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Experimental evidence suggests that the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state may be realized in the unconventional, heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn$_5$. We present a self-consistent calculation of the field versus temperature…
In the heavy-fermion materials CeCoIn$_5$ and UBe$_{13}$, the superconducting order parameter is coupled to flucutating magnetization of the uncompensated part of the localized $f$-moments. We find that this coupling decreases the…
We have studied the distinctive features of the Fulde-Ferrel-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) instability and phase transitions in two--dimensional (2D) mesoscopic superconductors placed in magnetic field of arbitrary orientation and rotating…
The Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state is examined in quasi-one-dimensional s-wave and d-wave superconductors with particular attention paid to the effect of the Fermi-surface anisotropy. The upper critical field $H_{c2}(T)$ is…
We demonstrate that the vortex state in the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) phase may be very different depending on the field orientation relative to the crystalline axes. We calculate numerically the upper critical field near the…
We report $^{115}$In nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements of the heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn$_5$ in the vicinity of the superconducting critical field $H_{c2}$ for a magnetic field applied perpendicular to the $\hat…
A conventional superconducting state may be replaced by another dissipationless state hosting Cooper pairs with a finite momentum, leaving thermodynamic footprints for such a phase transition. Recently, a novel type of finite momentum…
Symmetry breaking in a layered superconductor with Ising spin-orbit coupling has offered an opportunity to realize unconventional superconductivity. To be more specific, orbital Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state, exhibiting…
The Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state is an exotic superconducting phase formed by Cooper pairs with finite center-of-mass momentum $q$. On theoretical grounds, the superconducting order parameter in the FFLO state is spatially…
In ultracold Fermi gases, the effect of spin-imbalance on superfluidity has been the subject of intense study. One of the reasons for this is that spin-imbalance frustrates the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superfluid pairing mechanism,…
We examine the effect of classical magnetic fluctuations on the phase diagram of paramagneticallylimited two-dimensional superconductors under a Zeeman magnetic field. We derive the free energy expansion in powers of the superconducting…
The Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) phase is an unconventional superconducting state found under the influence of strong Zeeman field. This phase is identified by finite center-of-mass momenta in the Cooper pairs, causing the…
We show that nonuniform superconductors of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) type conduct electric current in the way which is very different from the usual case. We discuss both equilibrium and nonequilibrium properties using a…
A Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnkov (FFLO) state was previously reported in the quasi-2D heavy fermion CeCoIn5 when a magnetic field was applied parallel to the ab-plane. Here, we conduct 115^In NMR studies of this material in a PERPENDICULAR…
We study the Fulde-Ferrel-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) superconducting state in the disordered systems. We analyze the microscopic model, in which the d-wave superconductivity is stabilized near the antiferromagnetic quantum critical point,…
Motivated by a realization of imbalanced Feshbach-resonant atomic Fermi gases, we formulate a low-energy theory of the Fulde-Ferrell and the Larkin-Ovchinnikov (LO) states and use it to analyze fluctuations, stability, and phase transitions…
Iron-base superconductors exhibits features of systems where the Fulde-Ferrel-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) phase, a superconducting state with non-zero total momentum of Cooper pairs, is actively sought. Experimental and theoretical evidence…
Increasingly intricate phase diagrams in new classes of superconductors host fascinating interactions between superconductivity, diverse quantum phases, and quantum critical dynamics. The native superfluids, however, often exhibit much…
We report the analysis of fluctuation conductivity (FLC) and pseudogap (D*) in Fe-based superconductor SmFeAsO0.85 with Tc = 55 K derived from resistivity experiments. In the FLC analysis distinct 2D-3D (MT-AL) crossover typical for…
Angular dependent magnetothermal conductivity experiments on CeCoIn_5 indicate that this compound is a d-wave superconductor. In this study, the low-temperature behavior of the upper critical field is measured in a single crystal of…