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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

We study two-dimensional noncentrosymmetric nodal superconductors under Zeeman field and clarify the field angle dependence of topological properties. It has been shown that the nodal excitation acquires an excitation gap due to the Zeeman…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-02 Akito Daido , Youichi Yanase

We present tight-binding models of 3D topological superconductors in class DIII that support a variety of winding numbers. We show that gapless Majorana surface states emerge at their boundary in agreement with the bulk-boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Peter Finch , James de Lisle , Giandomenico Palumbo , Jiannis K. Pachos

We study the properties of one-dimensional topological superconductors under the influence of generic boundary conditions mimicking the coupling with external environments. We identify a general four-parameters classification of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 A. Maiellaro , F. Romeo , F. Illuminati

Topological superconductors are believed to host exotic quasiparticle excitations known as Majorana zero-modes, with much of the evidence based on BCS mean-field theory. The direct application of mean-field arguments is tenuous in finite,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-03 Jaden Thomas-Markarian , Kartiek Agarwal , Ivar Martin

Majorana corner modes appearing in two-dimensional second-order topological superconductors have great potential applications for fault-tolerant topological quantum computations. We demonstrate that in the presence of an in-plane magentic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-07 S. Ikegaya , W. B. Rui , D. Manske , Andreas P. Schnyder

Recently, superconductors with higher-order topology have stimulated extensive attention and research interest. Higher-order topological superconductors exhibit unconventional bulk-boundary correspondence, thus allow exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Xiao-Ting Chen , Chun-Hui Liu , Dong-Hui Xu , Chui-Zhen Chen

Just like insulators can host topological Dirac states at their edges, superconductors can also exhibit topological phases characterized by Majorana edge states. Remarkable zero-energy states have been recently observed at the two ends of…

In this paper we study the symmetry protected Majorana edge states for the Z2 topological order of the Wen-plaquette model and the toric-code model and calculate the dispersion of the Majorana edge states. For the system with translational…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-08 Jing Yu , Xing-Hai Zhang , Su-Peng Kou

Second-order topological superconductors host Majorana corner and hingemodes in contrast to conventional edge and surface modes in two and three dimensions. However, the realization of such second-order corner modes usually demands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-04 Ya-Jie Wu , Junpeng Hou , Yun-Mei Li , Xi-Wang Luo , Xiaoyan Shi , Chuanwei Zhang

In proximity to an s-wave superconductor, a one- or two-dimensional, electron- or hole-doped semiconductor with a sizable spin-orbit coupling and a Zeeman splitting can support a topological superconducting (TS) state. The semiconductor TS…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-02-28 Jay D. Sau , Sumanta Tewari , S. Das Sarma

The bulk-boundary correspondence establishes a connection between the bulk topological index of an insulator or superconductor, and the number of topologically protected edge bands or states. For topological superconductors in two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Nicholas Sedlmayr , Vardan Kaladzhyan , Clément Dutreix , Cristina Bena

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

We propose a novel realization for a topologically superconducting phase hosting Majorana zero-modes on the basis of quantum spin Hall systems. Remarkably, our proposal is completely free of ferromagnets. Instead, we confine helical edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 C. Fleckenstein , N. Traverso Ziani , A. Calzona , M. Sassetti , B. Trauzettel

We demonstrate that Majorana fermions exist in edges of systems and in a vortex core even for superconductors with nodal excitations such as the d-wave pairing state under a particular but realistic condition in the case with an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-02-11 Masatoshi Sato , Satoshi Fujimoto

We analyze the formation of Majorana zero-modes at the edge of a two-dimensional topological superconductor. In particular, we study a time-reversal-invariant triplet phase that is likely to exist in doped Bi$_2$Se$_3$. Upon the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-23 Vo Tien Phong , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

Superconducting proximity pairing in helical edge modes, such as those of topological insulators (TI), is predicted to provide a unique platform for realizing Majorana zero modes (MZMs). We use scanning tunneling microscopy measurements to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Berthold Jäck , Yonglong Xie , Jian Li , Sangjun Jeon , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ali Yazdani

We demonstrate that the one-dimensional helical Majorana edges of two-dimensional time-reversal symmetric topological superconductors (class DIII) can become gapless and insulating by a combination of random edge velocity and interaction.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-10 Yang-Zhi Chou , Rahul M. Nandkishore

The study of topological classes and their associated edge states has been of ongoing interest. In one dimension, the standard platform of these studies has been the conventional Kitaev wire and its realizations. In this work, we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-26 Sayonee Ray , Subroto Mukerjee , Nayana Shah

We study Majorana edge states and their topological properties of one-dimensional(1D) and two-dimensional(2D) Rashba semiconductor deposited on iron-based superconductor under the applied Zeeman field for various directions. Using the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-14 Hiromi Ebisu , Keiji Yada , Hideaki Kasai , Yukio Tanaka
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