predict a $T_{c}$ below 1 K, suggesting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-24 Danylo Radevych , Mercè Roig , Daniel F. Agterberg , Igor I. Mazin