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In non-centrosymmetric superconductors, spin-orbit coupling can induce an unconventional superconducting state with a mixture of s-wave spin-singlet and p-wave spin-triplet channels, which leads to a variety of exotic phenomena, including…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-10-03 Jiabin Yu , Chao-Xing Liu

Topological nodal superconductors are generally realized based on unconventional pairings. In this work, we propose a minimal model to realize these topological nodal phases with only $s$-wave interaction. In our model the linear and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-31 Beibing Huang , Xiaosen Yang , Ning Xu , Ming Gong

Odd-frequency Cooper pairs are gathering attention for the convenience of investigating the edge state of topological superconductors including Majorana fermions. Although a spinless p-wave superconductor has only one Majorana fermion in a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-08 Daijiro Takagi , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Yukio Tanaka , Mario Cuoco

Superconductivity has been experimentally observed in monolayer WTe2, which in-plane field measurements suggested are of spin-triplet nature. Furthermore, it has been proposed that with a $p$-wave pairing, the material is a second-order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-07 Ammar Jahin , Yuxuan Wang

Recently it has been shown that multicomponent spin-orbit-coupled fermions in one-dimensional optical lattices can be viewed as spinless fermions moving in two-dimensional synthetic lattices with synthetic magnetic flux. The quantum Hall…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-11-03 Zhongbo Yan , Shaolong Wan , Zhong Wang

The intersection of two-dimensional superconductivity and topologically nontrivial states hosts a wide range of quantum phenomena, including Majorana fermions. Coexistence of topologically nontrivial states and superconductivity in a single…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-29 Athby H. Al-Tawhid , Jesse Kanter , Mehdi Hatefipour , Divine P. Kumah , Javad Shabani , Kaveh Ahadi

We theoretically study superconductivity in UTe$_2$, which is a recently-discovered strong candidate for an odd-parity spin-triplet superconductor. Theoretical studies for this compound faced difficulty because first-principles calculations…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-25 Jun Ishizuka , Shuntaro Sumita , Akito Daido , Youichi Yanase

The spin-orbital polarization of superconducting excitations in momentum space is shown to provide distinctive marks of unconventional pairing in the presence of inversion symmetry breaking.Taking the prototypical example of an electronic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-02 Yuri Fukaya , Shun Tamura , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco

Higher-order topological superfluids have gapped bulk and symmetry-protected Majorana zero modes with various localizations. Motivated by recent advances, we present a proposal for synthesizing multi-order topological superfluids that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-07-09 Yu-Biao Wu , Guang-Can Guo , Zhen Zheng , Xu-Bo Zou

Since the proposal of monopole Cooper pairing in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 067003 (2018)], considerable research efforts have been dedicated to the study of Cooper pairing order parameters constrained (or obstructed) by the nontrivial…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-30 Jiabin Yu , Yu-An Chen , Sankar Das Sarma

The pairing symmetry of superconducting states is a critical topic in the realm of topological superconductivity. However, the pairing symmetry of the $A\mathrm{V_3Sb_5}$ family, wherein $A=\mathrm{K,Rb,Cs}$, remains indeterminate. To…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-07 Zi-Qian Zhou , Weimin Wang , Zhi Wang , Dao-Xin Yao

One-dimensional (1D) topological superconductivity is a state of matter that is not found in nature. However, it can be realised, for example, by inducing superconductivity into the quantum spin Hall edge state of a two-dimensional…

The external controllability of topological superconductors and Majorana fermions would be important both for fundamental and practical interests. Here we predict the electric-field control of Majorana fermions in two-dimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-07 Jing Wang

Topological quantum computation using non-Abelian Majorana zero modes localized in proximitized semiconductor nanowires requires careful electrostatic control of wire-junctions so as to manipulate and braid the zero modes enabling anyonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 Tudor D. Stanescu , Sankar Das Sarma

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

Recently, superconductivity has been observed in twisted WSe$_2$ moir\'{e} structures (Xia et al., Nature 2024; Guo et al., Nature 2025). Its transition temperature is high, reaching a few percent of the Fermi temperature scale. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-02 Fang Xie , Lei Chen , Shouvik Sur , Yuan Fang , Jennifer Cano , Qimiao Si

We propose helical topological superconductivity away from the Fermi surface in three-dimensional time-reversal-symmetric odd-parity multiband superconductors. In these systems, pairing between electrons originating from different bands is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 Masoud Bahari , Song-Bo Zhang , Chang-An Li , Sang-Jun Choi , Philipp Rüßmann , Carsten Timm , Björn Trauzettel

We identify time-reversal symmetry breaking mixed-parity superconducting states that feature eight Majorana corner modes in properly cleaved three-dimensional cubic crystals. Namely, when an odd-parity isotropic $p$-wave pairing coexists…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-11 Bitan Roy , Vladimir Juricic

We investigate the role of the coupling between a spin-orbit coupled semiconductor nanowire and a conventional $s$-wave superconductor on the emergence of the topological superconducting phase with Majorana bound states in an applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Oladunjoye A. Awoga , Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We investigate the subgap spectrum and transport properties of the quantum dot placed on interface between metallic and superconducting leads and additionally side-coupled to the edge of topological superconducting (TS) chain, hosting the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-02 J. Baranski , A. Kobialka , T. Domanski