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Topological superconductors, characterized by topologically nontrivial states residing in a superconducting gap, are a recently discovered class of materials having Majorana Fermions. The interplay of superconductivity and topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-12 Peng-Fei Liu , Jingyu Li , Xin-Hai Tu , Huabing Yin , Baisheng Sa , Junrong Zhang , David J. Singh , Bao-Tian Wang

In proximity to an s-wave superconductor, a one- or two-dimensional, electron- or hole-doped semiconductor with a sizable spin-orbit coupling and a Zeeman splitting can support a topological superconducting (TS) state. The semiconductor TS…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-02-28 Jay D. Sau , Sumanta Tewari , S. Das Sarma

The combination of superconductivity and spin-momentum locking at the interface between an s-wave superconductor and a three-dimensional topological insulator (3D-TI) is predicted to generate exotic p-wave topological superconducting phases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-19 Abhishek Banerjee , Ananthesh Sundaresh , R. Ganesan , P. S. Anil Kumar

We study multiband semiconducting nanowires proximity-coupled with an s-wave superconductor and calculate the topological phase diagram as a function of the chemical potential and magnetic field. The non-trivial topological state…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-19 Tudor Stanescu , Roman M. Lutchyn , S. Das Sarma

We performed angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy studies on a series of FeTe$_{1-x}$Se$_{x}$ monolayer films grown on SrTiO$_{3}$. The superconductivity of the films is robust and rather insensitive to the variations of the band…

Whereas SnTe is a inverted band gap topological crystalline insulator, the topological phase of the alloy Sn_{1-x}In_xTe, a topological superconductor candidate, has not been clearly studied so far. Our calculations show that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-19 Tome M. Schmidt , G. P. Srivastava

The iron-based superconductor FeTe$_{1-x}$Se$_{x}$ has attracted considerable attention as a candidate topological superconductor owing to a unique combination of topological surface states and bulk high-temperature superconductivity. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-15 Lianyang Dong , He Zhao , Ilija Zeljkovic , Stephen D. Wilson , John W. Harter

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

We present a combined experimental and theoretical study of the evolution of the Fermi surface of the anomalous superconductor Pb$_{1-x}$Tl$_x$Te as a function of thallium concentration, drawing on a combination of magnetotransport…

Thermal conductivity and specific heat were measured in the superconducting state of the heavy fermion material Ce_{1-x}La_{x}CoIn_{5}. With increasing impurity concentration x, the suppression of T_{c} is accompanied by the increase in the…

This is a colloquium-style introduction to the midgap excitations in superconductors known as Majorana fermions. These elusive particles, equal to their own antiparticle, may or may not exist in Nature as elementary building blocks, but in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 C. W. J. Beenakker

Recently topological superconductors emerge as a platform to realise Majorana Fermions which has potential application in topological quantum computation. Superconductivity in these materials can be realised by chemical doping, high…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-19 M. Mandal , R. P. Singh

In a variety of rare-earth based compounds singlet superconductivity coexists with helical magnetism. Here we demonstrate that surfaces of these systems should generically host a finite density of zero-energy Majorana modes. In the limit of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Ivar Martin , Alberto F. Morpurgo

The exploration of topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes has become a rapidly developing field. Many types of proposals to realize topological superconductors have been presented, and significant advances have been recently…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-11 Yupeng Li , Zhu-An Xu

Monolayer WTe$_2$, a centrosymmetric transition metal dichacogenide, has recently been established as a quantum spin Hall insulator and found superconducting upon gating. Here we study the pairing symmetry and topological nature of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-07 Yi-Ting Hsu , William S. Cole , Rui-Xing Zhang , Jay D. Sau

For topological insulators and topological crystalline insulators (TCIs), their exotic surface states are promising for fundamental condensed matter physics research as well as future electronics such as low-dissipation electronics and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-16 Jie Shen , John M. Woods , Y. Xie , M. D. Morales-Acosta , Judy J. Cha

We show that carbon nanotubes (CNT) are good candidates for realizing one-dimensional topological superconductivity with Majorana fermions localized near the end points. The physics behind topological superconductivity in CNT is novel and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-14 Jay D. Sau , Sumanta Tewari

Topological insulators are a newly discovered phase of matter characterized by a gapped bulk surrounded by novel conducting boundary states. Since their theoretical discovery, these materials have encouraged intense efforts to study their…

Topological superconductors are an exciting class of quantum materials from the point of view of the fundamental sciences and potential technological applications. Here, we report on the successful introduction of superconductivity in a…

Topological insulators, featuring bulk-boundary correspondence, have been realized on a large number of noncrystalline materials, among which amorphous network, quasicrystals and fractal lattices are the most prominent ones. By contrast,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-10 Sourav Manna , Sanjib Kumar Das , Bitan Roy