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 …

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 …

Nature of Unconventional Pairing in the Kagome Superconductors ()

X Wu, T Schwemmer, T Müller, A Consiglio… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
The recent discovery of AV 3 Sb 5 (A= K, Rb, Cs) has uncovered an intriguing arena for
exotic Fermi surface instabilities in a kagome metal. Among them, superconductivity is found …

Topological insulator materials

Y Ando - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2013 - journals.jps.jp
Topological insulators represent a new quantum state of matter which is characterized by
peculiar edge or surface states that show up due to a topological character of the bulk wave …

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 …

Detection of a pair density wave state in UTe2

Q Gu, JP Carroll, S Wang, S Ran, C Broyles… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Spin-triplet topological superconductors should exhibit many unprecedented electronic
properties, including fractionalized electronic states relevant to quantum information …

Topology of crystalline insulators and superconductors

K Shiozaki, M Sato - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We complete a classification of topological phases and their topological defects in crystalline
insulators and superconductors. We consider topological phases and defects described by …

Majorana nanowires for topological quantum computation

P Marra - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Majorana bound states are quasiparticle excitations localized at the boundaries of a
topologically nontrivial superconductor. They are zero-energy, charge-neutral, particle–hole …

Odd-frequency superconductivity

J Linder, AV Balatsky - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2019 - APS
This article reviews odd-frequency (odd-ω) pairing with a focus on superconducting systems.
Since Berezinskii introduced the concept of odd-frequency order in 1974 it has been viewed …

Edge states and topological phases in non-Hermitian systems

K Esaki, M Sato, K Hasebe, M Kohmoto - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2011 - APS
Topological stability of the edge states is investigated for non-Hermitian systems. We
examine two classes of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians supporting real bulk eigenenergies in …