This review considers unusual effects in superconductor-ferromagnet structures, in
particular, the triplet component of the condensate generated in those systems. This …

This review presents recent developments in the understanding of how impurities influence
the electronic states in the bulk properties of superconductors. The focus is on …

The transport of a small amount of liquid on a solid is not a simple process, owing to the
nature of the contact between the two phases. Setting a liquid droplet in motion requires non …

We propose an easy-to-build easy-to-detect scheme for realizing Majorana fermions at the
ends of a chain of magnetic atoms on the surface of a superconductor. Model calculations …

Although the crystal structures of the copper oxide high-temperature superconductors are
complex and diverse, they all contain some crystal planes consisting of only copper and …

Magnetic and superconducting interactions couple electrons together to form complex states
of matter. We show that, at the atomic scale, both types of interactions can coexist and …

In materials with strong local Coulomb interactions, simple defects such as atomic
substitutions strongly affect both macroscopic and local properties of the system. A …

In superconductors, magnetic impurities induce a pair-breaking potential for Cooper pairs,
which locally affects the Bogoliubov quasiparticles and gives rise to Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR …

The present topical review focuses on recent advances concerning an intriguing
phenomenon in condensed matter physics, the scattering of conduction electrons at the …

The newly discovered alkali-doped iron selenide superconductors, not only reach a
superconducting transition temperature as high as 32 K, but also exhibit unique …