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Recently, the search for Majorana fermions (MFs) has become one of the most important and exciting issues in condensed matter physics since such an exotic quasiparticle is expected to potentially give rise to unprecedented quantum phenomena…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-22 Satoshi Sasaki , Takeshi Mizushima

The study of exotic superconductivity in two dimensions has been a central theme in solid state and materials research communities. Experimentally exploring and identifying new fascinating interface superconductors with a high transition…

Topological insulator (TI) nanoribbons with proximity-induced superconductivity are a promising platform for Majorana bound states (MBSs). In this work, we consider a detailed modeling approach for a TI nanoribbon in contact with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 Dennis Heffels , Declan Burke , Malcolm R. Connolly , Peter Schüffelgen , Detlev Grützmacher , Kristof Moors

Van der Waals materials like NbSe$_2$ or TaS$_2$ have demonstrated Ising superconductivity down to atomically thin layers. Due to the spin-orbit coupling, these superconductors have the in-plane upper critical magnetic field far beyond the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-10-05 Xiaodong Hu , Ying Ran

Proximity induced superconducting energy gap in the surface states of topological insulators has been predicted to host the much wanted Majorana fermions for fault tolerant quantum computation. Recent theoretically proposed architectures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Biplab Bhattacharyya , V. P. S. Awana , T. D. Senguttuvan , V. N. Ojha , Sudhir Husale

Realizing topological superconductivity in stoichiometric materials is a key challenge in condensed matter physics. Here, we report the discovery of ternary germanide superconductors, $M$IrGe ($M$ = Ti, Hf), as prime candidates for…

The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in Fe-based compounds [1,2] has triggered numerous investigations on the interplay between superconductivity and magnetism [3] and, more recently, on the enhancement of transition…

Topological superconductors have drawn significant interest from the scientific community due to the accompanying Majorana fermions. Here, we report the discovery of electronic structure and superconductivity in high-entropy ceramics…

Although the pairing glue for the attractive quasiparticle interaction responsible for unconventional superconductivity in heavy electron materials has been identified as the spin fluctuations that arise from their proximity to a magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-03 Yi-feng Yang , David Pines

A heterostructure consisting of a topological insulator (TI) nanowire brought into proximity with a superconducting layer provides a promising route to achieve topological superconductivity and associated Majorana bound states (MBSs). Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Henry F. Legg , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

The search for topological superconductors which support Majorana fermion excitations has been an important topic in condensed matter physics. In this work, we propose a new experimental scheme for engineering topological superconductors.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-20 Yao Lu , Wen-Yu He , Dong-Hui Xu , Nian Lin , K. T. Law

A feasible strategy to realize the Majorana fermions is searching for a simple compound with both bulk superconductivity and Dirac surface states. In this paper, we performed calculations of electronic band structure, the Fermi surface and…

Two dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs) and topological superconductors (TSCs) have been intensively studied for recent years due to its great potential for dissipationless electron transportation and fault-tolerant quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-28 Chenxiao Zhao , Jinfeng Jia

Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer an extremely rich material platform in the exploration of unconventional superconductivity. The unconventional aspects include exotic coupling mechanisms such as the Ising pairing, a complex…

We consider an isolated vortex in the two-dimensional proximity-induced superconducting state formed at the interface of a three-dimensional strong topological insulator (TI) and an s-wave superconductor (sSC). Prior calculations of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-09 Adam C. Durst

Motivated by recent progress in crystalline symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases of interacting bosons, we study topological crystalline insulators/superconductors (TCIs) of strongly interacting fermions. We construct a class of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-31 Alex Rasmussen , Yuan-Ming Lu

We propose an experiment-based strategy for finding new high transition temperature superconductors that is based on the well-established spin fluctuation magnetic gateway to superconductivity in which the attractive quasiparticle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-11-19 David Pines

Topological insulators (TIs) are a class of materials characterized by an insulting bulk and high mobility topologically protected surface states, making them promising candidates for future optoelectronic and quantum devices. Although…

We have performed angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy on a heterostructure consisting of topological insulator Bi2Te3 and iron chalcogenide FeTe fabricated on SrTiO3 substrate by molecular-beam-epitaxy technique. This system was…

We have performed angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy on Tl0.5Bi2Te3, a possible topological superconductor derived from Bi2Te3. We found that the bulk Fermi surface consists of multiple three-dimensional hole pockets surrounding the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-28 C. X. Trang , Z. Wang , D. Takane , K. Nakayama , S. Souma , T. Sato , T. Takahashi , A. A. Taskin , Yoichi Ando