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Noncentrosymmetric superconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling and the B phase of ${}^3$He are possible realizations of topological superconductors with time-reversal symmetry. The nontrivial topology of these time- reversal invariant…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-27 Raquel Queiroz , Andreas P. Schnyder

We study one-dimensional topological superconductivity in the presence of time-reversal symmetry. This phase is characterized by having a bulk gap, while supporting a Kramers' pair of zero-energy Majorana bound states at each of its ends.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-15 Arbel Haim , Konrad Wölms , Erez Berg , Yuval Oreg , Karsten Flensberg

We address the issue whether it is possible to generate Majorana bound states at the magnetic-superconducting interface in two-dimensional topological insulators with hidden Dirac points in the spectrum. In this case, the Dirac point of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Ferdinand Schulz , Kirill Plekhanov , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

In this study, we examine the thermoelectric characteristics of a system consisting of two topological superconducting nanowires, each exhibiting Majorana zero modes at their ends, connected to leads within an interferometer configuration.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Alejandro P. Garrido , David Zambrano , Juan Pablo ramos , Pedro Orellana

Motivated by the recent twisted MoTe$_2$ experiment [arXiv:2601.18508], we develop a disordered interacting edge theory of a fractional topological insulator at $\nu_{\text{tot}}=4/3$, consisting of two time-reversal-conjugated $\nu=2/3$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-12 Yang-Zhi Chou , Sankar Das Sarma

Two-dimensional time-reversal-invariant topological superconductors host helical Majorana fermions at their boundary. We study the fate of these edge states under the combined influence of strong interactions and disorder, using the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-09 Jun Ho Son , Jason Alicea , Olexei I. Motrunich

Two-dimensional second-order topological superconductors (SOTSCs) have gapped bulk and edge states, with zero-energy Majorana bound states localized at corners. Motivated by recent advances in Majorana nanowire experiments, we propose to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 S. Franca , D. V. Efremov , I. C. Fulga

We propose an experimental setup of an interferometer for the observation of neutral Majorana fermions on topological insulator - superconductor - ferromagnet junctions. We show that the extended lattice defects naturally present in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-02 Andrej Mesaros , Stefanos Papanikolaou , Jan Zaanen

To guide experimental work on the search for Majorana zero-energy modes, we calculate the superconducting pairing symmetry of a three-dimensional topological insulator in combination with an s-wave superconductor. In analogy to the case of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-07-28 M. Snelder , A. A. Golubov , Y. Asano , A. Brinkman

Topological insulators are crystalline materials that have revolutionized our ability to control wave transport. They provide us with unidirectional channels that are immune to obstacles, defects or local disorder, and can even survive some…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Zhe Zhang , Pierre Delplace , Romain Fleury

Recent experiments have produced mounting evidence of Majorana zero modes in nanowire-superconductor hybrids. Signatures of an expected topological phase transition accompanying the onset of these modes nevertheless remain elusive. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-13 Ryan V. Mishmash , David Aasen , Andrew P. Higginbotham , Jason Alicea

The effect of multiple topological transitions for electron-hole excitations is discovered in full shell proximitized semiconducting nanowires with trapped superconducting vortices, recently shown to be a promising platform for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-23 A. A. Kopasov , A. S. Mel'nikov

In this paper, we investigate the non-Markovian quantum transport dynamics of a two-terminal Majorana device that is made of an asymmetric topological superconducting chain coupled to two leads. This asymmetric superconducting chain is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-20 Chuan-Zhe Yao , Wei-Min Zhang

Using exact diagonalization and quantum Monte Carlo calculations we investigate the effects of disorder on the phase diagram of both non-interacting and interacting models of two-dimensional topological insulators. In the fermion sign…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-21 Hsiang-Hsuan Hung , Aaron Barr , Emil Prodan , Gregory A. Fiete

We elucidate the reduction of the winding number (WN) caused by the onsite disorder in a higher WN next nearest neighbor XY model. When disorder becomes strong enough, Majorana edge modes become critically extended, beyond which they…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-14 Alireza Habibi , S. A. Jafari , S. Rouhani

We consider theoretically the physics of bulk topological superconductivity accompanied by boundary non-Abelian Majorana zero modes in semiconductor-superconductor (SM-SC) hybrid systems consisting of finite wires in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Sankar Das Sarma , Jay D. Sau , Tudor D. Stanescu

Two-dimensional (2D) topological electronic insulators are known to give rise to gapless edge modes, which underlie low energy dynamics, including electrical and thermal transport. This has been thoroughly investigated in the context of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Udit Khanna , Yuval Gefen , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony

We investigate characteristic features in the spin response of doped three-dimensional topological insulators with odd-parity unequal-spin superconducting pairing, which are predicted to have gapless Majorana surface modes. These Majorana…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-29 Björn Zocher , Bernd Rosenow

The oscillation of Majorana modes with near zero energy plays a very important role for ascertaining Majorana fermions. The edge states, which also have almost-zero-energy in one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain (SSHc), have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-13 Yang Zhang , Wei Nie , Yu-xi Liu

The interplay of disorder and short finite wire length is the crucial physics hindering progress in the semiconductor-superconductor nanowire platform for realizing non-Abelian Majorana zero modes (MZM). Disorder effectively segments the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Haining Pan , Sankar Das Sarma