Muon spin spectroscopy

AD Hillier, SJ Blundell, I McKenzie, I Umegaki… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Muons are particles with a spin of ½ that can be implanted into a wide range of condensed
matter materials to act as a local probe of the surrounding atomic environment …

Time-reversal symmetry broken by charge order in

R Khasanov, D Das, R Gupta, C Mielke III… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
The recently discovered vanadium-based kagome metals AV 3 Sb 5 (A= K, Rb, Cs) exhibit
superconductivity at low temperatures and charge density wave (CDW) order at high …

State with spontaneously broken time-reversal symmetry above the superconducting phase transition

V Grinenko, D Weston, F Caglieris, C Wuttke, C Hess… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
The most well-known example of an ordered quantum state—superconductivity—is caused
by the formation and condensation of pairs of electrons. Fundamentally, what distinguishes …

Spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking by disorder in superconductors

BM Andersen, A Kreisel, PJ Hirschfeld - Frontiers in Physics, 2024 - frontiersin.org
A growing number of superconducting materials display evidence for spontaneous time-
reversal symmetry breaking (TRSB) below their critical transition temperatures. Precisely …

Field-induced tuning of the pairing state in a superconductor

A Rosuel, C Marcenat, G Knebel, T Klein, A Pourret… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
The recently discovered superconductor UTe 2, with a superconducting transition
temperature T c between 1.5 and 2 K, is attracting much attention due to strong suspicion of …

Superconducting spin reorientation in spin-triplet multiple superconducting phases of UTe2

K Kinjo, H Fujibayashi, H Matsumura, F Hori… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Superconducting (SC) state has spin and orbital degrees of freedom, and spin-triplet
superconductivity shows multiple SC phases because of the presence of these degrees of …

Unconventional superconductivity in chiral molecule–TaS2 hybrid superlattices

Z Wan, G Qiu, H Ren, Q Qian, Y Li, D Xu, J Zhou… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Chiral superconductors, a unique class of unconventional superconductors in which the
complex superconducting order parameter winds clockwise or anticlockwise in the …

Fate of Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in

MO Ajeesh, M Bordelon, C Girod, S Mishra, F Ronning… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
Topological superconductivity is a long-sought state of matter in bulk materials, and the odd-
parity superconductor UTe 2 is a prime candidate. The recent observation of a field-trainable …

Current-and field-induced topology in twisted nodal superconductors

PA Volkov, JH Wilson, KP Lucht, JH Pixley - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
We show that interlayer current induces topological superconductivity in twisted bilayers of
nodal superconductors. A bulk gap opens and achieves its maximum near a “magic” twist …

Unconventional superconductivity in topological Kramers nodal-line semimetals

T Shang, J Zhao, LH Hu, J Ma, DJ Gawryluk, X Zhu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Crystalline symmetry is a defining factor of the electronic band topology in solids, where
many-body interactions often induce a spontaneous breaking of symmetry. Superconductors …