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We consider ultracold atoms in a two-dimensional optical lattice of the dice geometry in a tight-binding regime. The atoms experience a laser-assisted tunneling between the nearest neighbour sites of the dice lattice accompanied by the…

Motivated by the prospect of attaining Majorana modes at the ends of nanowires, we analyze interacting Majorana systems on general networks and lattices in an arbitrary number of dimensions, and derive various universal spin duals. Such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-16 Zohar Nussinov , Gerardo Ortiz , Emilio Cobanera

We show that networks of topological nanowires can realize the physics of exactly solvable Kitaev spin models with two-body interactions. This connection arises from the description of the low-energy theory of both systems in terms of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 Graham Kells , Ville Lahtinen , Jiri Vala

This paper studies an extended Kitaev chain with three sublattices per unit cell. This extended version is obtained by hybridizing a modified Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model featuring trimerized unit cells with the standard Kitaev chain,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Mohammad Ghuneim , Raditya Weda Bomantara

Fractional excitations hold immense promise for both fundamental physics and quantum technologies. However, constructing lattice models for their dynamics under gauge fields remains a formidable challenge due to inherent obstructions. Here,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-22 K. B. Yogendra , G. Baskaran , Tanmoy Das

We unveil an interesting example of topological flat bands of Majorana fermions in quantum spin liquids. We study the Kitaev model on a periodically depleted honeycomb lattice, under a magnetic field within the perturbation theory. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-10 Kiyu Fukui , Yukitoshi Motome

The expected phenomenology of non-interacting topological band insulators (TBI) is now largely theoretically understood. However, the fate of TBIs in the presence of interactions remains an active area of research with novel,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-30 Mehdi Kargarian , Abdollah Langari , Gregory A. Fiete

We present the phase diagram and critical properties of a coupled $XY$-Ising model on a triangular lattice using the mean-field approximation, the Migdal-Kadanoff scheme of renormalization group and Monte-Carlo simulations. The topology of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Hébert , M. L. Plumer

Altermagnet-superconductor heterostructures have been shown, in principle, to provide a route towards realising topological superconductivity, and therefore host topologically protected boundary states. In this work we demonstrate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 George McArdle , Brian Kiraly , Peter Wadley , Adam Gammon-Smith

We present a scheme to realize a topological superconducting system supporting Majorana zero modes, within a number-conserving framework suitable for optical-lattice experiments. Our approach builds on the engineering of pair-hopping…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Anais Defossez , Laurens Vanderstraeten , Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Nathan Goldman

We derive and study a spin one-half Hamiltonian on a honeycomb lattice describing the exchange interactions between Ir$^{4+}$ ions in a family of layered iridates $A_2$IrO$_3$ ($A$=Li,Na). Depending on the microscopic parameters, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-20 Jiri Chaloupka , George Jackeli , Giniyat Khaliullin

In two dimensions, topological phases of free Majorana fermions coupled to a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ gauge field are known to be classified according to the Chern number $\nu \in \mathbb{Z}$. Its value mod 16 specifies the type of anyonic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-06 J. -N. Fuchs , S. Patil , J. Vidal

We investigate the topological phase diagram of {an extension of the Haldane model with equal spin pairing superconductivity}. In two dimensions, we find a topological nodal superconducting phase, which exhibits a chiral Majorana mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Simone Traverso , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Maura Sassetti , Fernando Dominguez

We demonstrate that a plethora of higher order topological phases emerge in magnet-superconductor hybrid (MSH) systems through the interplay of a stacked magnetic structure and an underlying triangular surface lattice; the latter being of…

We show that the decorated honeycomb lattice supports a number of topological insulating phases with a non-trivial Z_2 invariant and time-reversal symmetry protected gapless edge modes. We investigate the stability of these phases with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-20 Andreas Rüegg , Jun Wen , Gregory A. Fiete

Motivated by the recent experimental realization of the Haldane model by ultracold fermions in an optical lattice, we investigate phase diagrams of the hard-core Bose-Hubbard model on a honeycomb lattice. This model is closely related with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-02 T. Nakafuji , I. Ichinose

Kitaev's honeycomb-lattice spin-$1/2$ model has become a paradigmatic example for $\mathbb{Z}_2$ quantum spin liquids, both gapped and gapless. Here we study the fate of these spin-liquid phases in differently stacked bilayer versions of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-03 Urban F. P. Seifert , Julian Gritsch , Erik Wagner , Darshan G. Joshi , Wolfram Brenig , Matthias Vojta , Kai P. Schmidt

We use the methods of topological quantum chemistry to explore the topology of phonons on time-reversal symmetric crystals with the structure of the planar honeycomb (layer group $p6/mmm$). This approach is not tied to a particular model of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Juan L. Mañes

The edge state of the topological insulator coupled to a superconductor system is able to simulate the Majorana fermion in zero energy mode since the Kitaev-type pairing is induced by exchanging quasi-excitations in electron tunneling.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Xin Yue , Guo-Jian Qiao , C. P. Sun

As the simplest non-Fermi liquids, orthogonal metals have gapped single-particle excitations but show normal metallic behaviors in thermodynamic and transport quantities. Such an exotic metallic state could be realized in a Hubbard model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-05 Yin Zhong , Lan Zhang , Han-Tao Lu , Hong-Gang Luo