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Chiral superconductors have the ability to host topologically protected Majorana zero modes which have been proposed as future qubits for topological quantum computing. The recently introduced magnet--superconductor hybrid (MSH) systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Eric Mascot , Sagen Cocklin , Stephan Rachel , Dirk K. Morr

Electrons in moir\'e flat band systems can spontaneously break time reversal symmetry, giving rise to a quantized anomalous Hall effect. Here we use a superconducting quantum interference device to image stray magnetic fields in one such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 C. L. Tschirhart , M. Serlin , H. Polshyn , A. Shragai , Z. Xia , J. Zhu , Y. Zhang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. E. Huber , A. F. Young

It has been proposed that band-inverted electron-hole bilayers support a phase transition from an insulating phase with spontaneously broken time-reversal symmetry to a quantum spin Hall insulator phase as a function of increasing electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Tania Paul , V. Fernández Becerra , Timo Hyart

A sign of topological order in a gapped one-dimensional quantum chain is the existence of edge zero modes. These occur in the Z_2-invariant Ising/Majorana chain, where they can be understood using free-fermion techniques. Here I discuss…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-11 Paul Fendley

We show that interacting electrons in a flat Chern band can form, in addition to fractional Chern insulators, a chiral $f$-wave topological superconductor that hosts neutral Majorana fermion edge modes. Superconductivity emerges from an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-23 Daniele Guerci , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Liang Fu

The presence of chiral modes on the edges of quantum Hall samples is essential to our understanding of the quantum Hall effect. In particular, these edge modes should support ballistic transport and therefore, in a single particle picture,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 Alex Bols , Albert H. Werner

Under certain conditions, a fermion in a superconductor can separate in space into two parts known as Majorana zero modes, which are immune to decoherence from local noise sources and are attractive building blocks for quantum computers.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-04-14 Sujit Manna , Peng Wei , Yingming Xie , Kam Tuen Law , Patrick Lee , Jagadeesh Moodera

We consider a hybrid quantum Hall-superconductor system, where a superconducting finger with oblique profile is wedged into a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field, as considered by Lee et al., Nat.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-16 Tamás Haidekker Galambos , Flavio Ronetti , Bence Hetényi , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

Magnet-superconductor hybrid (MSH) systems represent promising platforms to host Majorana zero modes (MZMs), the elemental building blocks for fault-tolerant quantum computers. Theoretical description of such MSH structures is mostly based…

In magnetically doped thin-film topological insulators, aligning the magnetic moments generates a quantum anomalous Hall phase supporting a single chiral edge state. We show that as the system de-magnetizes, disorder from randomly oriented…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-30 Arbel Haim , Roni Ilan , Jason Alicea

Engineering chiral $p$-wave superconductivity in semiconductor structures offers fascinating ways to obtain and study Majorana modes in a condensed matter context. Here, we theoretically investigate chiral $p$-wave superconductivity in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 Benedikt Scharf , Igor Žutić

While altermagnetic materials are characterized by a vanishing net magnetic moment, their symmetry in principle allows for the existence of an anomalous Hall effect (AHE). Here we introduce a model with altermagnetism in which the emergence…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-05 Toshihiro Sato , Sonia Haddad , Ion Cosma Fulga , Fakher F. Assaad , Jeroen van den Brink

The effect of multiple topological transitions for electron-hole excitations is discovered in full shell proximitized semiconducting nanowires with trapped superconducting vortices, recently shown to be a promising platform for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-23 A. A. Kopasov , A. S. Mel'nikov

Majorana zero modes at the boundaries of topological superconductors are charge-neutral, an equal superposition of electrons and holes. This ideal situation is, however, hard to achieve in physical implementations, such as proximitised…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-09 Fernando Domínguez , Jorge Cayao , Pablo San-Jose , Ramón Aguado , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Elsa Prada

Chiral edge states are a hallmark of quantum Hall physics. In electronic systems, they appear as a macroscopic consequence of the cyclotron orbits induced by a magnetic field, which are naturally truncated at the physical boundary of the…

Parafermionic zero modes are non-Abelian excitations which have been predicted to emerge at the boundary of topological phases of matter. Contrary to earlier proposals, here we show that such zero modes may also exist in multilegged star…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-14 Udit Khanna , Moshe Goldstein , Yuval Gefen

When magnetic skyrmions are moved via currents, they do not strictly travel along the path of the current, instead their motion also gains a transverse component. This so-called skyrmion Hall effect can be detrimental in potential skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Jonas Spethmann , Elena Y. Vedmedenko , Roland Wiesendanger , André Kubetzka , Kirsten von Bergmann

We propose and study a parafermionic generalization of the topological Kondo effect. The latter has been predicted to arise for a Coulomb-blockaded mesoscopic topological superconductor (Majorana box), where at least three normal leads are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-26 Kyrylo Snizhko , Francesco Buccheri , Reinhold Egger , Yuval Gefen

Majorana zero bound mode exists in the vortex core of a chiral $p+ip$ superconductor or superfluid, which can be driven from an s-wave pairing state by two-dimensional (2D) spin-orbit (SO) coupling. We propose here a novel scheme based on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-02-27 Xiong-Jun Liu , K. T. Law , T. K. Ng

There has been recent interest in superconductor-magnetic insulator hybrid Rashba nanowire setups for potentially hosting Majorana zero modes at smaller external Zeeman fields. Using the non-equilibrium Green's function technique, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-27 Roshni Singh , Bhaskaran Muralidharan