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Heavy metals, such as Au, Ag, and Pb, often have sharp surface states that are split by strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The strong spin-orbit coupling and two-dimensional nature of these surface states make them ideal platforms for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-13 Andrew C. Potter , Patrick A. Lee

Recent experiments announced an observation of topological superconductivity and Majorana quasiparticles in Shiba chains, consisting of an array of magnetic atoms deposited on top of a superconductor. In this work we study helical Shiba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Alex Westström , Kim Pöyhönen , Teemu Ojanen

Combination of proximity-induced superconductivity and ferromagnetic exchange field in a two-dimensional square-lattice antiferromagnet with spin-orbit coupling and nonsymmorphic symmetry can induce a topological superconductor phase with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-09 Ma Luo

An array of quantum wires is a natural starting point in realizing two-dimensional topological phases. We study a system of weakly coupled quantum wires with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, proximity coupled to a conventional s-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 Inbar Seroussi , Erez Berg , Yuval Oreg

Dirac semimetals are renowned for the host of singular symmetry-protected band degeneracies which can give rise to other exotic phases. In this work, we consider a two-dimensional Dirac semimetal stabilized by PT symmetry and nonsymmorphic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Yijie Mo , Xiao-Jiao Wang , Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Zhongbo Yan

We theoretically investigate the phase transition from a non-trivial topological $p$-wave superconductor to a trivial $s$-wave like superconducting phase through a gapless phase, driven by different magnetic textures as an one-dimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-08 Pritam Chatterjee , Saurabh Pradhan , Ashis K. Nandy , Arijit Saha

A detailed theory of a phase diagram of a 2D surface superconductor in a parallel magnetic field is presented. A spin-orbital interaction of the Rashba type is known to produce at a high magnetic field $h$ (and in the absence of impurities)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Ol'ga Dimitrova , M. V. Feigel'man

Shiba bands formed by overlapping Yu-Shiba-Rusinov subgap states in magnetic impurities on a superconductor play an important role in topological superconductors. Here, we theoretically demonstrate the existence of a new type of Shiba bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Ning Dai , Kai Li , Yan-Bin Yang , Yong Xu

In this work, we study how, with the aid of impurity engineering, two-dimensional $p$-wave superconductors can be employed as a platform for one-dimensional topological phases. We discover that, while chiral and helical parent states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Isac Sahlberg , Alex Westström , Kim Pöyhönen , Teemu Ojanen

A magnetic atomic impurity inside a superconductor locally distorts superconductivity. They scatter Cooper pairs as a potential with broken time-reversal symmetry, what leads to localized bound states with subgap excitation energies, named…

In the presence of both space and time reversal symmetries, an s-wave A1g superconducting state is usually topologically trivial. Here we demonstrate that an exception can take place in a type of nonsymmorphic lattice structures. We specify…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-17 Shengshan Qin , Chen Fang , Fu-Chun Zhang , Jiangping Hu

The chiral $p$-wave superconductor/superfluid in two dimensions (2D) is the simplest and most robust system for topological quantum computation . Candidates for such topological superconductors/superfluids in nature are very rare. A widely…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-27 Xi Luo , Yu-Ge Chen , Ziqiang Wang , Yue Yu

We propose a theoretical framework for generating gapless topological superconductivity (GTSC) hosting Majorana flat edge modes (MFEMs) in the presence of a two-dimensional (2D) array of magnetic adatoms with noncollinear spin texture…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-06 Minakshi Subhadarshini , Amartya Pal , Pritam Chatterjee , Arijit Saha

Regular arrays of magnetic atoms on a superconductor provide a promising platform for topological superconductivity. In this work we study effects of disorder in these systems, focusing on vacancies realized by missing magnetic atoms. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Alex Westström , Kim Pöyhönen , Teemu Ojanen

We consider the effects of magnetic impurities on the surface of superconducting Cu doped $Bi_{2}Se_{3}$ in the odd parity pairing phase which support topologically protected Majorana fermions surface states with linear spectrum. We show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-01-11 Ting-Pong Choy , K. T. Law , Tai-Kai Ng

We study surface zero-energy flat bands in three-dimensional chiral superconductors with $p_z (p_x +ip_y)^{\nu}$-wave pairing symmetry ($\nu$ is a nonzero integer), based on topological numbers and tunneling conductance. It is shown that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-12-31 Shingo Kobayashi , Yukio Tanaka , Masatoshi Sato

Recent experiments have provided evidence that one-dimensional (1D) topological superconductivity can be realized experimentally by placing transition metal atoms that form a ferromagnetic chain on a superconducting substrate. We address…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Jian Li , Hua Chen , Ilya K. Drozdov , A. Yazdani , B. Andrei Bernevig , A. H. MacDonald

We propose a theoretical model to investigate the interplay between altermagnetism and $p$-wave superconductivity, with a particular focus on topological phase transitions in a two-dimensional (2D) $p$-wave superconductor, considering both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-06 Pritam Chatterjee , Vladimir Juričić

Two-dimensional (2D) magnet-superconductor hybrid systems are intensively studied due to their potential for the realization of 2D topological superconductors with Majorana edge modes. It is theoretically predicted that this quantum state…

We study theoretically a chain of precessing classical magnetic impurities in an $s$-wave superconductor. Utilizing a rotating wave description, we derive an effective Hamiltonian that describes the emergent Shiba band. We find that this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Vardan Kaladzhyan , Pascal Simon , Mircea Trif