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We study an interface between a Kitaev spin liquid (KSL) in the chiral phase and a non-chiral superconductor. When the coupling across the interface is sufficiently strong, the interface undergoes a transition into a phase characterized by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-22 Gilad Kishony , Erez Berg

Quantum anomalous Hall effect, with a trademark of dissipationless chiral edge states for electronics/spintronics transport applications, can be realized in materials with large spin-orbit coupling and strong intrinsic magnetization. After…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Muhammad Nadeem , Alex R. Hamilton , Michael S. Fuhrer , Xiaolin Wang

Interacting fermionic chains exhibit extended regions of topological degeneracy of their ground states as a result of the presence of Majorana or parafermionic zero modes localized at the edges. In the opposite limit of infinite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-29 Niklas Tausendpfund , Aditi Mitra , Matteo Rizzi

Altermagnetism provides new routes to realize Majorana zero modes with vanishing net magnetization. We consider a recently proposed heterostructure consisting of a semiconducting wire on top of an altermagnet and with proximity-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Andreas Hadjipaschalis , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Jennifer Cano

After a recent series of rapid and exciting developments, the long search for the Majorana fermion - the elusive quantum entity at the border between particles and antiparticles - has produced the first positive experimental results, but is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-14 Tudor D. Stanescu , Sumanta Tewari

The formation and various possible decay processes of neutral and charged excitonic complexes in electronic integral and fractional quantum Hall systems are discussed. The excitonic complexes are bound states of a small number of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arkadiusz Wojs , John J Quinn

Understanding topological matter in the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect requires identifying the nature of edge state quasiparticles. FQH edge state at the filling factor $\nu=2/3$ in the spin-polarized and non-polarized phases is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Vadim Ponomarenko , Yuli Lyanda-Geller

We theoretically propose a one-dimensional electronic nanodevice inspired in recently fabricated semiconductor-superconductor-ferromagnetic insulator (SE-SC-FMI) hybrid heterostructures, and investigate its zero-temperature transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Javier Feijóo , Aníbal Iucci , Alejandro M. Lobos

The plateau-to-plateau transition in quantum Hall effect under high magnetic fields is a celebrated quantum phase transition between two topological states through either sweeping the magnetic field or tuning the carrier density. The recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Yi-Fan Zhao , Ruoxi Zhang , Ling-Jie Zhou , Ruobing Mei , Zi-Jie Yan , Moses H. W. Chan , Chao-Xing Liu , Cui-Zu Chang

In this work we discuss the formation of zero energy vortex and chiral edge modes in a fermionic representation of the Kitaev honeycomb model. We introduce the representation and show how the associated Jordan-Wigner procedure naturally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-26 G. Kells , J. Vala

We study a delocalization transition for non-interacting quasiparticles moving in two dimensions, which belongs to a new symmetry class. This symmetry class can be realised in a dirty, gapless superconductor in which time reversal symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Kagalovsky , B. Horovitz , Y. Avishai , J. T. Chalker

We show that the electric charge of the Skyrmion in the vector order parameters that characterize the quantum anomalous spin Hall state and the layer-antiferromagnet in a graphene bilayer is four and zero, respectively. The result is based…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-28 Chi-Ken Lu , Igor F. Herbut

We introduce a class of superconductors termed "quantized quadrupole superconductors" that support Majorana corner modes according to the bulk-corner correspondence, distinct from previous works on the second-order topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-24 Yun-Mei Li , Yongwei Huang , Kai Chang

We theoretically report the emergence of $Z_4$ parafermion edge modes in a periodically driven spinful superconducting chain with modest fermionic Hubbard interaction. These parafermion edge modes represent $\pm \pi/(2T)$ quasienergy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Raditya Weda Bomantara

Recent observation of zero bias conductance peaks in semiconductor wire/superconductor heterostructures has generated great interest, and there is a hot debate on whether the observation is associated with Majorana fermions (MFs). Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jie Liu , Fu-Chun Zhang , K. T. Law

Majorana zero modes are localized quasiparticles that obey non-Abelian exchange statistics. Braiding Majorana zero modes forms the basis of topologically protected quantum operations which could in principle significantly reduce qubit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Hao Zhang , Dong E. Liu , Michael Wimmer , Leo P. Kouwenhoven

We study the reflection of electrons and quasiparticles on point-contact interfaces between fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states and normal metals (leads), as well as interfaces between two FQH states with mismatched filling fractions. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Nancy P. Sandler , Claudio de C. Chamon , Eduardo Fradkin

We present a detailed theoretical description of quantum coherent electron transport in voltage-biased cross-like Andreev interferometers. Making use of the charge conjugation symmetry encoded in the quasiclassical formalism, we elucidate a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-08-21 Pavel E. Dolgirev , Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei E. Tarkhov , Andrei D. Zaikin

Recent experimental efforts towards the detection of Majorana bound states have focused on creating the conditions for topological superconductivity. Here we demonstrate an alternative route, which achieves fully localised zero-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-07 Pablo San-Jose , Jorge Cayao , Elsa Prada , Ramón Aguado

Topological insulators doped with transition metals have recently been found to host a strong ferromagnetic state with perpendicular to plane anisotropy as well as support a quantum Hall state with edge channel transport, even in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 S. Grauer , S. Schreyeck , M. Winnerlein , K. Brunner , C. Gould , L. W. Molenkamp