By subjecting a multiband superconductor to a time-dependent drive, even-frequency pair amplitudes can be converted to odd-frequency pair amplitudes and vice versa. In the movie below we evaluate, as a function of time, both the even-frequency and odd-frequency pairing amplitudes of a multiband superconductor driven by a time-periodic chemical potential. At generic times during the period, contributions to the odd-frequency and even-frequency pair amplitudes are non-zero. The corrections to the odd- frequency amplitudes are largest exactly when the drive vanishes and smallest exactly when the drive reaches its maximum amplitude; the corrections to the even-ω amplitudes behave in the opposite manner.

Key Papers

Odd-frequency superconductivity - Jacob Linder, Alexander V. Balatsky, Rev. Mod. Phys. 91, 045005 (2019)

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General conditions for proximity-induced odd-frequency superconductivity in two-dimensional electronic systems - Christopher Triola, Driss M. Badiane, Alexander V. Balatsky, E. Rossi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 257001 (2016)

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Proximity-induced unconventional superconductivity in topological insulators - Annica M. Black-Schaffer, Alexander V. Balatsky, Phys. Rev. B 87, 220506(R) (2013)

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Recent Articles on the Topic (chronologically last 4 years)

Ferroelectricity-induced multiorbital odd-frequency superconductivity in \(SrTiO_3\) - Shota Kanasugi, Dushko Kuzmanovski, Alexander V. Balatsky, and Youichi Yanase, Phys. Rev. B 102, 184506 (2020)

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Signatures of odd-frequency pairing in the Josephson junction current noise - Rubén Seoane Souto, Dushko Kuzmanovski, and Alexander V. Balatsky, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043193 (2020)

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Proximity-Induced Odd-Frequency Superconductivity in a Topological Insulator - Jonas A. Krieger, Anna Pertsova, Sean R. Giblin, Max Döbeli, Thomas Prokscha, Christof W. Schneider, Andreas Suter, Thorsten Hesjedal, Alexander V. Balatsky, and Zaher Salman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 026802 (2020)

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Odd-frequency superconductivity near a magnetic impurity in a conventional superconductor - Dushko Kuzmanovski, Rubén Seoane Souto, and Alexander V. Balatsky, Phys. Rev. B 101, 094505 (2020)

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Quantum Pairing Time Orders - Alexander V. Balatsky, Pavel O. Sukhachov, and Sumanta Bandyopadhyay, Ann. der Phys. 532, 1900529 (2020)

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Odd-frequency Berezinskii superconductivity in Dirac semimetals - P. O. Sukhachov, Vladimir Juričić, and A. V. Balatsky, Phys. Rev. B 100, 180502(R) (2019)

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Spectroscopic and optical response of odd-frequency superconductors - P. O. Sukhachov and A. V. Balatsky, Phys. Rev. B 100, 134516 (2019)

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Symmetry analysis of odd- and even-frequency superconducting gap symmetries for time-reversal symmetric interactions - R. Matthias Geilhufe and Alexander V. Balatsky, Phys. Rev. B 97, 024507 (2018)

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