Superconductivity and local inversion-symmetry breaking

MH Fischer, M Sigrist, DF Agterberg… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Inversion and time reversal are essential symmetries for the structure of Cooper pairs in
superconductors. The loss of one or both leads to modifications to this structure and can …

Topological superconductors: a review

M Sato, Y Ando - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This review elaborates pedagogically on the fundamental concept, basic theory, expected
properties, and materials realizations of topological superconductors. The relation between …

Nearly ferromagnetic spin-triplet superconductivity

S Ran, C Eckberg, QP Ding, Y Furukawa, T Metz… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Spin-triplet superconductors potentially host topological excitations that are of interest for
quantum information processing. We report the discovery of spin-triplet superconductivity in …

Field-induced transition within the superconducting state of CeRh2As2

S Khim, JF Landaeta, J Banda, N Bannor, M Brando… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Materials with multiple superconducting phases are rare. Here, we report the discovery of
two-phase unconventional superconductivity in CeRh2As2. Using thermodynamic probes …

Multicomponent superconducting order parameter in UTe2

IM Hayes, DS Wei, T Metz, J Zhang, YS Eo, S Ran… - Science, 2021 - science.org
An unconventional superconducting state was recently discovered in uranium ditelluride
(UTe2), in which spin-triplet superconductivity emerges from the paramagnetic normal state …

Topological crystalline insulators and topological superconductors: From concepts to materials

Y Ando, L Fu - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2015 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we discuss recent progress in the explorations of topological materials
beyond topological insulators; specifically, we focus on topological crystalline insulators and …

Superconductivity in iron compounds

GR Stewart - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
Kamihara and coworkers' report of superconductivity at T c= 26 K in fluorine-doped
LaFeAsO inspired a worldwide effort to understand the nature of the superconductivity in this …

Colloquium: Spin-orbit effects in superconducting hybrid structures

M Amundsen, J Linder, JWA Robinson, I Žutić… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) relates to the interaction between an electron's motion and its spin
and is ubiquitous in solid-state systems. Although the effect of SOC in normal-state …

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 …

Chiral superconductors

C Kallin, J Berlinsky - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Chiral superconductivity is a striking quantum phenomenon in which an unconventional
superconductor spontaneously develops an angular momentum and lowers its free energy …