This book, authored and edited by leading researchers in the field, is both an introduction to and overview on this exciting branch of novel superconductors. Spin-triplet pairing can occur in non-centrosymmetric superconductors in spite of Anderson’s theorem that spin-triplet pairing requires a crystal structure that exhibits inversion symmetry. This scenario accounts for various experimental findings such as nodes in the superconducting gap or extremely large upper critical magnetic fields. The superconducting condensate is then a superposition of spin-singlet and spin-triplet Cooper pairs. Superconductivity in materials without inversion symmetry in the respective crystal structures occurs in the presence of antisymmetric spin-orbit coupling as a consequence of an emerging electric field gradient.
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