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We propose a general framework for designing a two-dimensional (2D) topological superconductor (TSC) using a magnet-superconductor hybrid system. This setup involves a monolayer of CrInTe$_3$, which hosts noncoplanar magnetic textures, in…

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We present a self-consistent analysis of the topological superconductivity arising from the interaction between self-ordered localized magnetic moments and electrons in one-dimensional conductors in contact with a superconductor. We show…

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The transport behavior of a double quantum dot side-attached to a topological superconducting wire hosting Majorana zero-energy modes is studied theoretically in the strong correlation regime. It is shown that Majorana modes can leak to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-03 Ireneusz Weymann , Krzysztof P. Wójcik , Piotr Majek

Recent experimental investigations of arrays of magnetic atoms deposited on top of a superconductor have opened a new chapter in the search of topological superconductivity. We generalize the microscopic model derived by Pientka et al.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Joel Röntynen , Teemu Ojanen

We study reconstruction of the chiral edge states in a magnetic Chern insulator in the Kondo lattice model on a triangular lattice at 1/4 filling. In this state, the spin scalar chirality associated with a four-sublattice noncoplanar…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-19 Ryo Ozawa , Masafumi Udagawa , Yutaka Akagi , Yukitoshi Motome

The Kitaev superconducting chain is a model of spinless fermions with triplet-like superconductivity. It has raised interest since for some values of its parameters it presents a non-trivial topological phase that host Majorana fermions.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-22 Edine Silva , R. C. Bento Ribeiro , Heron Caldas , Mucio A. Continentino

We study the superconducting state of multi-orbital spin-orbit coupled systems in the presence of an orbitally driven inversion asymmetry assuming that the inter-orbital attraction is the dominant pairing channel. Although the inversion…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-06 Yuri Fukaya , Shun Tamura , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco

Graphene, a two dimensional (2D) carbon sheet, acquires many of its amazing properties from the Dirac point nature of its electronic structures with negligible spin-orbit coupling. Extending to 3D space, graphene networks with negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-09 Hongming Weng , Yunye Liang , Qiunan Xu , Rui Yu , Zhong Fang , Xi Dai , Yoshiyuki Kawazoe

We discuss transport properties of fully spin-polarized triplet superconductors, where only electrons of one spin component (along a certain axis) are paired. Due to the structure of the order parameter space, wherein phase and spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-20 Eyal Cornfeld , Mark S. Rudner , Erez Berg

We demonstrate that in metals, both normal and superconducting, orbital currents present in the ground state when time reversal symmetry (TRS) is broken, generate spin chirality. Nonzero chirality can emerge in the absence of any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Archisman Panigrahi , Vladislav Poliakov , Zhiyu Dong , Leonid Levitov

We demonstrate the formation of robust zero energy modes close to magnetic impurities in the iron-based superconductor FeSe$_{1-x}$Te$_x$. We find that the Zeeman field generated by the impurity favors a spin-triplet inter-orbital pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-02 Areg Ghazaryan , Ammar Kirmani , Rafael M. Fernandes , Pouyan Ghaemi

We show that a spontaneous strain and spontaneous magnetization can arise in the doped topological insulators with a two-component superconducting vector order parameter. The details of the effects crucially depend on the symmetry of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 R. S. Akzyanov , A. V. Kapranov , A. L. Rakhmanov

The possibility of selecting magnetic space groups by orienting the magnetization direction or tuning magnetic orders offers a vast playground for engineering symmetry protected topological phases in magnetic materials. In this work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Ilyoun Na , Marc Vila , Sinéad M. Griffin

Twisted nodal superconductors have been shown to exhibit chiral topological superconductivity under broken time-reversal symmetry. Here we show how a time-reversal preserving topological superconductivity can be induced in nodal triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-12 Kevin P. Lucht , Pavel A. Volkov , J. H. Pixley

Mobius graphene nanoribbons have only one edge topologically. How the magnetic structures, previously associated with the two edges of zigzag-edged flat nanoribbons or cyclic nanorings, would change for their Mobius counterparts is an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2008-05-18 De-en Jiang , Sheng Dai

Within a relativistic quantum formalism we examine the role of second-order corrections caused by the application of magnetic fields in two-dimensional topological and Chern insulators. This allows to reach analytical expressions for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-01 Daniel Faílde , Daniel Baldomir

Topological superconductors differ from topologically trivial ones for the presence of topologically protected zero-energy modes. To date, experimental evidence of topological superconductivity in nanostructures has been mainly obtained by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-22 Pasquale Marra , Roberta Citro , Alessandro Braggio

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

The perpendicular critical fields of a superconducting film have been strongly enhanced by using a nanoengineered lattice of magnetic dots (dipoles) on top of the film. Magnetic-field-induced superconductivity is observed in these hybrid…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Lange , M. J. Van Bael , Y. Bruynseraede , V. V. Moshchalkov

One-dimensional systems comprising s-wave superconductivity with meticulously tuned magnetism and spin-orbit coupling can realize topologically gapped superconductors hosting Majorana edge modes whose stability is determined by the gap's…