Even odder after twenty-three years: the superconducting order parameter puzzle of Sr2RuO4

AP Mackenzie, T Scaffidi, CW Hicks, Y Maeno - npj Quantum Materials, 2017 - nature.com
In this short review, we aim to provide a topical update on the status of efforts to understand
the superconductivity of Sr2RuO4. We concentrate on efforts to identify a superconducting …

Recent progress on superconductors with time-reversal symmetry breaking

SK Ghosh, M Smidman, T Shang… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Superconductivity and magnetism are adversarial states of matter. The presence of
spontaneous magnetic fields inside the superconducting state is, therefore, an intriguing …

Chiral superconductors

C Kallin, J Berlinsky - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Chiral superconductivity is a striking quantum phenomenon in which an unconventional
superconductor spontaneously develops an angular momentum and lowers its free energy …

Strong peak in Tc of Sr2RuO4 under uniaxial pressure

A Steppke, L Zhao, ME Barber, T Scaffidi… - Science, 2017 - science.org
INTRODUCTION A central challenge of modern condensed matter physics is to understand
the range of possible collective states formed by assemblies of strongly interacting electrons …

Reduction of the Spin Susceptibility in the Superconducting State of Observed by Polarized Neutron Scattering

AN Petsch, M Zhu, M Enderle, ZQ Mao, Y Maeno… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
Recent observations [A. Pustogow, Nature (London) 574, 72 (2019). NATUAS 0028-0836
10.1038/s41586-019-1596-2] of a drop of the O 17 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) …

Constraints on the superconducting state of from elastocaloric measurements

G Palle, C Hicks, R Valentí, Z Hu, YS Li, A Rost… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Strontium ruthenate Sr 2 RuO 4 is an unconventional superconductor whose pairing
symmetry has not been fully clarified, despite more than two decades of intensive research …

Micron-scale measurements of low anisotropic strain response of local in

CA Watson, AS Gibbs, AP Mackenzie, CW Hicks… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Strontium ruthenate (Sr 2 RuO 4) is a multiband superconductor that displays evidence of
topological superconductivity, although a model of the order parameter that is consistent …

Large Chern Number and Edge Currents in

T Scaffidi, SH Simon - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
We show from a weak-coupling microscopic calculation that the most favored chiral
superconducting order parameter in Sr 2 RuO 4 has a Chern number of| C|= 7. The two …

The search for spontaneous edge currents in Sr2RuO4 mesa structures with controlled geometrical shapes

PJ Curran, SJ Bending, AS Gibbs, AP Mackenzie - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Scanning Hall microscopy has been used to search for spontaneous edge fields in
geometrically shaped mesa structures etched into the ab surface of Sr2RuO4 single crystals …

Time-reversal invariant superconductivity of revealed by Josephson effects

S Kashiwaya, K Saitoh, H Kashiwaya, M Koyanagi… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Sr 2 RuO 4 is one of the most promising candidates of a topological superconductor with
broken time-reversal symmetry because a number of experiments have revealed evidence …