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In this work, we focus on the critical dynamics of the one-dimensional quasiperiodic p-wave-paired Aubry-Andr\'{e}-Harper model, which exhibits a transition point between the gapped critical and the gapless localized phases. First, we…

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We investigate the nonequilibrium response of quasiperiodic systems to boundary driving. In particular we focus on the Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper model at its metal-insulator transition and the diagonal Fibonacci model. We find that opening the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-09-27 Vipin Kerala Varma , Clélia de Mulatier , Marko Znidaric

Quasi-periodic lattice systems offer diverse transport properties. In this work, we investigate the environment induced effects on transport properties for quasi-periodic systems, namely the one-dimensional Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper (AAH)…

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In this paper, we study exponential random graph models subject to certain constraints. We obtain some general results about the asymptotic structure of the model. We show that there exists non-trivial regions in the phase plane where the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Lingjiong Zhu

The Anderson localization phase transition in the Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper (AAH) model with \textit{p}-wave superconducting (SC) pairing is numerically investigated by suddenly changing the on-site potential from zero to various finite values…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-06-04 Qi-Bo Zeng , Shu Chen , Rong Lü

Two-dimensional (2D) topological electronic insulators are known to give rise to gapless edge modes, which underlie low energy dynamics, including electrical and thermal transport. This has been thoroughly investigated in the context of…

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We propose realization of non-Abelian topological superconductivity in two-dimensional quasicrystals by the same mechanism as in crystalline counterparts. Specifically, we study a two-dimensional electron gas in Penrose and Ammann-Beenker…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-19 Rasoul Ghadimi , Takanori Sugimoto , K. Tanaka , Takami Tohyama

Time reversal symmetric topological superconductors in three spatial dimensions carry gapless surface Majorana fermions. They are robust against any time reversal symmetric single-body perturbation weaker than the bulk energy gap. We mimic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-26 Sharmistha Sahoo , Zhao Zhang , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo

In this work we investigate non-Hermitian topological phase transitions using real-space edge states as a paradigmatic tool. We focus on the simplest non-Hermitian variant of the Su-Schrieffer-Hegger model, including a parameter that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-15 Rui Aquino , Nei Lopes , Daniel G. Barci

In this work, we investigate the Anderson localization problems of the generalized Aubry-Andr\'{e} model (Ganeshan-Pixley-Das Sarma's model) with an unbounded quasi-periodic potential where the parameter $|\alpha|\geq1$. The Lyapunov…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-05-26 Yi-Cai Zhang , Yan-Yang Zhang

We show that three dimensional superconductors, described within a Bogoliubov de Gennes framework can have zero energy bound states associated with pointlike topological defects. The Majorana fermions associated with these modes have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jeffrey C. Y. Teo , C. L. Kane

In a recent experiment, a dissipative Aharaonov-Bohm (AB) chain was implemented in the momentum space of a Bose-Einstein condensate. Formed by a series of dissipative AB rings threaded by synthetic magnetic flux, the chain exhibits the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-11-28 Haowei Li , Wei Yi

Majorana bound states are quasiparticle excitations localized at the boundaries of a topologically nontrivial superconductor. They are zero-energy, charge-neutral, particle-hole symmetric, and spatially-separated end modes which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Pasquale Marra

As an important class of systems with unique topological effects beyond the periodic lattices, quasiperiodic topological structures have attracted much attention in recent years. Due to the quasiperiodic modulation, the topological states…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Juan Song , Fengqing Yang , Zhiwei Guo , Youqi Chen , Haitao Jiang , Yunhui Li , Hong Chen

We investigate the properties of mobility edge in an Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper model with non-reciprocal long-range hopping. The results reveal that there can be a new type of mobility edge featuring both strength-dependent and scale-free…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-07-24 Gui-Juan Liu , Jia-Ming Zhang , Shan-Zhong Li , Zhi Li

The basic Landau model for the incommensurate-commensurate transition to the uniform or dimerized uniaxial ordering is critically reexamined. The previous analyses identified only sinusoidal and homogeneous solutions as thermodynamically…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 V. Dananic , A. Bjelis , Zagreb , Croatia

In this letter we present, in a number conserving framework, a model of interacting fermions in a two-wire geometry supporting non-local zero-energy Majorana-like edge excitations. The model has an exactly solvable line, on varying the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-12 Fernando Iemini , Leonardo Mazza , Davide Rossini , Rosario Fazio , Sebastian Diehl

We demonstrate that in two-dimensional noncentrosymmetric s-wave superconductors under applied magnetic fields for a particular electron density, topological order emerges, and there exists a zero energy Majorana fermion mode in a vortex…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Satoshi Fujimoto

Topological phases characterized by non-Abelian charges have garnered increasing attention recently. Although Floquet (periodic-driving) higher-order topological phases have been explored at the single-particle level, the role of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Yujie Zhou , Changsen Li , Xiumei Wang , Xingping Zhou

Majorana zero modes are usually attributed to topological superconductors. We study a class of two-dimensional topologically trivial superconductors without chiral edge modes, which nevertheless host robust Majorana zero modes in…

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