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 …

Crystalline color superconductors

R Anglani, R Casalbuoni, M Ciminale, N Ippolito… - Reviews of Modern …, 2014 - APS
Inhomogeneous superconductors and inhomogeneous superfluids appear in a variety of
contexts including quark matter at extreme densities, fermionic systems of cold atoms, type-II …

Finite-momentum Cooper pairing in proximitized altermagnets

SB Zhang, LH Hu, T Neupert - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Finite-momentum Cooper pairing is an unconventional form of superconductivity that is
widely believed to require finite magnetization. Altermagnetism is an emerging magnetic …

Spin-imbalance in a one-dimensional Fermi gas

Y Liao, ASC Rittner, T Paprotta, W Li, GB Partridge… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Superconductivity and magnetism generally do not coexist. Changing the relative number of
up and down spin electrons disrupts the basic mechanism of superconductivity, where …

Fulde–Ferrell–Larkin–Ovchinnikov state in heavy fermion superconductors

Y Matsuda, H Shimahara - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2007 - journals.jps.jp
The Fulde–Ferrell–Larkin–Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state is a novel superconducting state in a
strong magnetic field characterized by the formation of Cooper pairs with nonzero total …

Orbital Fulde–Ferrell–Larkin–Ovchinnikov state in an Ising superconductor

P Wan, O Zheliuk, NFQ Yuan, X Peng, L Zhang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In superconductors possessing both time and inversion symmetries, the Zeeman effect of an
external magnetic field can break the time-reversal symmetry, forming a conventional Fulde …

Calorimetric Evidence for a Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov Superconducting State <?format ?>in the Layered Organic Superconductor

R Lortz, Y Wang, A Demuer, PHM Böttger, B Bergk… - Physical review …, 2007 - APS
The specific heat of the layered organic superconductor κ-(BEDT-TTF) 2 Cu (NCS) 2, where
BEDT-TTF is bisethylenedithio-tetrathiafulvalene, has been studied in magnetic fields up to …

Evidence of Andreev bound states as a hallmark of the FFLO phase in κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2

H Mayaffre, S Krämer, M Horvatić, C Berthier… - Nature Physics, 2014 - nature.com
Superconductivity is a quantum phenomenon arising, in its simplest form, from the pairing of
fermions with opposite spin into a state with zero net momentum. Whether superconductivity …

Iron-based superconductors at high magnetic fields

A Gurevich - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
An overview of the behavior of Fe-based superconductors (FBSs) in magnetic fields is given
with the emphasis on the materials features important for pinning of vortices, critical current …

Evidence of finite-momentum pairing in a centrosymmetric bilayer

D Zhao, L Debbeler, M Kühne, S Fecher, N Gross… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
A phase characterized by a spatially modulated order parameter is counter-intuitive because
of the entropy penalty that the modulations incur. Its possible existence in superconductors …