Multicomponent superconductivity based on multiband superconductors

Y Tanaka - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Multicomponent superconductivity is realized in multiband superconductors when an
interband pairing interaction is considerably weaker than the intraband interactions. There is …

Ground state, collective mode, phase soliton and vortex in multiband superconductors

SZ Lin - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
This article reviews theoretical and experimental work on the novel physics in multiband
superconductors. Multiband superconductors are characterized by multiple superconducting …

Superconductivity with broken time-reversal symmetry inside a superconducting s-wave state

V Grinenko, R Sarkar, K Kihou, CH Lee, I Morozov… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
In general, magnetism and superconductivity are antagonistic to each other. However, there
are several families of superconductors in which superconductivity coexists with magnetism …

Extended superconducting fluctuation region and and flux quantization in a kagome compound with a normal state of order

CM Varma, Z Wang - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The superconducting state with the usual 2 e flux quantization formed from a normal state
with 3 Q charge density or loop-current order is a linear combination of 3 different paired …

Mechanism for a pairing state with time-reversal symmetry breaking in iron-based superconductors

C Platt, R Thomale, C Honerkamp, SC Zhang… - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
The multipocket Fermi surfaces of iron-based superconductors promote pairing states with
both extended s-wave and d-wave symmetry. We argue that the competition between these …

Massless leggett mode in three-band superconductors with time-reversal-symmetry breaking

SZ Lin, X Hu - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
The Leggett mode associated with out-of-phase oscillations of the superconducting phase in
multiband superconductors usually is heavy due to interband coupling, which makes its …

[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 …

Vortices and chirality in multi-band superconductors

T Yanagisawa, Y Tanaka, I Hase… - Journal of the Physical …, 2012 - journals.jps.jp
We investigate some significant properties of multi-band superconductors. They are time-
reversal symmetry breaking, chirality and fractional quantum flux vortices in three-band …

Stability and Josephson effect of time-reversal-symmetry-broken multicomponent superconductivity induced by frustrated intercomponent coupling

X Hu, Z Wang - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2012 - APS
A time-reversal-symmetry-broken (TRSB) superconductivity can be induced by sign-
reversed intercomponent couplings in superconductors with three components or above …