Majorana fermions and topology in superconductors

M Sato, S Fujimoto - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2016 - journals.jps.jp
Topological superconductors are novel classes of quantum condensed phases,
characterized by topologically nontrivial structures of Cooper pairing states. On the surfaces …

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 …

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 …

Exotic superconducting states in FeSe-based materials

T Shibauchi, T Hanaguri, Y Matsuda - Journal of the Physical Society …, 2020 - journals.jps.jp
High-temperature superconductivity and a wide variety of exotic superconducting states
discovered in FeSe-based materials have been at the frontier of research on condensed …

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 …

Colloquium: Hidden order, superconductivity, and magnetism: <?format ?>The unsolved case of

JA Mydosh, PM Oppeneer - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
This Colloquium reviews the 25 year quest to understand the continuous (second-order),
mean-field-like phase transition occurring at 17.5 K in URu 2 Si 2. About ten years ago, the …

Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces in superconductors with broken time-reversal symmetry

DF Agterberg, PMR Brydon, C Timm - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
It is commonly believed that, in the absence of disorder or an external magnetic field, there
are three possible types of superconducting excitation gaps: The gap is nodeless, it has …

Rotational Symmetry Breaking in the Hidden-Order Phase of URu2Si2

R Okazaki, T Shibauchi, HJ Shi, Y Haga, TD Matsuda… - Science, 2011 - science.org
A second-order phase transition is characterized by spontaneous symmetry breaking. The
nature of the broken symmetry in the so-called “hidden-order” phase transition in the heavy …

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 …

Evidence for an Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state with segmented vortices in the BCS-BEC-crossover superconductor FeSe

S Kasahara, Y Sato, S Licciardello, M Čulo… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
We present resistivity and thermal-conductivity measurements of superconducting FeSe in
intense magnetic fields up to 35 T applied parallel to the ab plane. At low temperatures, the …