The physics of pair-density waves: cuprate superconductors and beyond

DF Agterberg, JCS Davis, SD Edkins… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
We review the physics of pair-density wave (PDW) superconductors. We begin with a
macroscopic description that emphasizes order induced by PDW states, such as charge …

Quantum spin liquid states

Y Zhou, K Kanoda, TK Ng - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
This is an introductory review of the physics of quantum spin liquid states. Quantum
magnetism is a rapidly evolving field, and recent developments reveal that the ground states …

Pauli-limit violation and re-entrant superconductivity in moiré graphene

Y Cao, JM Park, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Moiré quantum matter has emerged as a materials platform in which correlated and
topological phases can be explored with unprecedented control. Among them, magic-angle …

Observation of superconducting diode effect

F Ando, Y Miyasaka, T Li, J Ishizuka, T Arakawa… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Nonlinear optical and electrical effects associated with a lack of spatial inversion symmetry
allow direction-selective propagation and transport of quantum particles, such as photons …

Highly crystalline 2D superconductors

Y Saito, T Nojima, Y Iwasa - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Recent advances in materials fabrication have enabled the manufacturing of ordered 2D
electron systems, such as heterogeneous interfaces, atomic layers grown by molecular …

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 …

Tuning Ising superconductivity with layer and spin–orbit coupling in two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides

SC De la Barrera, MR Sinko, DP Gopalan… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Systems simultaneously exhibiting superconductivity and spin–orbit coupling are
predicted to provide a route toward topological superconductivity and unconventional …

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 …

Superconductivity protected by spin–valley locking in ion-gated MoS2

Y Saito, Y Nakamura, MS Bahramy, Y Kohama, J Ye… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Symmetry-breaking has been known to play a key role in non-centrosymmetric
superconductors with strong spin–orbit interactions (SOIs; refs,,,,,). The studies, however …

Double-Weyl phonons in transition-metal monosilicides

T Zhang, Z Song, A Alexandradinata, H Weng, C Fang… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We employed ab initio calculations to identify a class of crystalline materials of M Si (M= Fe,
Co, Mn, Re, Ru) having double-Weyl points in both their acoustic and optical phonon …