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Electron pairing is central to modern concepts of superconductivity, and provides a basis for the ubiquitous presence of h/2e in the theory and phenomenology. However, the lack of a consistent real-space picture of phonon-mediated pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-17 Alan M. Kadin

The structure of the Meissner effect in a current-carrying cylindrical wire with arbitrary disorder is studied using a numerical procedure that is exact within the semiclassical approximation. A distribution of currents is found that is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Sánchez-Cañizares , J. Ferrer , F. Sols

Chiral topological semimetals host multifold degenerate band crossing points under the protection of crystalline symmetries. In this paper, we suggest that the recently discovered chiral topological semimetals in space group 198, parts of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yingyi Huang , Shao-Kai Jian

We theoretically study transport properties of voltage-biased one-dimensional superconductor--normal metal--superconductor tunnel junctions with arbitrary junction transparency where the superconductors can have trivial or nontrivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 F. Setiawan , William S. Cole , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

The mechanism of the unconventional topological superconductivity (TSC) remains a long-standing issue. We investigate the quantum phase diagram of the extended $t$-$J$-$J_{\chi}$ model including spin chiral interactions on triangular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-18 Yixuan Huang , D. N. Sheng

The review is aimed at highlighting the aspects of topological superconductivity in the absence of spin-orbit interaction in two-dimensional systems with long-range non-collinear spin ordering or magnetic skyrmions. Another purpose is to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-22 A. O. Zlotnikov , M. S. Shustin , A. D. Fedoseev

We study the conductivity of a class of disordered continuum systems represented by the Swiss-cheese model, where the conducting medium is the space between randomly placed spherical holes, near the percolation threshold. This model can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Olaf Stenull , Hans-Karl Janssen

The basic stages of development of the theory of superconductivity are traced. Despite of remarkable successes of theory, the physical explanation of the phenomenon of superconductivity - of the not fading electrical current in dissipative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. L. Klimontovich

The topological superconducting state is a highly sought-after quantum state hosting topological order and Majorana excitations. In this work, we explore the mechanism to realize the topological superconductivity (TSC) in the doped Mott…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-03 Yixuan Huang , Shou-Shu Gong , D. N. Sheng

In the presence of both space and time reversal symmetries, an s-wave A1g superconducting state is usually topologically trivial. Here we demonstrate that an exception can take place in a type of nonsymmorphic lattice structures. We specify…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-17 Shengshan Qin , Chen Fang , Fu-Chun Zhang , Jiangping Hu

This paper investigates the dynamics of time-periodic Euler flows in multi-connected, planar fluid regions which are ``stirred'' by the moving boundaries. The classical Helmholtz theorem on the transport of vorticity implies that if the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Philip Boyland

We consider a two-dimensional generalization of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model which is known to possess a non-trivial topological band structure. For this model, which is characterized by a single parameter, the hopping ratio $0 \leq r\leq…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-29 Ying Wang , Gautam Rai , Stephan Haas , Anuradha Jagannathan

An array of one-dimensional conductors coupled by transverse hopping and interaction is studied with the help of a variational wave function. This wave function is devised as to account for one-dimensional correlation effects. We show that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-11-11 A. V. Rozhkov

We present a one dimensional model of electrons coupled to localized moments of spin $S\ge 1$ in which magnetism and superconductivity interplay in a nontrivial manner. This model has a non-Fermi liquid ground state of the chiral spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Andrei , E. Orignac

We analyze possible nodal superconducting phases that emerge from a doped nodal-line semimetal. We show that nodal-line superconducting phases are favored by interactions mediated by short-range ferromagnetic fluctuations or Hund's…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-08 Zhenfei Wu , Yuxuan Wang

We introduce a theoretical framework for the new concept of three-dimensional (3D) twistronics by developing a generalized Bloch band theory for 3D layered systems with a constant twist angle $\theta$ between successive layers. Our theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Fengcheng Wu , Rui-Xing Zhang , Sankar Das Sarma

For two families of four-dimensional off-shell N = 2 supersymmetric nonlinear sigma-models constructed originally in projective superspace, we develop their formulation in terms of N = 1 chiral superfields. Specifically, these theories are:…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-14 Sergei M. Kuzenko

Engineering chiral $p$-wave superconductivity in semiconductor structures offers fascinating ways to obtain and study Majorana modes in a condensed matter context. Here, we theoretically investigate chiral $p$-wave superconductivity in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 Benedikt Scharf , Igor Žutić

This paper presents a novel theory for understanding the mechanics behind non-conventional superconductors. It presents the hypothesis that non-conventional superconductors are 2D lattices of super-cells and that the superconductivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-01-20 Xuan Zhong Ni , M. H. Jiang

Motivated by the recent experimental discovery of superconductivity in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene, we investigate the pairing mechanism arising from the density-density interactions within the random-phase approximation. This approach…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-21 Qiong Qin , Congjun Wu