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We propose a new mechanism for topological superconductivity based on an antiferromagnetically ordered chain of magnetic atoms on the surface of a conventional superconductor. In a weak Zeeman field, a supercurrent in the substrate…

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Photons, unlike electrons, do not couple directly to magnetic fields, yet synthetic gauge fields can impart magnetic-like responses and enable directional transport. Discretized Floquet evolution provides a controlled route, where the…

Floquet engineering with high-frequency light offers dynamic control over topological phases in quantum materials. While in 3D Dirac systems circularly polarized light is known to induce topological phase transitions via gap opening,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Mohammad Shafiei , Farhad Fazileh , Milorad V. Milošević

The search for robust topological superconductivity and Majorana bound states continues, exploring both one-dimensional (1D) systems such as semiconducting nanowires and two-dimensional (2D) platforms. In this work we study a 2D approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-21 Fernando Peñaranda , Ramón Aguado , Elsa Prada , Pablo San-Jose

Topological superconductors are an intriguing and elusive quantum phase, characterized by topologically protected gapless surface/edge states residing in a bulk superconducting gap, which hosts Majorana fermions. Unfortunately, all…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-10 Kyung-Hwan Jin , Huaqing Huang , Jia-Wei Mei , Zheng Liu , Lih-King Lim , Feng Liu

Chiral Majorana edge modes are theoretically proposed to perform braiding operations for the potential quantum computation. Here, we suggest a scheme to regulate trajectories of the chiral Majorana fermion based on a quantum anomalous Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Qing Yan , Yan-Feng Zhou , Qing-Feng Sun

We show that one-dimensional Floquet trimer arrays with periodically oscillating waveguides support two different and co-existing types of topological Floquet edge states in two different topological gaps in Floquet spectrum. In these…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-15 Shuang Shen , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Yongdong Li , Yiqi Zhang

We present a unified study of the effect of periodic, quasiperiodic and disordered potentials on topological phases that are characterized by Majorana end modes in 1D p-wave superconducting systems. We define a topological invariant derived…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-09 Wade DeGottardi , Diptiman Sen , Smitha Vishveshwara

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

Many striking non-equilibrium phenomena have been discovered or predicted in optically-driven quantum solids, ranging from light-induced superconductivity to Floquet-engineered topological phases. These effects are expected to lead to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-13 J. W. McIver , B. Schulte , F. -U. Stein , T. Matsuyama , G. Jotzu , G. Meier , A. Cavalleri

In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 156801 (2014)], Grushin et al. studied a Fermi-Hubbard-model for spinful electrons on a honeycomb lattice coupled to an external polarized electric field. By computing the Floquet Hamiltonian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-12 Luca D'Alessio

We consider the fate of a helical edge state of a spin Hall insulator and its topological transition in presence of a circularly polarized light when coupled to various forms of environments. A Lindblad type equation is developed to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-28 Szabolcs Vajna , Baruch Horovitz , Balázs Dóra , Gergely Zaránd

Time-periodic driving fields could endow a system with peculiar topological and transport features. In this work, we find dynamically controlled localization transitions and mobility edges in non-Hermitian quasicrystals via shaking the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Longwen Zhou

We proposed a minimal model to describe the Floquet band structure of two-dimensional materials with light-induced resonant inter-band transition. We applied it to graphene to study the band features caused by the light irradiation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Mou Yang , Zhi-Jun Cai , Rui-Qiang Wang , Yan-Kui Bai

Signatures of Majorana fermion bound states in one-dimensional topological insulator (TI) nanowires with proximity effect induced superconductivity are studied. The phase diagram and energy spectra are calculated for single TI nanowires and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Guang-Yao Huang , H. Q. Xu

The functionalized graphene with induced superconductivity, Zeeman coupling, and finite Rashba spin-orbit coupling is proposed to display topological superconducting phases with Majorana end modes. We obtain the phase diagram of bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-21 Zhen-Hua Wang , Eduardo V. Castro , Hai-Qing Lin

We propose a scenario to create topological superfluid in a periodically driven two-dimensional square optical lattice. We study the phase diagram of a spin-orbit coupled s-wave pairing superfluid in a periodically driven two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Guocai Liu , Ningning Hao , Shi-Liang Zhu , W. M. Liu

Recently, Majorana Fermions (MFs) have attracted intensive attention due to their exotic statistics and possible applications in topological quantum computation (TQC). They are proposed to exist in various two-dimensional (2D) topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Qiu-Bo Cheng , Jing He , Su-Peng Kou

Electromagnetic driving in a honeycomb lattice can induce gaps and topological edge states with a structure of increasing complexity as the frequency of the driving lowers. While the high frequency case is the most simple to analyze we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-22 Pablo M. Perez-Piskunow , Luis E. F. Foa Torres , Gonzalo Usaj

Periodically driven quantum systems known as Floquet insulators can host topologically protected bound states known as "$\pi$ modes" that exhibit response at half the frequency of the drive. Such states can also appear in undriven lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Thomas Iadecola , Srimoyee Sen , Lars Sivertsen