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 …

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) …

Superconductivity in the Heusler family of intermetallics

T Klimczuk, CH Wang, K Gofryk, F Ronning… - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
Several physical properties of the superconducting Heusler compounds, focusing on two
systems (Sc, Y, Lu) Pd 2 Sn and A Pd 2 M, where A= Hf, Zr and M= Al, In, are summarized …

Noncentrosymmetric superconductor with a bulk three-dimensional Dirac cone gapped by strong spin-orbit coupling

MN Ali, QD Gibson, T Klimczuk, RJ Cava - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
The layered, noncentrosymmetric heavy element PbTaSe 2 is found to be superconducting.
We report its electronic properties accompanied by electronic-structure calculations. Specific …

Time-reversal symmetry breaking in Re-based superconductors

T Shang, M Smidman, SK Ghosh, C Baines, LJ Chang… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
To trace the origin of time-reversal symmetry breaking (TRSB) in Re-based
superconductors, we performed comparative muon-spin rotation and relaxation (μ SR) …

Sc–Zr–Nb–Rh–Pd and Sc–Zr–Nb–Ta–Rh–Pd high-entropy alloy superconductors on a CsCl-type lattice

K Stolze, J Tao, FO Von Rohr, T Kong… - Chemistry of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We have synthesized previously unreported high-entropy alloys (HEAs) in the pentanary
(ScZrNb) 1–x [RhPd] x and hexanary (ScZrNbTa) 1–x [RhPd] x systems. The materials have …

TaRh2B2 and NbRh2B2: Superconductors with a chiral noncentrosymmetric crystal structure

EM Carnicom, W Xie, T Klimczuk, J Lin, K Górnicka… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
It is a fundamental truth in solid compounds that the physical properties follow the symmetry
of the crystal structure. Nowhere is the effect of symmetry more pronounced than in the …

Single photon detection in NbRe superconducting microstrips

M Ejrnaes, C Cirillo, D Salvoni, F Chianese… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Detection of single infrared photons in superconducting microstrips of 4 nm thick disordered
Nb 0.15 Re 0.85 has been investigated. Microstrips with a critical temperature of 5.15 K and …

Time-reversal symmetry breaking in Re-based superconductors: Recent developments

T Shang, T Shiroka - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In the recent search for unconventional-and topological superconductivity,
noncentrosymmetric superconductors (NCSCs) rank among the most promising candidate …

Superconducting and normal-state properties of the noncentrosymmetric superconductor

JAT Barker, BD Breen, R Hanson, AD Hillier, MR Lees… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
The noncentrosymmetric superconductor, Re 3 Ta, has been characterized in detail with a
combination of magnetization, heat capacity, and electrical resistivity measurements, as well …