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We study the interplay between topological and conventional long range order of attractive fermions in a time reversal symmetric Hofstadter lattice using quantum Monte Carlo simulations, focussing on the case of one-third flux quantum per…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-11 Lei Wang , Hsiang-Hsuan Hung , Matthias Troyer

We introduce two-dimensional topological insulators in proximity to high-temperature cuprate or iron-based superconductors as high-temperature platforms of Majorana Kramers pairs of zero modes. The proximity-induced pairing at the helical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-03 Zhongbo Yan , Fei Song , Zhong Wang

We propose and analyze theoretically an experimental setup for detecting the elusive Majorana particle in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures. The experimental system consists of one-dimensional semiconductor wire with strong…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-08-16 Roman M. Lutchyn , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

We propose and analyze an interface between a topological qubit and a superconducting flux qubit. In our scheme, the interaction between Majorana fermions in a topological insulator is coherently controlled by a superconducting phase that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-01 Liang Jiang , Charles L. Kane , John Preskill

We study a topological phase of interacting bosons in (3+1) dimensions which is protected by charge conservation and time-reversal symmetry. We present an explicit lattice model which realizes this phase and which can be studied in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-31 Scott Geraedts , Olexei Motrunich

Higher-order topological superfluids have gapped bulk and symmetry-protected Majorana zero modes with various localizations. Motivated by recent advances, we present a proposal for synthesizing multi-order topological superfluids that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-07-09 Yu-Biao Wu , Guang-Can Guo , Zhen Zheng , Xu-Bo Zou

We investigate the robustness of Majorana edge modes under disorder and interactions. We exploit a recently found mapping of the interacting Kitaev chain in the symmetric region ($\mu = 0$, $t = \Delta$) to free fermions. Extending the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Max McGinley , Johannes Knolle , Andreas Nunnenkamp

We show that a topological phase supporting Majorana fermions can form in a 2D electron gas (2DEG) adjacent to an interdigitated superconductor-ferromagnet structure. An advantage of this setup is that the 2DEG can induce the required…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-09-19 Shu-Ping Lee , Jason Alicea , Gil Refael

Topological insulators are new class of materials which are characterized by a bulk band gap like ordinary band insulator but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. These states emerge out due to the combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar

Recently, the field of strongly correlated electrons has begun an intense search for a correlation induced topological insulating phase. An example is the quadratic band touching point which arises in a checkerboard lattice at half-filling,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-28 I. Mandal , S. Gemsheim

Majorana fermions were proposed to occur at edges and interfaces of gapped one-dimensional systems where phases with different topological character meet due to an interplay of spin-orbit coupling, proximity-induced superconductivity and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Eran Sela , Alexander Altland , Achim Rosch

At the interface of an s-wave superconductor and a three-dimensional topological insulator, Ma- jorana zero modes and Majorana helical states have been proposed to exist respectively around magnetic vortices and geometrical edges. Here we…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-07 Wei Qin , Zhenyu Zhang

Topologically ordered phase has emerged as one of most exciting concepts that not only broadens our understanding of phases of matter, but also has been found to have potential application in fault-tolerant quantum computation. The direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Zhihuang Luo , Chao Lei , Jun Li , Xinfang Nie , Zhaokai Li , Xinhua Peng , Jiangfeng Du

The vortex of iron-based superconductors is emerging as a promising platform for Majorana zero mode, owing to a magic integration among intrinsic vortex winding, non-trivial band topology, strong electron-electron correlations, high-Tc…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-31 Lingyuan Kong , Hong Ding

We propose experimentally observable signatures of of topological Majorana quasiparticles in the few-body limit of the interacting cold-atom model of [Iemini et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 118 200404 (2017)]. In this limit, the total on-site…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Jared Bland , Chris H. Greene , Birgit Wehefritz-Kaufmann

One-dimensional systems proximity-coupled to a superconductor can be driven into a topological superconducting phase by an external magnetic field. Here, we investigate the effect of vortices created by the magnetic field in a type-II…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Alexander Nikolaenko , Falko Pientka

We show that interactions can drive a class of higher order topological superconductors (HOTSC) into symmetry enriched topologically ordered phases exemplified by topological quantum error correcting codes. In two dimensions, interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-21 Yizhi You , Daniel Litinski , Felix von Oppen

A chiral $p_x+ip_y$ superconductor on a square lattice with nearest and next-nearest hopping and pairing terms is considered. Gap closures, as various parameters of the system are varied, are found analytically and used to identify the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-11-27 Antonio Russo , Sudip Chakravarty

Motivated by recently reported magnetic-field induced topological phases in ultracold atoms and correlated Moir\'e materials, we investigate topological phase transitions in a minimal model consisting of interacting spinless fermions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Axel Fünfhaus , Marius Möller , Thilo Kopp , Roser Valentí

Topological superconductors can support localized Majorana states at their boundaries. These quasi-particle excitations have non-Abelian statistics that can be used to encode and manipulate quantum information in a topologically protected…