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The Rashba superconductor, in which spin-splitting bands become superconducting, is fascinating as a novel superconducting system in low dimensional systems. Here, we present the results of $\textit{in-situ}$ transport measurements on a…

Motivated by the recent resurgence of interest in topological superconductivity, we study in this paper superconducting pairing instabilities of the hole-doped Rashba-Hubbard model on the square lattice with first- and second-neighbor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-01 Andrés Greco , Andreas P. Schnyder

We propose a material platform comprised of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) heterostructures to realize the two-dimensional (2D) helical superconductivity with an intrinsic gap. By van der Waals stacking a 2D superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-12 Xuance Jiang , Jennifer Cano , Yuan Ping , Yafis Barlas , Deyu Lu

Topological superconductors (TSCs) in superconducting hybrid heterostructures, which integrate superconducting and non-superconducting materials, have been intensely investigated with the hope of discovering exotic non-Abelian anyons for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-14 Joseph J. Cuozzo , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Dale Huber , Wei Pan , François Léonard

Recent developments in the search for topological superconductivity have brought lattices of magnetic adatoms on a superconductor into intense focus. In this work we will study ferromagnetic chains of adatoms on superconducting surfaces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Kim Pöyhönen , Alex Westström , Teemu Ojanen

Topological superconductivity is an exotic phase of matter in which the fully gapped superconducting bulk hosts gapless Majorana surface states protected by topology. Intercalation of copper, strontium or niobium between the quintuple…

The ferromagnetic metal-superconductor heterostructure with interface Rashba spin-orbit hopping is a promising candidate for topological superconductivity. We study the interplay between the interface Rashba hopping and the intrinsic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-15 Yingwen Zhang , Dao-Xin Yao , Zhi Wang

Multigap superconductivity emerges when superconducting gaps form on distinct Fermi surfaces. Arising from locally overlapping atomic orbitals, multiple superconducting bands introduce a new internal degree of freedom in the material that,…

We show that a two-dimensional semiconductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling could be driven into the second-order topological superconducting phase when a mixed-pairing state is introduced. The superconducting order we consider involves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Xiaoyu Zhu

Layered non-centrosymmetric bismuth tellurohalides are being examined as candidates for topological insulators. Pressure is believed to be essential for inducing and tuning topological order in these systems. Through electrical transport…

We propose a new Rashba-free mechanism to realize topological superconductivity with electron-phonon interaction. In the presence of a magnetic field, electron-phonon interaction with small momentum transfer is found to favor spin-triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-29 Shaozhi Li , Lun-Hui Hu , Rui-Xing Zhang , Satoshi Okamoto

We analyze influence of a dimerization on the topological phases of the Rashba nanowire proximitized to a superconducting substrate. We find that periodic alternations of the hopping integral and spin-orbit coupling can lead to band…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-14 Aksel Kobiałka , Nicholas Sedlmayr , Maciej M. Maśka , Tadeusz Domański

Quantum-Hall--Superconductor hybrids have been predicted to exhibit various types of topological order, providing possible platforms for intrinsically fault-tolerant quantum computing. In this paper, we develop a formulation to construct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Koji Kudo , Ryota Nakai , Kentaro Nomura

Recent experiments have provided evidence that one-dimensional (1D) topological superconductivity can be realized experimentally by placing transition metal atoms that form a ferromagnetic chain on a superconducting substrate. We address…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Jian Li , Hua Chen , Ilya K. Drozdov , A. Yazdani , B. Andrei Bernevig , A. H. MacDonald

Symmetry offers a useful approach to unfold the intertwined degrees of freedom. Thus it paves the way to resolve coexisting quantum orders into distinct symmetry sectors. Motivated by the recent observation of superconductivity in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-19 Kunal Dutta , Rajesh O. Sharma , Shreya Das , Indra Dasgupta , Tanmoy Das , Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta

The search for topological superconductors which support Majorana fermion excitations has been an important topic in condensed matter physics. In this work, we propose a new experimental scheme for engineering topological superconductors.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-20 Yao Lu , Wen-Yu He , Dong-Hui Xu , Nian Lin , K. T. Law

Two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit coupling in the proximity of a superconductor and a magnetic insulator have recently been considered as promising candidates to realize topological superconducting phases. Here we discuss…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Teemu Ojanen , Takuya Kitagawa

Inspired by the recent experimental observation of topological superconductivity in ferromagnetic chains, we consider a dilute 2D lattice of magnetic atoms deposited on top of a superconducting surface with a Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Joel Röntynen , Teemu Ojanen

We study the emergence of topological superconductivity in a two-dimensional (2D) Weyl system, composed of stacked Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains. A previous analysis of the model showed that the addition of an attractive Hubbard…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-18 Peter Rosenberg , Efstratios Manousakis

In the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) emerging at the transition metal oxide surface and interface, it has been pointed out that the Rashba spin-orbit interaction, the momentum-dependent spin splitting due to broken inversion symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-26 Minsung Kim , Jisoon Ihm , Suk Bum Chung