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We uncover a novel two-particle Berry phase mechanism to realize exotic corner modes in second-order topological insulators (TIs) and topological superconductors (TSCs) with time-reversal symmetry. We show that the nontrivial pseudospin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-14 Yi Tan , Zhi-Hao Huang , Xiong-Jun Liu

Topological crystalline insulators (TCI) possess electronic states protected by crystal symmetries, rather than time-reversal symmetry. We show that the transition metal oxides with heavy transition metals are able to support nontrivial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 Mehdi Kargarian , Gregory A. Fiete

A time reversal invariant (TRI) topological superconductor has a full pairing gap in the bulk and topologically protected gapless states on the surface or at the edge. In this paper, we show that in the weak pairing limit, the topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-04-06 Xiao-Liang Qi , Taylor L. Hughes , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Intrinsic topological superconductors have protected gapless Majorana modes, bound and/or propagating, at the natural boundaries of the sample, without requiring field, defect, or heterostructure. We establish the complete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-23 Zhongyi Zhang , Jie Ren , Yang Qi , Chen Fang

While the topological classification of insulators, semimetals, and superconductors in terms of nonspatial symmetries is well understood, less is known about topological states protected by crystalline symmetries, such as mirror reflections…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 Ching-Kai Chiu , Andreas P. Schnyder

We propose to study the lattice-symmetry protection of Majorana zero bound modes in topological crystalline superconductors (SCs). With an induced $s$-wave superconductivity in the $(001)$-surface of the topological crystalline insulator…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-28 Xiong-Jun Liu , James J. He , K. T. Law

We show that time-reversal invariant superconductors in d=2 (d=3) dimensions can support topologically stable Fermi points (lines), characterized by an integer topological charge. Combining this with the momentum space symmetries present,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-04-22 B. Béri

Topological crystalline phases (TCPs) are topological states protected by spatial symmetries. A broad range of TCPs have been conventionally studied by formulating topological invariants (symmetry indicators) at invariant momenta in the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-07-01 Ian Mondragon-Shem , Taylor L. Hughes

Topological crystalline superconductors have attracted rapidly rising attention due to the possibility of higher-order phases, which support Majorana modes on boundaries in $d-2$ or lower dimensions. However, although the classification and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-24 Sheng-Jie Huang , Yi-Ting Hsu

Topological materials with both insulating and semimetal phases can be protected by crystalline (e.g. mirror) symmetry. The insulating phase, called topological crystalline insulator (TCI), has been intensively investigated and observed in…

We introduce the concept of 3D Dirac (Weyl) superconductors (SC), which have protected bulk four(two)-fold nodal points and surface Andreev arcs at zero energy. We provide a sufficient criterion for realizing them in centrosymmetric SCs…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-07-24 Shengyuan A. Yang , Hui Pan , Fan Zhang

The interplay of time-reversal and $n$-fold rotation symmetries ($n=2,4,6$) is known to bring a new class of topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) having $n$ surface Dirac cones due to surface rotation anomaly. We show that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-25 Shingo Kobayashi , Akira Furusaki

We classify discrete-rotation symmetric topological crystalline superconductors (TCS) in two dimensions and provide the criteria for a zero energy Majorana bound state (MBS) to be present at composite defects made from magnetic flux,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-23 Wladimir A. Benalcazar , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo , Taylor L. Hughes

We systematically study topological phases of insulators and superconductors (SCs) in 3D. We find that there exist 3D topologically non-trivial insulators or SCs in 5 out of 10 symmetry classes introduced by Altland and Zirnbauer within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-15 Andreas P. Schnyder , Shinsei Ryu , Akira Furusaki , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

Topological nodal-line semimetals are characterized by one-dimensional Dirac nodal rings that are protected by the combined symmetry of inversion $\mathcal{P}$ and time-reversal $\mathcal{T}$. The stability of these Dirac rings is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 W. B. Rui , Y. X. Zhao , Andreas P. Schnyder

We find a new class of topological superconductors which possess an emergent time-reversal symmetry that is present only after projecting to an effective low-dimensional model. We show that a topological phase in symmetry class DIII can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Christopher Reeg , Constantin Schrade , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Crystal point group symmetry is shown to protect Majorana fermions (MFs) in spinfull superconductors (SCs). We elucidate the condition necessary to obtain MFs protected by the point group symmetry. We argue that superconductivity in Sr2RuO4…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-22 Yuji Ueno , Ai Yamakage , Yukio Tanaka , Masatoshi Sato

We propose a minimal lattice model for two-dimensional class DIII superconductors with $C_2$-protected higher-order topology. While this class of superconductors cannot be topologically characterized by symmetry eigenvalues at high symmetry…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-25 DinhDuy Vu , Rui-Xing Zhang , Sankar Das Sarma

We present a time-reversal invariant s-wave superconductor supporting Majorana edge modes. The multi-band character of the model together with spin-orbit coupling are key to realizing such a topological superconductor. We characterize the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-30 Shusa Deng , Lorenza Viola , Gerardo Ortiz

We construct time reversal invariant topological superconductors and superfluids in two and three dimensions which are analogous to the recently discovered quantum spin Hall and three-d $Z_2$ topological insulators respectively. These…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Xiao-Liang Qi , Taylor L. Hughes , Srinivas Raghu , Shou-Cheng Zhang