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Most superconductors have an isotropic, single component order parameter, and are well described by the BCS theory for superconductivity. Unconventional, multiple components superconductors are exceptionally rare and are much less…
Unconventional superconductivity in Sr$_{2}$RuO$_{4}$ has been intensively studied for decades. The origin and nature of the pairing continues to be widely debated, in particular, the possibility of a triplet origin of Cooper pairs.…
Motivated by the recent resurgence of interest in topological superconductivity, we study in this paper superconducting pairing instabilities of the hole-doped Rashba-Hubbard model on the square lattice with first- and second-neighbor…
We present a unifying picture of the magnetic in-plane anisotropies of two-dimensional superconductors based on transition metal dichalcogenides. The symmetry considerations are first applied to constrain the form of the conductivity…
The superconducting transition temperature, Tc, of the SrTiO3/LaAlO3 interface was varied by the electric field effect. The anisotropy of the upper critical field and the normal state magneto-transport were studied as a function of gate…
Transverse-field muon spin rotation measurements in the vortex-lattice mixed state of the heavy-fermion (HF) superconductor PrOs4Sb12 yield a temperature dependence of the penetration depth indicative of an isotropic or nearly isotropic…
We study the symmetry and strength of the superconducting pairing in a two-orbital t-J1-J2-K model for iron pnictides using the salve boson mean-field theory. We show that the nearest-neighbor biquadratic interaction -K (S_i * S_j)^2…
We have observed an unexpected enhancement of the lower critical field $H_{c1}(T)$ and the critical current $I_{c}(T)$ deep in the superconducting state below $T \approx 0.6$ K ($T/T_{c} \approx 0.3$) in the filled skutterudite heavy…
Motivated by recent experimental findings, we have developed a theory of the superconducting state for 2D metals without inversion symmetry modeling the geometry of a surface superconducting layer in a field-effect-transistor or near the…
By measuring the superconducting diamagnetic moments for an underdoped and an overdoped La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4 single crystal with equal qualities and roughly equal transition temperatures, it is found that the underdoped sample has only one…
We report Sb-NQR results which evidence a heavy-fermion (HF) behavior and an unconventional superconducting (SC) property in the filled-skutterudite compound PrOs_4Sb_12 revealing a SC transition temperature T_c=1.85 K. The temperature (T)…
Even-parity interorbital spin-triplet pairing emerges as an intriguing candidate in multiorbital superconductors with significant Hund's and spin-orbit coupling. Within such a state, the pairing is dominated by the intraband…
We report on muon spin relaxation measurements of the 4f^2-based heavy-fermion superconductor filled-skutterudite PrOs4Sb12. The results reveal the spontaneous appearance of static internal magnetic fields below the superconducting…
We have studied the superconducting state of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ under a magnetic field parallel to the superconducting plane. We show that due to a weak spin-orbit coupling, non-unitary k$_y(\hat{\mathbf{z}}-i\alpha\hat{\mathbf{y}})$ state is…
We study spin-orbital coupling effect on the Josephson current through a superconductor (SC) heterojunction, consisting of two s-wave superconductors and a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) layer between them. The Rashba-type (RSOC)…
Despite of the low transition temperature, the recently identified superconductor CeRh$_2$As$_2$ has garnered significant interest due to its unique symmetry and magnetic characteristics, particularly the existence of two superconducting…
A three-component Ginzburg-Landau theory for a triplet pairing is developed to understand the observed multiple phases in a new superconductor UTe$_2$ under pressure. Near the critical pressure $P_{\rm cr}$=0.2GPa where all components are…
A weak-coupling formalism for superconducting states possessing both singlet (even parity) and triplet (odd parity) components of the order parameter in centrosymmetric crystals is developed. It is shown that the quasiparticle energy…
The oxygen O2p_sigma and copper Cu4s and Cu3d_x^2-y^2 orbitals are involved in a simple LCAO model for determination of the conduction band and the oxygen-oxygen hopping is considered as a small parameter with respect to the transition…
We report the observation of superconductivity with multiple magnetic ordering and Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling in a layered polar semimetal EuAuBi. Magnetic transition is observed at 4 K, followed by a superconducting transition at 2.2…