Weyl and Dirac semimetals in three-dimensional solids

NP Armitage, EJ Mele, A Vishwanath - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
Weyl and Dirac semimetals are three-dimensional phases of matter with gapless electronic
excitations that are protected by topology and symmetry. As three-dimensional analogs of …

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 …

Field-free superconducting diode effect in noncentrosymmetric superconductor/ferromagnet multilayers

H Narita, J Ishizuka, R Kawarazaki, D Kan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The diode effect is fundamental to electronic devices and is widely used in rectifiers and ac–
dc converters. At low temperatures, however, conventional semiconductor diodes possess a …

Spin-polarized supercurrents for spintronics: a review of current progress

M Eschrig - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
During the past 15 years a new field has emerged, which combines superconductivity and
spintronics, with the goal to pave a way for new types of devices for applications combining …

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 …

Giant Rashba-type spin splitting in bulk BiTeI

K Ishizaka, MS Bahramy, H Murakawa, M Sakano… - Nature materials, 2011 - nature.com
There has been increasing interest in phenomena emerging from relativistic electrons in a
solid, which have a potential impact on spintronics and magnetoelectrics. One example is …

Classification of topological insulators and superconductors in three spatial dimensions

AP Schnyder, S Ryu, A Furusaki, AWW Ludwig - Physical Review B …, 2008 - APS
We systematically study topological phases of insulators and superconductors (or
superfluids) in three spatial dimensions. We find that there exist three-dimensional (3D) …

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 …

Spontaneous skyrmion ground states in magnetic metals

UK Roessler, AN Bogdanov, C Pfleiderer - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Since the 1950s, Heisenberg and others have addressed the problem of how to explain the
appearance of countable particles in continuous fields. Stable localized field configurations …

Proximity effects in superconductor-ferromagnet heterostructures

AI Buzdin - Reviews of modern physics, 2005 - APS
The proximity effect at superconductor-ferromagnet interfaces produces damped oscillatory
behavior of the Cooper pair wave function within the ferromagnetic medium. This is …