Classification of electronic nematicity in three-dimensional crystals and quasicrystals

M Hecker, A Rastogi, DF Agterberg, RM Fernandes - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Electronic nematic order has been reported in a rich landscape of materials, encompassing
not only a range of intertwined correlated and topological phenomena but also different …

Cascade of vestigial orders in two-component superconductors: Nematic, ferromagnetic, -wave charge-, and -wave charge- states

M Hecker, R Willa, J Schmalian, RM Fernandes - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Electronically ordered states that break multiple symmetries can melt in multiple stages,
similarly to liquid crystals. In a partially melted phase, known as vestigial phase, a bilinear …

Machine learning search for stable binary Sn alloys with Na, Ca, Cu, Pd, and Ag

A Thorn, D Gochitashvili, S Kharabadze… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We present our findings of a large-scale screening for new synthesizable materials in five M–
Sn binaries, M= Na, Ca, Cu, Pd, and Ag. The focus on these systems was motivated by the …

Non-trivial band topology in the superconductor AuSn4: a first principle study

NK Karn, MM Sharma, VPS Awana - … Science and Technology, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Topological semimetals such as Weyl or Dirac semimetal with superconductivity have
emerged as a new class of topological materials to realize and study Majorana Fermion …

Broken time-reversal symmetry in the cubic skutterudite-like superconductor

A Kataria, JAT Verezhak, O Prakash, RK Kushwaha… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The microscopic properties of the superconducting cubic skutterudite-like material Y 3 Ru 4
Ge 13 are investigated using muon spin relaxation and rotation (μ SR) measurements. Zero …

Chiral Higgs mode in nematic superconductors

H Uematsu, T Mizushima, A Tsuruta, S Fujimoto… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Nematic superconductivity with spontaneously broken rotation symmetry has recently been
reported in doped topological insulators, M x Bi 2 Se 3 (M= Cu, Sr, Nb). Here we show that …

Evidence of a topological edge state in a superconducting nonsymmorphic nodal-line semimetal

LX Xu, YYY **a, S Liu, YW Li, LY Wei, HY Wang… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Topological materials host fascinating low dimensional gapless states at the boundary. As a
prominent example, helical topological edge states (TESs) of two-dimensional topological …

Role of electromagnetic gauge-field fluctuations in the selection between chiral and nematic superconductivity

V Gali, RM Fernandes - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Motivated by the observation of nematic superconductivity in several systems, we revisit the
problem of the leading pairing instability of two-component unconventional superconductors …

Two-fold anisotropic superconducting state in topological superconductor Sn4Au

MM Sharma, G Gurjar, S Patnaik… - Europhysics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Here we report the anisotropic magnetotransport properties in the superconducting state of a
Sn 4 Au single crystal. The Sn 4 Au single crystal is synthesized through an easy melt …

On the existence of nematic-superconducting states in the Ginzburg–Landau regime

M De Leo, JP Borgna, DG Ovalle - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2024 - Elsevier
In this article, we investigate the existence of nematic-superconducting states in the
Ginzburg–Landau regime, both analytically and numerically. From the configurations …