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Monolayer WTe$_2$, a centrosymmetric transition metal dichacogenide, has recently been established as a quantum spin Hall insulator and found superconducting upon gating. Here we study the pairing symmetry and topological nature of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-07 Yi-Ting Hsu , William S. Cole , Rui-Xing Zhang , Jay D. Sau

Recently it has been shown that multicomponent spin-orbit-coupled fermions in one-dimensional optical lattices can be viewed as spinless fermions moving in two-dimensional synthetic lattices with synthetic magnetic flux. The quantum Hall…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-11-03 Zhongbo Yan , Shaolong Wan , Zhong Wang

The discovery of topologically non-trivial electronic systems has opened a new age in condensed matter research. From topological insulators to topological superconductors and Weyl semimetals, it is now understood that some of the most…

Quantum spin liquids hosting Majorana excitations have recently experienced renewed interest for potential applications to topological quantum computation. Performing logical operations with reduced poisoning requires to localize such…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-05 Haoran Wang , Alessandro Principi

Topological superfluids are recently discovered quantum matters that host topologically protected gapless edge states known as Majorana fermions - exotic quantum particles that act as their own anti-particles and obey non-Abelian…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-01-23 Hui Hu , Lin Dong , Ye Cao , Han Pu , Xia-Ji Liu

We investigate helical edge states (HES) emerging at the composite domain wall of spin and pseudo-spin degrees of freedom in a 2-D bulk governed by the Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang Hamiltonian which underwent quantum spin Hall to anomalous Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-22 Subhadeep Chakraborty , Vivekananda Adak , Sourin Das

We here demonstrate that the superfluid 3He-B under a magnetic field in a particular direction stays topological due to a discrete symmetry, that is, in a symmetry protected topological order. Due to the symmetry protected topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-10-18 Takeshi Mizushima , Masatoshi Sato , Kazushige Machida

Interplay between superconductivity, spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field can lead to realisation of the topologically non--trivial states which in finite one dimensional nanowires are manifested by emergence of a pair of zero-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Aksel Kobiałka , Tadeusz Domański , Andrzej Ptok

Motivated by recent experiments demonstrating intricate quantum Hall physics on the surface of elemental bismuth, we consider proximity coupling an $s$-wave superconductor to a two-dimensional electron gas with strong Rashba spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-25 Ryan V. Mishmash , A. Yazdani , Michael P. Zaletel

We study the quasiparticle spectrum of a hybrid system, comprising a correlated (Anderson-type) quantum dot coupled to a topological superconducting nanowire hosting the Majorana boundarymodes. From the exact solution of the low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Jan Barański , Magdalena Barańska , Tomasz Zienkiewicz , Tadeusz Domański

Light's orbital angular momentum (OAM) is a conserved quantity in cylindrically symmetric media; however, it is easily destroyed by free-space turbulence or fiber bends, because anisotropic perturbations impart angular momentum. We observe…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-23 P. Gregg , P. Kristensen , S. Ramachandran

We propose the concept of a device based on a square-shaped sample of a two-dimensional second-order topological helical superconductor which hosts two zero-dimensional Majorana quasiparticles at the corners. The two zero-energy modes rely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Tudor E. Pahomi , Manfred Sigrist , Alexey A. Soluyanov

The Kitaev chain model exhibits topological order that manifests as topological degeneracy, Majorana edge modes and $Z_{2}$ topological invariance of the abulk spectrum. This model can be obtained from a transverse field Ising model(TFIM)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-10 Rukhsan Ul Haq , Louis H Kauffman

We investigate the topological aspect of the spin-triplet $f$-wave superconductor UPt$_3$ through microscopic calculations of edge- and vortex-bound states based on the quasiclassical Eilenberger and Bogoliubov-de Gennes theories. It is…

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

Engineering effective p-wave superconductors hosting Majorana quasiparticles (MQPs) is nowadays of particular interest, also in view of the possible utilization of MQPs in fault-tolerant topological quantum computation. In quasi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Magdalena Marganska , Lars Milz , Wataru Izumida , Christoph Strunk , Milena Grifoni

The total angular momentum of a close system is a conserved quantity, which should remain constant in time for any excitation experiment once the pumping signal has extinguished. Such conservation, however, is never satisfied in practice in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Jacopo Simoni , Stefano Sanvito

Spin-orbit coupling in solids describes an interaction between an electron's spin, an internal quantum-mechanical degree of freedom, with its linear momentum, an external property. Spin-orbit interaction, due to its relativistic nature, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-07 J. Shabani , Younghyun Kim , A. P. McFadden , R. M. Lutchyn , C. Nayak , C. J. palmstrøm

We study the stability of the topological quantum computation proposals involving Majorana fermions against thermal fluctuations. We use a minimal realistic model of a spinless px+ipy superconductor and consider effect of excited midgap…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-04-25 Meng Cheng , Roman M. Lutchyn , S. Das Sarma

A number of ferromagnetic superconductors have been recently discovered which are believed to be in the so-called "equal spin pairing" (ESP) state. In the ESP state the Cooper pairs condense forming order parameters…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-10-15 Jay D. Sau , Sumanta Tewari