Using gap symmetry and structure to reveal the pairing mechanism in Fe-based superconductors

PJ Hirschfeld - Comptes Rendus Physique, 2016 - Elsevier
I review theoretical ideas and implications of experiments for the gap structure and symmetry
of the Fe-based superconductors. Unlike any other class of unconventional …

High- Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in two-dimensional superconducting systems with coupled deep and quasiflat electronic bands with Van Hove …

SK Paramasivam, SP Gangadharan, MV Milošević… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
In the pursuit of higher critical temperature of superconductivity, quasiflat electronic bands
and Van Hove singularities in two dimensions (2D) have emerged as a potential approach …

Emergent phenomena in multicomponent superconductivity: an introduction to the focus issue

MV Milošević, A Perali - arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.06995, 2015 - arxiv.org
Multicomponent superconductivity is a novel quantum phenomenon in many different
superconducting materials, such as multiband ones in which different superconducting gaps …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental formation of a fractional vortex in a superconducting bi-layer

Y Tanaka, H Yamamori, T Yanagisawa, T Nishio… - … and its applications, 2018 - Elsevier
We report the experimental formation of a fractional vortex generated by using a thin
superconducting bi-layer in the form of a niobium bi-layer, observed as a magnetic flux …

Ginzburg-Landau energy of multiband superconductors with interband pairing

KV Samokhin - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We derive microscopically the Ginzburg-Landau free-energy functional for a superconductor
in which the Cooper pairs are formed not only by quasiparticles from the same band, but …

Higgs-Leggett mechanism for the elusive oscillation in Little-Parks setup of Kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5

LF Zhang, Z Wang, X Hu - Communications Physics, 2024 - nature.com
A recent Little-Parks experiment in Kagome-structured superconductor CsV3Sb5
demonstrated resistance oscillations with period ϕ 0/3= hc/6 e. Here, we perform analysis …

Stability limits of flux states in two-band superconductor rings

LR Cadorim, E Sardella, D Domínguez, J Berger - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
This study explores transitions between states with different winding number in two-band
superconducting rings. From the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations for two …

Proximity and Josephson effects in microstructures based on multiband superconductors

Y Yerin, AN Omelyanchouk - Low Temperature Physics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Emerging in the 1950s, the multiband superconductivity has been considered for a long time
as an approximate model in the form of a generalization of the BCS theory to the case of two …

Coexistence of giant Cooper pairs with a bosonic condensate and anomalous behavior of energy gaps in the BCS-BEC crossover of a two-band superfluid Fermi gas

Y Yerin, H Tajima, P Pieri, A Perali - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We investigate the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer–Bose-Einstein condensation crossover in a
two-band superfluid Fermi gas with an energy shift between the bands. When the intraband …

Frustration-driven Josephson phase dynamics

C Guarcello, L Chirolli, MT Mercaldo, F Giazotto… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The Josephson equations predict remarkable effects concerning the phase state of a
superconducting junction with an oscillating current induced by a static voltage. Whether the …