specs__ Summary __

Our group investigates new aspects of superconductivity and superfluidity in 'extreme' environments. By extreme conditions we mean here systems where superconducting state is strongly modified compared with the undisturbed uniform state. Such environments may arise (a) when external magnetic fields act on the superconducting state; (b) superconducting phase appears in confined geometry (films,nanodots); (c) competing orders are present, most importantly magnetism. The new quasiparticle states that appear in these environments can manifest themselves through exotic symmetries and topological properties of the macroscopic states. This may give insight into the nature of the superconducting states in a a particular material, and lead to development of new technological applications. 

The workhorse for this research is the Quasiclassical approach based on the many-body theory. 

Andreev Bound States

Superconductivity and Magnetism 

Superfluidity in Confined Geometry

Collective Modes in Condensates

 

 

HOW TO JOIN:

If you are interested in joining our group, please talk to me and/or have a self-guided study of superconductivity essentials that you can find here: 

Introduction to superconductivity: a set of questions

If you have had some training in solid state physics, here you can find some probems that probe some techniques that we use: 

Solid State problems

This research is supported by:

nsf                                                                rescorp

National Science Foundation & Research Corporation for Science Advancement through Cottrell Scholar Program