Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of high-temperature superconductors

Ø Fischer, M Kugler, I Maggio-Aprile, C Berthod… - Reviews of Modern …, 2007 - APS
Tunneling spectroscopy has played a central role in the experimental verification of the
microscopic theory of superconductivity in classical superconductors. Initial attempts to apply …

Symmetry and topology in superconductors–odd-frequency pairing and edge states–

Y Tanaka, M Sato, N Nagaosa - Journal of the Physical Society of …, 2011 - journals.jps.jp
Superconductivity is a phenomenon where the macroscopic quantum coherence appears
due to the pairing of electrons. This offers a fascinating arena to study the physics of …

Three-Dimensional Charge Density Wave and Surface-Dependent Vortex-Core States in a Kagome Superconductor

Z Liang, X Hou, F Zhang, W Ma, P Wu, Z Zhang, F Yu… - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
The transition-metal-based kagome metals provide a versatile platform for correlated
topological phases hosting various electronic instabilities. While superconductivity is rare in …

Majorana zero mode detected with spin selective Andreev reflection in the vortex of a topological superconductor

HH Sun, KW Zhang, LH Hu, C Li, GY Wang, HY Ma… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Recently, theory has predicted a Majorana zero mode (MZM) to induce spin selective
Andreev reflection (SSAR), a novel magnetic property which can be used to detect the MZM …

The flux-line lattice in superconductors

EH Brandt - Reports on Progress in Physics, 1995 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic flux can penetrate a type-II superconductor in the form of Abrikosov vortices (also
called flux lines, flux tubes, or fluxons) each carrying a quantum of magnetic flux phi 0= h/2e …

Experimental Detection of a Majorana Mode in the core of a Magnetic Vortex inside a Topological Insulator-Superconductor Heterostructure

JP Xu, MX Wang, ZL Liu, JF Ge, X Yang, C Liu, ZA Xu… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
Majorana fermions have been intensively studied in recent years for their importance to both
fundamental science and potential applications in topological quantum computing. They are …

Tunnelling effects on surface bound states inunconventional superconductors

S Kashiwaya, Y Tanaka - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent studies on high-T c superconductors have aroused new interest in tunnelling effects
in unconventional superconductors. Unlike in conventional s-wave superconductors, the d …

Evidence of topological boundary modes with topological nodal-point superconductivity

AK Nayak, A Steinbok, Y Roet, J Koo, G Margalit… - Nature physics, 2021 - nature.com
Topological superconductors are an essential component for topologically protected
quantum computation and information processing. Although signatures of topological …

Robust and Clean Majorana Zero Mode in the Vortex Core of High-Temperature Superconductor

Q Liu, C Chen, T Zhang, R Peng, YJ Yan, CHP Wen… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
The Majorana fermion, which is its own antiparticle and obeys non-Abelian statistics, plays a
critical role in topological quantum computing. It can be realized as a bound state at zero …

Odd-frequency superconductivity

J Linder, AV Balatsky - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2019 - APS
This article reviews odd-frequency (odd-ω) pairing with a focus on superconducting systems.
Since Berezinskii introduced the concept of odd-frequency order in 1974 it has been viewed …