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In this paper we study the phase diagram of a disordered, spin-orbit coupled superconductor with $s$-wave or $d+id$-wave pairing symmetry in symmetry class $D$. We analyze the topological phase transitions by applying three different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-22 Jan Borchmann , Aaron Farrell , T. Pereg-Barnea

We describe a novel topological superfluid state, which forms in a one-dimensional Fermi gas with Rashba-like spin-orbit coupling, a Zeeman field and intrinsic attractive interactions. In spite of total number conservation and the presence…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-23 Jonathan Ruhman , Erez Berg , Ehud Altman

We bring forward a unified framework for the study of the superfluid stiffness and the quantum capacitance of superconducting platforms exhibiting conventional spin-singlet pairing. We focus on systems which in their normal phase contain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-14 Jun-Ang Wang , Mohamed Assili , Panagiotis Kotetes

Within the scattering approach, we develop a model for adiabatic quantum pumping in hybrid normal/superconductor systems where several superconducting leads are present. This is exploited to study Andreev-interference effects on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fabio Taddei , Michele Governale , Rosario Fazio

We investigate charge pumping in carbon nanotube quantum dots driven by the electric field of a surface acoustic wave. We find that at small driving amplitudes, the pumped current reverses polarity as the conductance is tuned through a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-19 M. R. Buitelaar , V. Kashcheyevs , P. J. Leek , V. I. Talyanskii , C. G. Smith , D. Anderson , G. A. C. Jones , J. Wei , D. H. Cobden

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

A one-dimensional spin-orbit coupled nanowire with proximity-induced pairing from a nearby s-wave superconductor may be in a topological nontrivial state, in which it has a zero energy Majorana bound state at each end. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 G. Kells , D. Meidan , P. W. Brouwer

We propose adiabatic pumping of orbital magnetization driven by coherent spin precession, facilitating the rectification of this precession. The orbital magnetization originates from the adiabatic evolution of valence electrons with a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-20 Yafei Ren , Wenqin Chen , Chong Wang , Ting Cao , Di Xiao

Topological superconductivity has attracted significant attention due to its potential applications in quantum computation, but its experimental realization remains challenging. Recently, monolayer T$_{\textrm{d}}$-MoTe$_2$ was observed to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-09 Xin-Zhi Li , Zhen-Bo Qi , Quansheng Wu , Wen-Yu He

We propose an exotic scenario that topological superconductivity can emerge by doping strongly interacting fermionic systems whose spin degrees of freedom form bosonic symmetry protected topological (SPT) state. Specifically, we study a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-27 Shang-Qiang Ning , Zheng-Xin Liu , Hong-Chen Jiang

The Z2 topological invariant is defined in the chiral d-wave superconductor having a triangular lattice in the presence of the 120 degrees magnetic ordering. By analyzing the Z2 invariant, we determine the conditions of implementing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-23 Valery V. Val'kov , Anton O. Zlotnikov , Maxim S. Shustin

We study and classify the proximity-induced superconducting pairing in a topological insulator (TI)-superconductor (SC) hybrid structure for SCs with different symmetries. The Dirac surface state gives a coupling between spin-singlet and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-06-26 Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Alexander V. Balatsky

We investigate the harmonically trapped 2D fermionic systems with a effective spin-orbit coupling and intrinsic s-wave superfluidity under the local density approximation, and find that there is a critical value for Zeeman field. When the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-03-07 Xiaosen Yang , Shaolong Wan

Spin pumping consists in the injection of spin currents into a non-magnetic material due to the precession of an adjacent ferromagnet. In addition to the pumping of spin the precession always leads to pumping of heat, but in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-11 V. Fernández Becerra , Mircea Trif , Timo Hyart

The transport of energy through 1-dimensional (1D) waveguiding channels can be affected by sub-wavelength disorder, resulting in undesirable localization and backscattering phenomena. However, quantized disorder-resilient transport is…

Recent explorations of quantized solitons transport in optical waveguides have thrust nonlinear topological pumping into the spotlight. In this work, we introduce a unified topological invariant applicable across both weakly and strongly…

Charge-$4e$ superconductors are phases where quartets of electrons condense in the absence of Cooper pairing condensation. They exhibit distinctive signatures including fractional flux quantization and anomalous Josephson effects, and are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-05 Zhi-Qiang Gao , Yan-Qi Wang , Hui Yang , Congjun Wu

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

Superconductivity was recently observed in boron-doped ($\sqrt{3}\times\sqrt{3}$)Sn/Si(111). The material can be described by an extended Hubbard model on a triangular lattice. Here, we use the random-phase approximation to investigate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-23 Mehdi Biderang , Mohammad-Hossein Zare , Jesko Sirker

Fully gapped, spin singlet superconductors with antisymmetric spin-orbit coupling in a Zeeman magnetic field provide a promising route to realize superconducting states with non-Abelian topological order and therefore fault-tolerant quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-14 Peter Doak , Giovanni Balduzzi , Pontus Laurell , Elbio Dagotto , Thomas A. Maier