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We examine theoretically the visualization of Majorana fermions in a two-dimensional trapped ultracold atomic Fermi gas with spin-orbit coupling. By increasing an external Zeeman field, the trapped gas transits from non-topological to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-02-24 Xia-Ji Liu , Lei Jiang , Han Pu , Hui Hu

We study topological vortex phases in iron-based superconductors. Besides the previously known vortex end Majorana zero modes (MZMs) phase stemming from the existence of a three dimensional (3D) strong topological insulator state, we show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-05 Shengshan Qin , Lunhui Hu , Xianxin Wu , Xia Dai , Chen Fang , Fu-chun Zhang , Jiangping Hu

We investigate a mechanism to produce superconductivity by strong purely repulsive interactions for flat dispersion $\varepsilon \sim k^4$, without using pairing instability in Fermi-liquid. The resulting superconductors break both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-24 Minho Kim , Abigail Timmel , Long Ju , Xiao-Gang Wen

An interplay between pairing and topological orders has been predicted to give rise to superconducting states supporting exotic emergent particles, such as Majorana particles obeying non-Abelian braid statistics. We consider a system of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-10 Jonathan Schirmer , C. -X. Liu , J. K. Jain

We predict surface-induced odd-frequency (odd-$\nu$) spin-triplet superconducting pairing can be a veritable signature of Majorana bound states (MBS) in a Josephson nodal $p$-wave superconductor ($p_{x}$)-spin flipper (SF)-nodal $p$-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Subhajit Pal , Colin Benjamin

Recently topological superconducting states has attracted a lot of interest. In this work, we consider a topo- logical superconductor with $Z_2$ topological mirror order [1] and s$\pm$-wave superconducting pairing symmetry, within a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-18 Yuan-Yen Tai , Hongchul Choi , Towfiq Ahmed , C. S. Ting , Jian-Xin Zhu

The recently discovered superconductor CuxBi2Se3[1] is a candidate for three-dimensional time-reversal-invariant topological superconductors[2], which are predicted to have robust surface Andreev bound states hosting massless Majorana…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-10-12 Timothy H. Hsieh , Liang Fu

Due to the structure of the underlying SO(3) $\mathbf d$-vector order parameter, spin triplet superconductors exhibit a bulk-edge correspondence linking the circulation of supercurrent to the bulk magnetic skyrmion density, giving rise to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Chau Dao , Eric Kleinherbers , Bjørnulf Brekke , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We find that the vortex bound states in superconducting topological semimetals are gapless owing to topological massless excitations in their normal states. We demonstrate this universal result in a variety of semimetals including Dirac and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-28 Yi Zhang , Shengshan Qin , Kun Jiang , Jiangping Hu

The natural existence of crystalline symmetry in real materials manifests the importance of understanding crystalline symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases, especially for interacting systems. In this paper, we systematically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-19 Jian-Hao Zhang , Shang-Qiang Ning , Yang Qi , Zheng-Cheng Gu

Motivated by a recent experiment on superfluid 3He-A confined in narrow parallel plates using a rotating cryostat, we explore possible vortices stable under magnetic field applied to arbitrary angle relative to the plates in order to seek…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-04-15 Takuto Kawakami , Yasumasa Tsutsumi , Kazushige Machida

The recent phase sensitive measurements in the superconducting $B$-phase of UPt$_3$ provide strong evidence for the triplet, chiral $k_z(k_x \pm ik_y)^2$ pairing symmetries, which endow the Cooper pairs with orbital angular momentum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-20 Pallab Goswami , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

Due to the charge neutral and localized nature of surface Majorana modes, detection schemes usually rely on local spectroscopy or interference through the Josephson effect. Here, we theoretically study the magnetic response of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-09-20 Luca Chirolli , Francisco Guinea

Topological phases have been explored in various fields in physics such as spintronics, photonics, liquid helium, correlated electron system and cold-atomic system. This leads to the recent foundation of emerging materials such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-28 Ryuichi Shindou , Ryo Matsumoto , Shuichi Murakami , Jun-ichiro Ohe

Vortices in topological superconductors are predicted to host Majorana bound states (MBSs) as exotic quasiparticles. In recent experiments, the spatially non-split zero-energy vortex bound state in topological superconductors has been…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-12 Howon Kim , Yuki Nagai , Levente Rózsa , Dominik Schreyer , Roland Wiesendanger

As the spin-triplet superconductivity arises from the condensation of spinful Cooper pairs, its full characterization requires not only charge ordering, but also spin ordering. For a two-dimensional (2D) easy-plane spin-triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-24 Suk Bum Chung , Se Kwon Kim

Although the superconductivity in UPt_3 is one of the most well studied, there are still lingering questions about the nodal directions in the B and C phase in the presence of a magnetic field. Limiting ourselves to the low temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-02 P. Thalmeier , K. Maki

We demonstrate the occurrence of a topological phase transition induced by an effective magnetic field in a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit coupling and in proximity to an $s$-wave superconductor. The effective, perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-17 Paul Wenk , Milena Grifoni , John Schliemann

Higher-order topological superconductors host Majorana zero modes localized at corners or hinges, providing a promising route toward scalable and controllable Majorana networks without vortices or magnetic flux. Here we propose a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-06 Yongting Shi , Qing Wang , Zhen-Guo Fu , Ping Zhang , Ning Hao

We study phase-controlled planar Josephson junctions comprising a two-dimensional electron gas with strong spin-orbit coupling and d-wave superconductors, which have an advantage of high critical temperature. We show that a region between…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-08 Hamed Vakili , Moaz Ali , Mohamed Elekhtiar , Alexey A. Kovalev