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Gaps in unconventional superconductors
Abstract
The energy gap is one of the defining properties of a superconductor and appears because the quasiparticle excitations radically change once a metallic system enters the superconducting state. Unconventional superconductors typically exhibit a non-uniform gapping and therefore show physical effects that are subject to intense research. In this review, we provide an overview of concepts needed to understand how unconventional superconductors are different from conventional ones, where the gapping comes from and how it expresses itself in experimentally accessible quantities. This should give the basis to understand current open research questions and navigate the recent literature that tend to contain contradictory conclusions.
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BibTeX
@misc{kreisel2026gaps,
title = {{Gaps in unconventional superconductors}},
author = {Andreas Kreisel},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2607.26251},
eprint = {2607.26251},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26251},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Gaps in unconventional superconductors
AU - Andreas Kreisel
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/07
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2607.26251
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26251
AB - The energy gap is one of the defining properties of a superconductor and appears because the quasiparticle excitations radically change once a metallic system enters the superconducting state. Unconventional superconductors typically exhibit a non-uniform gapping and therefore show physical effects that are subject to intense research. In this review, we provide an overview of concepts needed to understand how unconventional superconductors are different from conventional ones, where the gapping comes from and how it expresses itself in experimentally accessible quantities. This should give the basis to understand current open research questions and navigate the recent literature that tend to contain contradictory conclusions.
ER -