Superconductivity and spin–orbit coupling in non-centrosymmetric materials: a review

M Smidman, MB Salamon, HQ Yuan… - Reports on Progress in …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In non-centrosymmetric superconductors, where the crystal structure lacks a centre of
inversion, parity is no longer a good quantum number and an electronic antisymmetric spin …

Superconducting phases of -electron compounds

C Pfleiderer - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2009 - APS
Intermetallic compounds containing f-electron elements display a wealth of superconducting
phases, which are prime candidates for unconventional pairing with complex order …

Nodeless superconductivity in the kagome metal CsV3Sb5

W Duan, Z Nie, S Luo, F Yu, BR Ortiz, L Yin… - Science China Physics …, 2021 - Springer
The recently discovered kagome metal series A V3Sb5 (A= K, Rb, Cs) exhibits topologically
nontrivial band structures, chiral charge order and superconductivity, presenting a unique …

Robust doubly charged nodal lines and nodal surfaces in centrosymmetric systems

T Bzdušek, M Sigrist - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Weyl points in three spatial dimensions are characterized by a Z-valued charge—the Chern
number—which makes them stable against a wide range of perturbations. A set of Weyl …

Evidence for Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking <?format ?>in the Noncentrosymmetric Superconductor

AD Hillier, J Quintanilla, R Cywinski - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
Muon spin relaxation experiments on the noncentrosymmetric intermetallic superconductor
LaNiC 2 are reported. We find that the onset of superconductivity coincides with the …

Topological phases and surface flat bands in superconductors without inversion symmetry

AP Schnyder, S Ryu - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2011 - APS
We examine different topological phases in three-dimensional noncentrosymmetric
superconductors with time-reversal symmetry by using three different types of topological …

Protected boundary states in gapless topological phases

S Matsuura, PY Chang, AP Schnyder… - New Journal of …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We systematically study gapless topological phases of (semi-) metals and nodal
superconductors described by Bloch and Bogoliubov–de Gennes Hamiltonians. Using K …

Topological surface states in nodal superconductors

AP Schnyder, PMR Brydon - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Topological superconductors have become a subject of intense research due to their
potential use for technical applications in device fabrication and quantum information …

Beyond triplet: Unconventional superconductivity in a spin-3/2 topological semimetal

H Kim, K Wang, Y Nakajima, R Hu, S Ziemak… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
In all known fermionic superfluids, Cooper pairs are composed of spin-1/2 quasi-particles
that pair to form either spin-singlet or spin-triplet bound states. The “spin” of a Bloch electron …

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) …