Symmetry and Topological Structure of the Order Parameter of Unconventional Superconductors
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Physics".
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Special Issue Editor
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Dear Colleagues,
Unconventional superconductors were discovered about 40 years ago [1], but today, new results of the structure of SOPs (superconducting order parameters) of well-known unconventional superconductors are obtained, and new materials with unusual symmetry properties are discovered. In particular, the initial triplet structure of SOP of Sr2RuO4 was reconsidered, the magnetic-field-boosted superconducting transition in UTe2 was demonstrated, and both even and odd SOPs in CeRh2A2 have been identified. Since there is no theory of unconventional superconductivity, experimental investigations of symmetry of SOP and theoretical approaches, such as phenomenological, topological, and group theoretical, are of great importance in understanding the nature of unconventional superconductivity.
This volume collects experimental and theoretical works on the symmetry of SOPs of unconventional superconductors.
[1] Stewart, G.R.; Fisk, Z.; Willis, J.O.; Smith, J.L. Possibility of Coexistence of Bulk Superconductivity and Spin Fluctuations in UPt₃. Phys. Rev. Lett. 1984, 52, 679-682; DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.679.
Dr. Victor Yarzhemsky
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