Recent progress on superconductors with time-reversal symmetry breaking

  • Sudeep Kumar Ghosh*
  • , Michael Smidman*
  • , Tian Shang
  • , James F. Annett
  • , Adrian D. Hillier
  • , Jorge Quintanilla
  • , Huiqiu Yuan*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Superconductivity and magnetism are adversarial states of matter. The presence of spontaneous magnetic fields inside the superconducting state is, therefore, an intriguing phenomenon prompting extensive experimental and theoretical research. In this review, we discuss recent experimental discoveries of unconventional superconductors which spontaneously break time-reversal symmetry and theoretical efforts in understanding their properties. We discuss the main experimental probes and give an extensive account of theoretical approaches to understand the order parameter symmetries and the corresponding pairing mechanisms, including the importance of multiple bands.

Original languageEnglish
Article number033001
JournalJournal of Physics Condensed Matter
Volume33
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Oct 2020
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • broken time reversal symmetry
  • order parameter
  • superconductivity

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