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We present a detailed investigation of the topological phases and Majorana fermion (MF) excitations that arise from the bulk interplay between (un)conventional one/two-band spin-singlet superconductivity and a number of magnetic texture…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-28 Daniel Steffensen , Morten H. Christensen , Brian M. Andersen , Panagiotis Kotetes

The Nambu-Gorkov Green's function approach is applied to strongly type-II superconductivity in a 2D spin-momentum locked (Weyl) Fermi gas model at high perpendicular magnetic fields. When the chemical potential is sufficiently close to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-14 Vladimir Zhuravlev , Wenye Duan , Tsofar Maniv

For topological materials with coexistence of Weyl nodes and nodal rings, the surface-state configuration and connection are unique yet have never been studied and discussed before. In this paper, we predict a ferromagnetic (FM) material,…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-13 Tiantian Zhang , Daisuke Hara , Shuichi Murakami

Coupling the surface state of a topological insulator (TI) to an s-wave superconductor is predicted to produce the long-sought Majorana quasiparticle excitations. However, superconductivity has not been measured in surface states when the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Sungjae Cho , Brian Dellabetta , Alina Yang , John Schneeloch , Zhijun Xu , Tonica Valla , Genda Gu , Matthew J. Gilbert , Nadya Mason

A Weyl semimetal hosts low-energy chiral surface states, which appear to connect a pair of Weyl nodes in reciprocal space. As these chiral surface states propagate in a given direction, a spontaneous circulating current is expected to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-20 Yositake Takane

We study superconducting states of doped inversion-symmetric Weyl semimetals. Specifically, we consider a lattice model realizing a Weyl semimetal with an inversion symmetry and study the superconducting instability in the presence of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-01 Gil Young Cho , Jens H. Bardarson , Yuan-Ming Lu , Joel E. Moore

Majorana bound states exist inside a core of half-quantum vortex in spin-triplet superconductors. Despite intense efforts, they have not been discovered in any spin-triplet superconductor candidate materials. After the success of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 Yige Chen , Hae-Young Kee

In topological materials, Dirac fermions can split into two Weyl fermions with opposite chiralities due to the breaking of space inversion symmetry, while in non-centrosymmetric superconductors, novel superconducting electron pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-05 Weizheng Cao , Ningning Zhao , Cuiying Pei , Qi Wang , Yi Zhao , Lingling Gao , Changhua Li , Na Yu , Yulin Chen , Kai Liu , Yanpeng Qi

Multi-component electronic systems can appear in solid state systems with active orbital band structures. They exhibit richer structures of topological superconductivity beyond the conventional scenarios of spin singlet and triplet pairings…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-11-08 Wang Yang , Tao Xiang , Congjun Wu

Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter which can not be adiabatically connected to conventional insulators and semiconductors. They are characterized by a full insulating gap in the bulk and gapless edge or surface states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The discovery of Weyl semimetals represents a significant advance in topological band theory. They paradigmatically enlarged the classification of topological materials to gapless systems while simultaneously providing experimental evidence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 P. Rüßmann , A. P. Weber , F. Glott , N. Xu , M. Fanciulli , S. Muff , A. Magrez , P. Bugnon , H. Berger , M. Bode , J. H. Dil , S. Blügel , P. Mavropoulos , P. Sessi

Weyl semimetals are conductors whose low-energy bulk excitations are Weyl fermions, whereas their surfaces possess metallic Fermi arc surface states. These Fermi arc surface states are protected by a topological invariant associated with…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-24 M. Zahid Hasan , Su-Yang Xu , Ilya Belopolski , Shin-Ming Huang

For the application of topological materials, the specific location of their topological surface states with respect to the Fermi level are important. {\gamma}-PtBi2 has been demonstrated to be a Weyl semimetal possessing superconducting…

Weyl nodes are topological objects in three-dimensional metals. Their topological property can be revealed by studying the high-field transport properties of a Weyl semimetal. While the energy of the lowest Landau band (LLB) of a…

The potential application of topological superconductivity in quantum transport and quantum information has fueled an intense investigation of hybrid materials with emergent electronic properties, including magnet-superconductor…

Weyl metal is the first example of a conducting material with a nontrivial electronic structure topology, making it distinct from an ordinary metal. Unlike in insulators, the nontrivial topology is not related to invariants, associated with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 A. A. Burkov

In the presence of certain symmetries, three-dimensional Dirac semimetals can harbor not only surface Fermi arcs, but also surface Dirac cones. Motivated by the experimental observation of rotation-symmetry-protected Dirac semimetal states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-17 Majid Kheirkhah , Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Joseph Maciejko , Zhongbo Yan

We present two band models for free fermion with charge conjugation symmetry in three dimensions. Without time reversal symmetry (TRS), the weak pairing gapless $A$-phase is a Majorana fermion $p_x+ip_y$ wave FFLO state while the strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-21 Xi Luo , Feng Tang , Xiangang Wan , Yue Yu

Topological semimetals such as Weyl or Dirac semimetals with superconductivity have emerged as a new class of topological materials to realize and study Majorana Fermion. This article reports the Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-13 N. K. Karn , M. M. Sharma , V. P. S. Awana

The realization of topological surface states and superconductivity within a single material platform is a crucial step toward achieving topologically nontrivial superconductivity. This can be achieved at an interface between a…