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In topological insulators doped with magnetic ions, spin-orbit coupling and ferromagnetism give rise to the quantum anomalous Hall effect. Here we show that in s-wave superconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling, magnetic impurity ions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-25 Kun Jiang , Xi Dai , Ziqiang Wang

We investigate a mechanism to produce superconductivity by strong purely repulsive interactions for flat dispersion $\varepsilon \sim k^4$, without using pairing instability in Fermi-liquid. The resulting superconductors break both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-24 Minho Kim , Abigail Timmel , Long Ju , Xiao-Gang Wen

Higher-order topological superconductors and superfluids host lower-dimensional Majorana corner and hinge states since novel topology exhibitions on boundaries. While such topological nontrivial phases have been explored extensively, more…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Ya-Jie Wu , Wei Tu , Ning Li

We study the quantum anomalous Hall effect described by a class of two-component Haldane models on square lattices. We show that the latter can be transformed into a pseudospin triplet p+ip-wave paired superfluid. In the long wave length…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-17 Xuele Liu , Ziqiang Wang , X. C. Xie , Yue Yu

Fully gapped two-dimensional superconductors coupled to dynamical electromagnetism are known to exhibit topological order. In this work, we develop a unified low-energy description for spin-singlet paired states by deriving topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-17 Sergej Moroz , Abhinav Prem , Victor Gurarie , Leo Radzihovsky

Topological superconductors may undergo transitions between phases with different topological numbers which, like the case of topological insulators, are related to the presence of gapless (Majorana) edge states. In $\mathbb{Z}$ topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-15 Pedro D. Sacramento , Miguel A. N. Araújo , Eduardo V. Castro

Topological superconductors can support localized Majorana states at their boundaries. These quasi-particle excitations have non-Abelian statistics that can be used to encode and manipulate quantum information in a topologically protected…

A quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator coupled to an s-wave superconductor is predicted to harbor a topological superconducting phase, the elementary excitations of which (i.e. Majorana fermions) can form topological qubits upon…

The topological superconducting state is a highly sought-after quantum state hosting topological order and Majorana excitations. In this work, we explore the mechanism to realize the topological superconductivity (TSC) in the doped Mott…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-03 Yixuan Huang , Shou-Shu Gong , D. N. Sheng

Chiral spin-triplet superconductivity is a topologically nontrivial pairing state with broken time-reversal symmetry, which can host Majorana quasiparticles. The recently discovered heavy-fermion superconductor UTe$_2$ exhibits peculiar…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-25 K. Ishihara , M. Roppongi , M. Kobayashi , Y. Mizukami , H. Sakai , Y. Haga , K. Hashimoto , T. Shibauchi

We introduce a class of superconductors termed "quantized quadrupole superconductors" that support Majorana corner modes according to the bulk-corner correspondence, distinct from previous works on the second-order topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-24 Yun-Mei Li , Yongwei Huang , Kai Chang

A topological superconductor is characterized by having a pairing gap in the bulk and gapless self-hermitian Majorana modes at its boundary. In one dimension, these are zero-energy modes bound to the ends, while in two dimensions these are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-20 Arbel Haim , Yuval Oreg

New two dimensional systems like surface of topological insulator and graphene offer a possibility to experimentally investigate situations considered "exotic" just a decade ago. One of those is the quantum phase transition of the "chiral"…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-27 Dingping Li , Baruch Rosenstein , B. Ya. Shapiro , I. Shapiro

Applying the recently developed variational approach to Kohn-Luttinger superconductivity to the t-t' Hubbard model in two dimensions, we have found, for sizeable next-nearest neighbor hopping, an electron density controlled quantum phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Mraz , R. Hlubina

We study theoretically second-order topological superconductors characterized by the presence of pairs of zero-energy Majorana corner states. We uncover a quadrupole spin polarization at the system edges that provides a striking signature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Kirill Plekhanov , Niclas Müller , Yanick Volpez , Dante M. Kennes , Herbert Schoeller , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We show that interacting electrons in a flat Chern band can form, in addition to fractional Chern insulators, a chiral $f$-wave topological superconductor that hosts neutral Majorana fermion edge modes. Superconductivity emerges from an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-23 Daniele Guerci , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Liang Fu

Proximity-induced superconductivity in low-dimensional systems offers a powerful pathway to engineer topological superconducting phases in, otherwise, non-superconducting systems. These exotic phases are of fundamental and technological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 M. García Olmos , Y. Baba , R. A. Molina , M. Amado

We show that Floquet chiral topological superconductivity arises naturally in Josephson junctions made of magnetic topological insulator-superconductor sandwich structures. The Josephson phase modulation associated with an applied bias…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Rui-Xing Zhang , S. Das Sarma

A chiral $p_x+ip_y$ superconductor on a square lattice with nearest and next-nearest hopping and pairing terms is considered. Gap closures, as various parameters of the system are varied, are found analytically and used to identify the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-11-27 Antonio Russo , Sudip Chakravarty

By analytically solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations we study the fermion bound states at the center of the core of a vortex in a two-dimensional superconductor. We consider three kinds of 2D superconducting models: (a) a standard…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-11 Haoyun Deng , Nicholas Bonesteel , Pedro Schlottmann