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Implementing topological superconductivity (TSC) and Majorana states (MSs) is one of the most significant and challenging tasks in both fundamental physics and topological quantum computations. In this work, taking the obstructed atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-09 Jingnan Hu , Fei Yu , Aiyun Luo , Jinyu Zou , Xin Liu , Gang Xu

Topological superconductors (SCs) are novel phases of matter with nontrivial bulk topology. They host at their boundaries and vortex cores zero-energy Majorana bound states, potentially useful in fault-tolerant quantum computation. Chiral…

We show that the fundamental time reversal invariant (TRI) insulator exists in 4+1 dimensions, where the effective field theory is described by the 4+1 dimensional Chern-Simons theory and the topological properties of the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiao-Liang Qi , Taylor Hughes , Shou-Cheng Zhang

In condensed matter physics, symmetry profoundly governs the fundamentals of topological matter. The emergence of new topological phase is typically linked to the enrichment of symmetries. Different parity-time symmetry relations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Xiao Xiang , Feng Gao , Yugui Peng , Qili Sun , Jie Zhu , Xuefeng Zhu

We study the effect of electron interactions in topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) protected by mirror symmetry, which are realized in the SnTe material class and host multi-valley Dirac fermion surface states. We find that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-19 Hiroki Isobe , Liang Fu

The topological superconducting state is a highly sought-after quantum state hosting topological order and Majorana excitations. In this work, we explore the mechanism to realize the topological superconductivity (TSC) in the doped Mott…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-03 Yixuan Huang , Shou-Shu Gong , D. N. Sheng

We describe the mean-field model of a one-dimensional topological superconductor with two orbitals per unit cell. Time-reversal symmetry is absent, but a nonsymmorphic symmetry, involving a translation by a fraction of the unit cell, mimics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Max Tymczyszyn , Edward McCann

We theoretically study superconducting proximity effect between a topological insulator (TI) and a high-temperature d-wave superconductor (dSC). When the TI-dSC heterostructure violates 90 degree-rotation and certain reflection symmetries,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-30 Zi-Xiang Li , Cheung Chan , Hong Yao

Dirac semimetal is a class of semi-metallic phase protected by certain types of crystalline symmetries, and its low-energy effective Hamiltonian is described by Dirac equations in three dimensions (3D). Despite of various theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 Rui-Xing Zhang , Chao-Xing Liu

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

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

Three-dimensional topological (crystalline) insulators are materials with an insulating bulk, but conducting surface states which are topologically protected by time-reversal (or spatial) symmetries. Here, we extend the notion of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Frank Schindler , Ashley M. Cook , Maia G. Vergniory , Zhijun Wang , Stuart S. P. Parkin , B. Andrei Bernevig , Titus Neupert

Dirac semimetals, with their protected Dirac points, present an ideal platform for realizing intrinsic topological superconductivity. In this work, we investigate superconductivity in a two-dimensional, square-lattice nonsymmorphic Dirac…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-03 Xiao-Jiao Wang , Yijie Mo , Zhi Wang , Zhigang Wu , Zhongbo Yan

In this work, we show that a quasi-one-dimensional $d_{x^2-y^2}$-wave superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling is a topological superconductor (TS). This time-reversal invariant DIII class TS supports two topologically protected zero…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-01-31 L. M. Wong , K. T. Law

We study topological transitions in one dimensional superconductors that can harbor multiple edge Majorana bound states protected by chiral symmetry. The chiral symmetry arises due to the structure of the internal spin degrees of freedom of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-05 Kristian Løvås Svalland , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Mario Cuoco

Multiple zero-energy Majorana fermions (MFs) with spatially overlapping wave functions can survive only if their splitting is prevented by an underlying symmetry. Here we show that, in quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) time reversal invariant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-30 E. Dumitrescu , T. D. Stanescu , S. Tewari

Topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) are classified by topological invariants defined with respect to the crystalline symmetries of their gapped bulk. The bulk-boundary correspondence then links the topological properties of the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Gengming Liu , Violet Workman , Jiho Noh , Yuhao Ma , Taylor L. Hughes , Wladimir A. Benalcazar , Gaurav Bahl

Topological crystalline insulators (TCI) are new topological phases of matter protected by crystal symmetry of solids. Recently, the first realization of TCI has been predicted and observed in IV-VI semiconductor SnTe and related alloys…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-18 Junwei Liu , Wenhui Duan , Liang Fu

We study the electronic surface states of the semiconducting alloy BiSb. Using a phenomenological tight binding model we show that the Fermi surface of the 111 surface states encloses an odd number of time reversal invariant momenta (TRIM)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeffrey C. Y. Teo , Liang Fu , C. L. Kane

Topological semimetals have energy bands near the Fermi energy sticking together at isolated points/lines/planes in the momentum space, which are often accompanied by stable surface states and intriguing bulk topological responses. Although…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-01 Bohm-Jung Yang , Troels Arnfred Bojesen , Takahiro Morimoto , Akira Furusaki