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It is commonly assumed that topological phase transitions in topological superconductors are accompanied by a closing of the topological gap or a change of the symmetry of the system. We demonstrate that an unconventional topological phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-16 Maciej M. Maśka , Nicholas Sedlmayr , Aksel Kobiałka , Tadeusz Domański

Classical wave fields are real-valued, ensuring the wave states at opposite frequencies and momenta to be inherently identical. Such a particle-hole symmetry can open up new possibilities for topological phenomena in classical systems. Here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-08 Dafei Jin , Ling Lu , Zhong Wang , Chen Fang , John D. Joannopoulos , Marin Soljačić , Liang Fu , Nicholas X. Fang

Two-dimensional time-reversal-invariant topological superconductors host helical Majorana fermions at their boundary. We study the fate of these edge states under the combined influence of strong interactions and disorder, using the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-09 Jun Ho Son , Jason Alicea , Olexei I. Motrunich

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

We theoretically study a time-reversal-invariant three-dimensional superfluid model by stacking in $z$ direction identical bilayer models with intralayer spin-orbit coupling and contrary Zeeman energy splitting for different layer, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Beibing Huang , Yujie Bai , Ning Xu

Topological edge modes are excitations that are localized at the materials' edges and yet are characterized by a topological invariant defined in the bulk. Such bulk-edge correspondence has enabled the creation of robust electronic,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Ananya Ghatak , Martin Brandenbourger , Jasper van Wezel , Corentin Coulais

We show that a topological phase supporting Majorana fermions can form in a 2D electron gas (2DEG) adjacent to an interdigitated superconductor-ferromagnet structure. An advantage of this setup is that the 2DEG can induce the required…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-09-19 Shu-Ping Lee , Jason Alicea , Gil Refael

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

The remarkable properties and potential applications of Majorana fermions have led to considerable efforts in recent years to realize topological matters that host these excitations. For a number-conserving system, there have been a few…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-10 X. Y. Yin , Tin-Lun Ho , Xiaoling Cui

To pinpoint the microscopic mechanism for superconductivity has proven to be one of the most outstanding challenges in the physics of correlated quantum matter. Thus far, the most direct evidence for an electronic pairing mechanism is the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-29 Mathias S. Scheurer , Jörg Schmalian

The classification of topological states of matter depends on spatial dimension and symmetry class. For non-interacting topological insulators and superconductors the topological classification is obtained systematically and nontrivial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-05 Xiao-Liang Qi

The quantum phase transition between topological and non-topological insulators or between fully gapped superfluids/superconductors can occur without closing the gap. We consider the evolution of the Majorana edge states on the surface of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-30 M. A. Silaev , G. E. Volovik

Intriguing issues in one-dimensional non-reciprocal topological systems include the breakdown of usual bulk-edge correspondence and the occurrence of half-integer topological invariants. In order to understand these unusual topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Hui Jiang , Rong Lü , Shu Chen

Majorana corner modes appearing in two-dimensional second-order topological superconductors have great potential applications for fault-tolerant topological quantum computations. We demonstrate that in the presence of an in-plane magentic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-07 S. Ikegaya , W. B. Rui , D. Manske , Andreas P. Schnyder

Two-dimensional topological insulators possess conducting edge states at their boundary while being insulating in the bulk. The detection of edge states remains an open question in ultracold atom setups. We propose a configuration to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-06-30 Bernhard Irsigler , Jun-Hui Zheng , Walter Hofstetter

For inversion-symmetric topological insulators and superconductors characterized by ${\mathbb Z}_{2}$ topological invariants, two scaling schemes are proposed to judge topological phase transitions driven by an energy parameter. The scaling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Wei Chen , Manfred Sigrist , Andreas P. Schnyder

We introduce two-dimensional topological insulators in proximity to high-temperature cuprate or iron-based superconductors as high-temperature platforms of Majorana Kramers pairs of zero modes. The proximity-induced pairing at the helical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-03 Zhongbo Yan , Fei Song , Zhong Wang

The topological phases of graphene with spin-orbit coupling, an exchange field, and a staggered-sublattice potential determine the properties of the edge states of the zigzag nanoribbon. In the presence of the Hubbard interaction, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Ma Luo

Among the broad spectrum of systems predicted to exhibit topological superconductivity and Majorana fermions, one-dimensional wires with strong spin-orbit coupling provide one of the most promising experimental candidates. Here we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-07-15 E. M. Stoudenmire , Jason Alicea , Oleg A. Starykh , Matthew P. A. Fisher

The topological properties in topological superconductors are usually characterized by the bulk Chern numbers, edge-state spectra, and Majorana zero modes. Whether they are equivalent or inequivalent is not well understood. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Xiao-Ping Liu , Yuan Zhou , Yi-Fei Wang , Chang-De Gong