Odd-Parity Spin-Triplet Superconductivity in Centrosymmetric Antiferromagnetic Metals

Introduction to unconventional superconductivity in non-centrosymmetric metals

These lecture notes are an extension of my previous notes [1] presented in this lecture series and are concerned with the recently emerging research field of unconventional superconductivity in non-centrosymmetric metals. Inversion symmetry together with time reversal symmetry represent key symmetries for the formation of Cooper pairs in superconductors and allows to distinguish between even-pa...

Odd-Parity Superconductivity in the Vicinity of Inversion Symmetry Breaking in Spin-Orbit-Coupled Systems.

We study superconductivity in spin-orbit-coupled systems in the vicinity of inversion symmetry breaking. We find that, because of the presence of spin-orbit coupling, fluctuations of the incipient parity-breaking order generate an attractive pairing interaction in an odd-parity pairing channel, which competes with the s-wave pairing. We show that Coulomb repulsion or an external Zeeman field su...

Odd Triplet Superconductivity and Related Phenomena in Superconductor-Ferromagnet Structures

We consider novel unusual effects in superconductor-ferromagnet (S/F) structures. In particular we analyze the triplet component (TC) of the condensate generated in those systems.This component is odd in frequency and even in the momentum, which makes it insensitive to non-magnetic impurities. If the exchange field is not homogeneous in the system the triplet component is not destroyed even by ...

Title Odd-parity superconductivity by competing spin-orbit coupling and orbital effect in artificial heterostructures

Odd-parity pairing and topological superconductivity in a strongly spin-orbit coupled semiconductor.

The existence of topological superconductors preserving time-reversal symmetry was recently predicted, and they are expected to provide a solid-state realization of itinerant massless Majorana fermions and a route to topological quantum computation. Their first likely example, Cu(x)Bi(2)Se(3), was discovered last year, but the search for new materials has so far been hindered by the lack of a g...