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Three-dimensional line-nodal superconductors exhibit nontrivial topology, which is protected by the time-reversal symmetry. Here we investigate four types of short-range interaction between the gapless line-nodal fermionic quasiparticles by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-15 Jing Wang

We show that time-reversal invariant superconductors in d=2 (d=3) dimensions can support topologically stable Fermi points (lines), characterized by an integer topological charge. Combining this with the momentum space symmetries present,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-04-22 B. Béri

Recent development in exact classification of a superconducting gap has elucidated various unconventional gap structures, which have not been predicted by the classification of order parameter based on the point group. One of the important…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-17 Shuntaro Sumita , Takuya Nomoto , Ken Shiozaki , Youichi Yanase

We demonstrate the existence of topologically stable unpaired exceptional points (EPs), and construct simple non-Hermitian (NH) tight-binding models exemplifying such remarkable nodal phases. While fermion doubling, i.e. the necessity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 J. Lukas K. König , Kang Yang , Jan Carl Budich , Emil J. Bergholtz

Topologically protected edge states have been extensively studied in systems characterized by the topological invariants in band gaps (also called line gaps). In this study, we unveil a whole new form of edge states that transcends the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Hongwei Jia , Jing Hu , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Yixin Xiao , Dongyang Wang , Mudi Wang , Shaojie Ma , Xiaoping Ouyang , Yifei Zhu , C. T. Chan

Topological superconductors have been theoretically predicted as a new class of time-reversal-invariant superconductors which are fully gapped in the bulk but have protected gapless surface Andreev bound states. In this work, we provide a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Liang Fu , Erez Berg

We classify line nodes in superconductors with strong spin-orbit interactions and time-reversal symmetry, where the latter may include non-primitive translations in the magnetic Brillouin zone to account for coexistence with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-24 T. Micklitz , M. R. Norman

Topological semimetals have energy bands near the Fermi energy sticking together at isolated points/lines/planes in the momentum space, which are often accompanied by stable surface states and intriguing bulk topological responses. Although…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-01 Bohm-Jung Yang , Troels Arnfred Bojesen , Takahiro Morimoto , Akira Furusaki

We introduce exactly solvable gapless quantum systems in $d$ dimensions that support symmetry protected topological (SPT) edge modes. Our construction leads to long-range entangled, critical points or phases that can be interpreted as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-08 Thomas Scaffidi , Daniel E. Parker , Romain Vasseur

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

Based on first-principles calculations and tight-binding model analysis, we propose that black phosphorus (BP) can host a three-dimensional topological node-line semimetal state under pressure when spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is ignored. A…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-04 Jianzhou Zhao , Rui Yu , Hongming Weng , Zhong Fang

We study bosonic symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases with $C_{2}$ rotational symmetry in four spatial dimensions which is not captured by the group cohomology classification. By using the topological crystal approach, we show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-19 Sheng-Jie Huang

Topological superconductors have become a subject of intense research due to their potential use for technical applications in device fabrication and quantum information. Besides fully gapped superconductors, unconventional superconductors…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-26 Andreas P. Schnyder , P. M. R. Brydon

We discuss the nodal structure of odd-parity superconductors in the presence of non-symmorphic crystal symmetries, both with and without spin-orbit coupling, and with and without time reversal symmetry. We comment on the relation of our…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-25 T. Micklitz , M. R. Norman

Topological superconductors possess a nodeless superconducting gap in the bulk and gapless zero energy modes, known as "Majorana zero modes", at the boundary of a finite system. In this work, we introduce a new class of topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-20 Qing-Ze Wang , Chao-Xing Liu

We propose a realizable experiment scheme to construct a one-dimensional synthetic magnetic flux lattice with spin-tensor-momentum coupled spin-1 atoms and explore its exotic topological states. Different from the Altland-Zirnbauer…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-14 Zhoutao Lei , Yuangang Deng , Chaohong Lee

We study the stability of topologically protected zero-energy flat bands at the surface of nodal noncentrosymmetric superconductors, accounting for the alteration of the gap near the surface. Within a selfconsistent mean-field theory, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-14 Carsten Timm , Stefan Rex , P. M. R. Brydon

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

We introduce a one dimensional non-Hermitian four band tight binding lattice system. We find stable topological edge states protected by particle-hole and parity-time symmetries. We show that topological phase appears in the system. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 C. Yuce

We investigate one-dimensional charge conserving, spin-singlet (SSS) and spin-triplet (STS) superconductors in the presence of boundary fields. In systems with Open Boundary Conditions (OBC) it has been demonstrated that STS display a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-10 Parameshwar R. Pasnoori , Natan Andrei , Patrick Azaria