Muon spin spectroscopy

AD Hillier, SJ Blundell, I McKenzie, I Umegaki… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Muons are particles with a spin of ½ that can be implanted into a wide range of condensed
matter materials to act as a local probe of the surrounding atomic environment …

Unconventional superconductivity

GR Stewart - Advances in Physics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
'Conventional'superconductivity, as used in this review, refers to electron–phonon-coupled
superconducting electron pairs described by BCS theory. Unconventional superconductivity …

Time-reversal symmetry broken by charge order in

R Khasanov, D Das, R Gupta, C Mielke III… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
The recently discovered vanadium-based kagome metals AV 3 Sb 5 (A= K, Rb, Cs) exhibit
superconductivity at low temperatures and charge density wave (CDW) order at high …

Recent progress on superconductors with time-reversal symmetry breaking

SK Ghosh, M Smidman, T Shang… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Superconductivity and magnetism are adversarial states of matter. The presence of
spontaneous magnetic fields inside the superconducting state is, therefore, an intriguing …

Detection of Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in the Noncentrosymmetric Superconductor Using Muon-Spin Spectroscopy

RP Singh, AD Hillier, B Mazidian, J Quintanilla… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We have investigated the superconducting state of the noncentrosymmetric compound Re 6
Zr using magnetization, heat capacity, and muon-spin relaxation or rotation (μ SR) …

Evidence for superconductivity with broken time-reversal symmetry in locally noncentrosymmetric SrPtAs

PK Biswas, H Luetkens, T Neupert, T Stürzer… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
We report the magnetic and superconducting properties of locally noncentrosymmetric
SrPtAs obtained by muon-spin-rotation/relaxation (μ SR) measurements. Zero-field μ SR …

Unconventional superconductivity in heavy-fermion compounds

BD White, JD Thompson, MB Maple - Physica C: superconductivity and its …, 2015 - Elsevier
Over the past 35 years, research on unconventional superconductivity in heavy-fermion
systems has evolved from the surprising observations of unprecedented superconducting …

Unconventional Superconductivity in Revealed by Muon Spin Relaxation: Introducing a New Family of Noncentrosymmetric Superconductor That Breaks Time …

JAT Barker, D Singh, A Thamizhavel, AD Hillier… - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
The superconductivity of the noncentrosymmetric compound La 7 Ir 3 is investigated using
muon spin rotation and relaxation. Zero-field measurements reveal the presence of …

Nonunitary Triplet Pairing in the Centrosymmetric Superconductor

AD Hillier, J Quintanilla, B Mazidian, JF Annett… - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
Muon spin rotation and relaxation experiments on the centrosymmetric intermetallic
superconductor LaNiGa 2 are reported. The appearance of spontaneous magnetic fields …

Effect of physical and chemical pressure on the superconductivity of cage-type compound

C **ong, C Pei, Q Wang, J Wu, Y Zhao, Y Jiang, C Li… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Lu 5 Rh 6 Sn 18 is one of the cage-type superconductors with superconducting transition
temperature T c= 4.12 K. Here we investigate the effect of pressure on the superconductivity …