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We show that certain singularities of the Hamiltonian in the complex wave vector space can be used to identify topological quantum phase transitions for $1D$ chiral topological superconductors/superfluids in the BDI class. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Ipsita Mandal , Sumanta Tewari

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

Zero-energy flat bands within the superconducting gap can give rise to competing ordered phases. We investigate such phases in topological superconductors based on the magnetic adatom platform hosting a flat band of Majorana edge states.…

We analyze collective excitations in models of two-dimensional topological insulators using the random phase approximation. In a two-dimensional extension of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model, edge plasmonic excitations with induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Henning Schlömer , Zhihao Jiang , Stephan Haas

Topological band structures in electronic systems like topological insulators and semimetals give rise to highly unusual physical properties. Analogous topological effects have also been discussed in bosonic systems, but the novel phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-06 Hoi Chun Po , Yasaman Bahri , Ashvin Vishwanath

Conventional $n$-dimensional topological superconductors (TSCs) have protected gapless $(n - 1)$-dimensional boundary states. In contrast to this, second-order TSCs are characterized by topologically protected gapless $(n - 2)$-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-17 Tao Liu , James Jun He , Franco Nori

We investigate the topological classification of the subgap bands induced in a two-dimensional superconductor by a densely packed chain of magnetic moments with ferromagnetic or spiral alignments. The wave functions for these bands are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-23 C. J. F. Carroll , B. Braunecker

In this letter, we investigate topological phases of full-gapped odd-parity superconductors, which are distinguished by the bulk topological invariants and the topologically protected gapless boundary states. Using the particle-hole…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-10-20 Masatoshi Sato

Second-order topological insulators and superconductors have a gapped excitation spectrum in bulk and along boundaries, but protected zero modes at corners of a two-dimensional crystal or protected gapless modes at hinges of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-05 Max Geier , Luka Trifunovic , Max Hoskam , Piet W. Brouwer

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

The bulk-edge correspondence characterizes topological insulators and superconductors. We generalize this concept to the bulk-corner correspondence and the edge-corner correspondence in two dimensions. In the bulk-corner (edge-corner)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Motohiko Ezawa

We present a new platform for creating Majorana bound states from 2D gapless superconducting state in spin-helical systems under the in-plane Zeeman field. Topological 1D channels are formed by quantum confinement of quasiparticles via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Michał Papaj , Liang Fu

Recently, it has been suggested that topological superconductivity and Majorana end states can be realized in a chain of magnetic impurities on the surface of an s-wave superconductor when the magnetic moments form a spin helix as a result…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-17 Falko Pientka , Leonid I. Glazman , Felix von Oppen

Electronic materials harbor a plethora of exotic quantum phases, ranging from unconventional superconductors to non-Fermi liquids, and, more recently, topological phases of matter. While these quantum phases in integer dimensions are well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Sourav Manna , Snehasish Nandy , Bitan Roy

Topological phases in quantum and classical systems have been of significant recent interest due to their fascinating physical properties. While a range of different mechanisms to induce topological order have been introduced, a quest for…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-07 Mengyao Li , Xiang Ni , Matthew Weiner , Andrea Alù , Alexander B. Khanikaev

Topological insulators are characterized by an insulating bulk with a finite band gap and conducting edge or surface states, where charge carriers are protected against backscattering. These states give rise to the quantum spin Hall effect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-23 M. Veldhorst , M. Snelder , M. Hoek , T. Gang , X. L. Wang , V. K. Guduru , U. Zeitler , W. G. v. d. Wiel , A. A. Golubov , H. Hilgenkamp , A. Brinkman

Recent studies have shown that there are two types of topological quadrupolar semimetals. One is the quadrupolar bulk semimetal, which is a conventional semimetal with gapless nodes in the bulk spectrum. The other type is named the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-22 Xingen Zheng , Tian Chen , Xiangdong Zhang

Hopf insulators represent a unique class of topological insulators that exist exclusively in two-band systems and are inherently unstable upon the inclusion of additional bands. Meanwhile, recent studies have shown that non-Hermiticity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Daichi Nakamura , Kohei Kawabata

The bulk-boundary correspondence guarantees topologically protected edge states in a two-dimensional topological superconductor. Unlike in topological insulators, these edge states are, however, not connected to a quantized (spin) current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-07 Maximilian F. Holst , Manfred Sigrist , Mark H. Fischer

We introduce and solve a two-band model of spinless fermions with $p_x$-wave pairing on a square lattice. The model reduces to the well-known extended Harper-Hofstadter model with half-flux quanta per plaquette and weakly coupled Kitaev…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-04 Haiping Hu , Erhai Zhao , Indubala I. Satija