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Superconductivity without time-reversal or inversion symmetries

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Abstract

To ensure a superconducting instability, key symmetries are required. In three dimensions (3D), these are time-reversal (T) and inversion (I) symmetries. In two dimensions, T and I are joined by TMz and IMz symmetries where Mz is a mirror reflection through the basal plane. Here we discuss unusual physics that arises when one or more of these key symmetries are broken. In particular, in 3D, we show that spontaneously breaking T symmetry allows for topologically protected nodal Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces and apply this idea to URu2Si2 and Sr2RuO4. In 2D, we develop an energetic and topological superconductor classification in the unfamiliar situation that both T and I symmetreis are absent. We apply this to Ising superconductors with in-plane magnetic fields and monolayer FeSe coexisting with antiferromagnetic order.

Presenters

  • Daniel Agterberg

    University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Authors

  • Daniel Agterberg

    University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

  • Philip Brydon

    Physics, University of Otago

  • Mark H Fischer

    Physics, University of Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich University

  • Henri Menke

    Physics, University of Otago

  • Manfred W Sigrist

    Theoretical Physics, ETH-Zurich, Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich

  • Carsten Timm

    Theoretical Physics, Technische Universitat