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We model the newly predicted high-$T_c$ superconducting candidates constructed by corner-shared trigonal bipyramidal complexes with an effective three-orbital tight-banding Hamiltonian and investigate the pairing symmetry of their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-11 Chen Lu , Li-Da Zhang , Xianxin Wu , Fan Yang , Jiangping Hu

We investigate the emergence of superconducting phases, both with zero and finite Cooper-pair center of mass momenta, in recently proposed unconventional $p$-wave magnets. As a consequence, we find that, while these magnetic phases are in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-16 Igor de M. Froldi , Hermann Freire

Understanding the emergence of unconventional superconductivity, where the order parameter deviates from simple isotropic s-wave pairing, is a central puzzle in condensed matter physics. Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), though…

Metallic transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), consisting of H-NbSe$_2$, H-NbS$_2$, H-TaSe$_2$ and H-TaS$_2$, remain superconducting down to a thickness of a single layer. In these materials, thickness affects a variety of properties,…

We investigate proximity-induced superconductivity in monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) in the presence of an externally generated exchange field. A variety of superconducting order parameters is found to emerge from the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-04-11 M. A. Rahimi , A. G. Moghaddam , C. Dykstra , M. Governale , U. Zülicke

Epitaxial bilayer films of Bi(110) and Ni host a time-reversal symmetry (TRS) breaking superconducting order with an unexpectedly high transition temperature $T_c = 4.1$ K. Using time-domain THz spectroscopy, we measure the low energy…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-01-10 Prashant Chauhan , Fahad Mahmood , Di Yue , Peng-Chao Xu , Xiaofeng Jin , N. P. Armitage

We investigate the macroscopic effects of charge density waves (CDW) and superconductivity in layered superconducting systems with broken lattice inversion symmetry (allowing for piezoelectricity) such as two dimensional (2D) transition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Uchoa , A. H. Castro Neto , G. G. Cabrera

We investigate the superconducting properties of Sc$_{5}$Co$_{4}$Si$_{10}$ using low-temperature resistivity, magnetization, heat capacity, and muon-spin rotation and relaxation ($\mu$SR) measurements. We find that Sc$_{5}$Co$_{4}$Si$_{10}$…

The Kagome lattice exhibits rich quantum phenomena owing to its unique geometric properties. Appealing realizations are the Kagome metals AV$_3$Sb$_5$ (A = K, Rb, Cs), where unconventional charge density wave (CDW) is intertwined with…

A variety of experimental observations in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide superconductors with Ising spin-orbit coupling suggest the presence of an unconventional superconducting pairing mechanism. Some of these experiments…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-05 Subhojit Roy , Andreas Kreisel , Brian M. Andersen , Shantanu Mukherjee

Recently it has been proposed that a unitary topological mirror symmetry can stabilize multiple zero energy Majorana fermion modes in one dimensional (1D) time reversal (TR) invariant topological superconductors. Here we establish an exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Eugene Dumitrescu , Gargee Sharma , Jay D. Sau , Sumanta Tewari

The superconducting state and mechanism are among the least understood phenomena in twisted graphene systems. For instance, recent tunneling experiments indicate a transition between nodal and gapped pairing with electron filling, which is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-17 Maine Christos , Subir Sachdev , Mathias S. Scheurer

Loop currents have been proposed in various superconductors and recently confirmed in kagome materials, raising a fundamental question regarding their intrinsic connection to superconductivity. Here, we study a sign-problem-free bilayer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-27 Zenghui Fan , Runyu Ma , Stefano Chesi , Congjun Wu , Tianxing Ma

The multipocket Fermi surfaces of iron-based superconductors promote pairing states with both s_{+-}-wave and d_{x^2-y^2}-wave symmetry. We argue that the competition between these two order parameters could lead to a time-reversal-symmetry…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 Christian Platt , Ronny Thomale , Carsten Honerkamp , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Werner Hanke

An unconventional pairing mechanism in the heavy-fermion material $\mathrm{URu_{2}Si_{2}}$ is studied. We propose a mixed singlet-triplet $d$-density wave to be the hidden-order state in $\mathrm{URu_{2}Si_{2}}$. The exotic order is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-20 Chen-Hsuan Hsu , Sudip Chakravarty

There is considerable evidence that the superconducting state of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ breaks time reversal symmetry. In the experiments showing time reversal symmetry breaking its onset temperature, $T_\text{TRSB}$, is generally found to match the…

The kagome metal CsV$_{3}$Sb$_{5}$ features an unusual competition between the charge-density-wave (CDW) order and superconductivity. Evidence for time-reversal symmetry breaking (TRSB) inside the CDW phase has been accumulating. Hence, the…

We discuss the phase diagram and phase transitions in $U(1)\times \groupZ{2}$ three-band superconductors with broken time reversal symmetry. We find that beyond mean field approximation and for sufficiently strong frustration of interband…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-10-24 Troels Bojesen , Egor Babaev , Asle Sudbø

We study theoretically a model for twin boundaries in superconductors with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, which can be relevant to both three-dimensional noncentrosymmetric tetragonal crystals and two-dimensional gated superconductors such as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 Michael Achermann , Titus Neupert , Emiko Arahata , Manfred Sigrist

CaSb$_2$ is a bulk superconductor and a topological semimetal, making it a great platform for realizing topological superconductivity. In this work, we investigate the superconducting upper and lower critical field anisotropy using magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-31 M. Oudah , Y. Cai , M. V. De Toro Sanchez , J. Bannies , M. C. Aronson , K. M. Kojima , D. A. Bonn