Topological superconductivity in one dimension requires time-reversal symmetry breaking, but at the same time, it is hindered by external magnetic fields. We offer a general prescription for inducing topological planar superconductor-normal-superconductor-normal-superconductor (SNSNS) Josephson junctions without applying any fields on junctions. Our platform relies two key ingredients: three pa...

Since the discovery of high transition-temperature (high Tc ) superconductivity in layered copper oxides [1], they have held the pole position in the race for achieving higher Tc [2]. In this race many different compounds which contain copper oxide layers has been examined. Although there are reports of Tc s up to 185K for very rare phases of complex compounds like (Sn1.0Pb0.5In0.5)Ba4Tm5Cu7O20...

We review what is different and what is similar in a color superconductor as compared to an ordinary BCS superconductor. The parametric dependence of the zero-temperature gap, φ0, on the coupling constant differs in QCD from that in BCS theory. On the other hand, the transition temperature to the superconducting phase, Tc, is related to the zero-temperature gap in the same way in QCD as in BCS ...

We calculate the local density of states (LDOS) of a superconductor-normal metal sandwich at arbitrary impurity concentration. The presence of the superconductor induces a gap in the normal metal spectrum that is proportional to the inverse of the elastic mean free path l for rather clean systems. For a mean free path much shorter than the thickness of the normal metal, we find a gap size propo...

FRG The subgap conductivity of a normal-superconductor (NS) tunnel junction is thought to be due to tunneling of two electrons. There is a strong interference between these two electrons, originating from the spatial phase coherence in the normal metal at a mesoscopic length scale and the intrinsic coherence of the superconductor. We evaluated the interference effect on the transport through an...

We study the normal state conductance and the Josephson current in a superconductor-2DEG-superconductor structure where the size/shape of the 2DEG-region can be modified by an additional side-gate electrode. The considered transport properties follow from the retarded Green function which we compute by employing a tight-binding-like representation of the Hamiltonian in the 2DEG region. Our mode...

Muon spin relaxation experiments on the noncentrosymmetric intermetallic superconductor LaNiC2 are reported. We find that the onset of superconductivity coincides with the appearance of spontaneous magnetic fields, implying that in the superconducting state time-reversal symmetry is broken. An analysis of the possible pairing symmetries suggests only four triplet states compatible with this obs...

We calculate the magnetic polarization tensor of the photon and of the gluons in a two flavor color superconductor with a LOFF pairing that consists of a single plane wave. We show that at zero temperature and within the range of the values of the Fermi sea displacement that favors the LOFF state, all the eigenvalues of the magnetic polarization tensor are non-negative. Therefore the chromomagn...

The length dependence is computed of the resistance of a disordered normalmetal wire attached to a superconductor. The scaling of the transmission eigenvalue distribution with length is obtained exactly in the metallic limit, by a transformation onto the isobaric flow of a two-dimensional ideal fluid. The resistance has a minimum for lengths near l/Γ, with l the mean free path and Γ the transmi...