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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

In this work, we show that an in-plane magnetic field can drive a fully gapped $p \pm i p$ topological superconductor into a gapless phase which supports symmetry protected Majorana edge states (MESs). Specifically, an in-plane magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-05 Chris L. M. Wong , Jie Liu , K. T. Law , Patrick A. Lee

We further investigate a class of time-reversal-invariant two-band s-wave topological superconductors introduced in Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 036803 (2012). We show how, in the presence of time-reversal symmetry, Z_2 invariants that distinguish…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-15 Shusa Deng , Gerardo Ortiz , Lorenza Viola

Topological superconductors are a class of unconventional superconducting materials featuring sub-gap zero-energy Majorana bound modes that hold promise as a building block for topological quantum computing. In this work, we study the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-30 Zi-Ming Wang , Meng Zeng , Chen Lu , Da-Shuai Ma , Rui-Xing Zhang , Lun-Hui Hu , Dong-Hui Xu

In this paper we find that confining a second-order topological superconductor with a harmonic potential leads to a proliferation of Majorana corner modes. As a consequence, this results in the formation of Majorana corner flat bands which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-05 Majid Kheirkhah , Yuki Nagai , Chun Chen , Frank Marsiglio

We study two-dimensional noncentrosymmetric nodal superconductors under Zeeman field and clarify the field angle dependence of topological properties. It has been shown that the nodal excitation acquires an excitation gap due to the Zeeman…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-02 Akito Daido , Youichi Yanase

Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter which can not be adiabatically connected to conventional insulators and semiconductors. They are characterized by a full insulating gap in the bulk and gapless edge or surface states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Zero-energy flat bands within the superconducting gap can give rise to competing ordered phases. We investigate such phases in topological superconductors based on the magnetic adatom platform hosting a flat band of Majorana edge states.…

Time-reversal-invariant topological superconductors have a full paring gap in the bulk and gapless Majorana states at the edge or on the surface. Here, we theoretically propose topological superconductivity in a doped quantum spin Hall…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-08-08 Jing Wang , Yong Xu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We investigate the topological phase diagram of {an extension of the Haldane model with equal spin pairing superconductivity}. In two dimensions, we find a topological nodal superconducting phase, which exhibits a chiral Majorana mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Simone Traverso , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Maura Sassetti , Fernando Dominguez

We study three-dimensional time-reversal-invariant topological superconductivity in noncentrosymmetric materials such as RhSi, CoSi, and AlPt which host coupled multifold nodes energetically split by the spin-orbit coupling at the same…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-11 Changhee Lee , Chiho Yoon , Taehyeok Kim , Suk Bum Chung , Hongki Min

As a half-metal is spin-polarized at its Fermi level by definition, it was conventionally thought to have little proximity effect to an s-wave superconductor. Here we show that, with interface spin-orbit coupling, $p_x +ip_y$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-17 Suk Bum Chung , Hai-Jun Zhang , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

A topological superconductor is characterized by having a pairing gap in the bulk and gapless self-hermitian Majorana modes at its boundary. In one dimension, these are zero-energy modes bound to the ends, while in two dimensions these are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-20 Arbel Haim , Yuval Oreg

We consider time-reversal-symmetric two-channel semiconducting quantum wires proximity coupled to an s-wave superconductor. We analyze the requirements for a nontrivial topological phase and find that necessary conditions are 1) the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-01 Erikas Gaidamauskas , Jens Paaske , Karsten Flensberg

Vortex lines, known as topological defects, are cable of trapping Majorana modes in superconducting topological materials. Previous studies have primarily focused on topological bands with conventional s-wave pairing. However, topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-02 Zhongyi Zhang , Zixi Fang , Shengshan Qin , Peng Zhang , Hoi Chun Po , Xianxin Wu

We study the quasiparticle spectrum of 2D topological $s$-wave superconductors with the Zeeman magnetic field and the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the presence of spatial inhomogeneity. Solving the real-space Bogoliubov-de Gennes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 Yuki Nagai , Yukihiro Ota , Masahiko Machida

We have experimentally realized novel space-time inversion (P-T) invariant Z2-type topological semimetal-bands, via an analogy between the momentum space and a controllable parameter space in superconducting quantum circuits. By measuring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Xinsheng Tan , Yuxin Zhao , Qiang Liu , Guangming Xue , Haifeng Yu , Zidan Wang , Yang Yu

We examine different topological phases in three-dimensional non-centrosymmetric superconductors with time-reversal symmetry by using three different types of topological invariants. Due to the bulk boundary correspondence, a non-zero value…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-16 Andreas P. Schnyder , Shinsei Ryu

There exists a variety of proposals to transform a conventional s-wave superconductor into a topological superconductor, supporting Majorana fermion mid-gap states. A necessary ingredient of these proposals is strong spin-orbit coupling.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 T. -P. Choy , J. M. Edge , A. R. Akhmerov , C. W. J. Beenakker

Recent years saw the complete classification of topological band structures, revealing an abundance of topological crystalline insulators. Here we theoretically demonstrate the existence of topological materials beyond this framework,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Daniel Varjas , Alexander Lau , Kim Pöyhönen , Anton R. Akhmerov , Dmitry I. Pikulin , Ion Cosma Fulga
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