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We demonstrate that a plethora of higher order topological phases emerge in magnet-superconductor hybrid (MSH) systems through the interplay of a stacked magnetic structure and an underlying triangular surface lattice; the latter being of…

Topological aspects of superconductivity in quantum spin-Hall systems (QSHSs) such as thin layers of three-dimensional topological insulators (3D Tis) or two-dimensional Tis are in the focus of current research. We examine hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 R. W. Reinthaler , G. Tkachov , E. M. Hankiewicz

The coexistence of superconductivity and fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect has recently been observed in twisted MoTe$_2$ and theoretically demonstrated in a model of repulsively interacting electrons under an emergent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-18 Daniele Guerci , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Liang Fu

We present a theoretical study of the interplay between topological p-wave superconductivity, orbital magnetic fields and quantum Hall phases in coupled wire systems. First, we calculate the phase diagram and physical observables of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-19 Fan Yang , Vivien Perrin , Alexandru Petrescu , Ion Garate , Karyn Le Hur

Topological superconductors support Majorana modes, which are quasiparticles that are their own antiparticles and which obey non-Abelian statistics in which successive exchanges of particles do not always commute. Here we investigate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-29 Jonathan Schirmer , J. K. Jain , C. -X. Liu

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

Topological phases like topological insulators or superconductors are fascinating quantum states of matter, featuring novel properties such as emergent chiral edge states or Majorana fermions with non-Abelian braiding statistics. The recent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-03-30 Bo Liu , Xiaopeng Li , W. Vincent Liu

We propose a novel realization for a topologically superconducting phase hosting Majorana zero-modes on the basis of quantum spin Hall systems. Remarkably, our proposal is completely free of ferromagnets. Instead, we confine helical edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 C. Fleckenstein , N. Traverso Ziani , A. Calzona , M. Sassetti , B. Trauzettel

We show that a two-dimensional topological superconductor (TSC) can be realized in a hybrid system with a conventional $s$-wave superconductor proximity-coupled to a quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state from the Rashba and exchange effects in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 L. Wang , M. W. Wu

We propose a possible mechanism of topological Hall effect in inhomogeneous superconducting states. In our scenario, the Berry phase effect associated with spatially modulated superconducting order parameter gives rise to a fictitious…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-11-21 Satoshi Fujimoto

In this paper we study an s-wave topological SC with a square vortex-lattice. We proposed a topological Majorana lattice model to describe this topological state. We found that the Majorana lattice model is really a "topological SC" on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-12-18 Jiang Zhou , Ya-Jie Wu , Rong-Wu Li , Jing He , Su-Peng Kou

We consider core-shell nanowires with prismatic geometry contacted with two or more superconductors in the presence of a magnetic field applied parallel to the wire. In this geometry, the lowest energy states are localized on the outer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Tudor D. Stanescu , Anna Sitek , Andrei Manolescu

The highly tunable nature of synthetic quantum materials -- both in the solid-state and cold atom contexts -- invites examining which microscopic ingredients aid in the realization of correlated phases of matter such as superconductors.…

Topological superconductors may undergo transitions between phases with different topological numbers which, like the case of topological insulators, are related to the presence of gapless (Majorana) edge states. In $\mathbb{Z}$ topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-15 Pedro D. Sacramento , Miguel A. N. Araújo , Eduardo V. Castro

We theoretically study the noncollinear magnetic texture effect on second-order topological superconductor (SOTSC) phase generated in unconventional $d$-wave superconductors and two-dimensional (2D) quantum spin Hall insulators (QSHI).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Minakshi Subhadarshini , Archana Mishra , Arijit Saha

With the recent discovery of the quantum anomalous Hall insulator (QAHI), which exhibits the conductive quantum Hall edge states without external magnetic field, it becomes possible to create a novel topological superconductor (SC) by…

We show that every even-denominator fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state possesses at least two robust, topologically distinct gapless edge phases if charge conservation is broken at the boundary by coupling to a superconductor. The new edge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-24 Maissam Barkeshli , Chetan Nayak

We consider a new model system supporting Majorana zero modes based on semiconductor nanowires with a full superconducting shell. We demonstrate that, in the presence of spin-orbit coupling in the semiconductor induced by a radial electric…

We demonstrate the emergence of novel topological phases in quantum Hall-superconductor hybrid systems driven by Landau level mixing and spin-orbit interactions. Focusing on a narrow superconducting stripe atop a two-dimensional electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Yuriko Baba , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Pablo Burset

Atomic manipulation and interface engineering techniques have provided a novel approach to custom-designing topological superconductors and the ensuing Majorana zero modes, representing a new paradigm for the realization of topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-18 Eric Mascot , Jasmin Bedow , Martin Graham , Stephan Rachel , Dirk K. Morr