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Conventional superconductors are strong diamagnets that through the Meissner effect expel magnetic fields. It would therefore be surprising if a superconducting ground state would support spontaneous magnetics fields. Such time-reversal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-02 Mikael Håkansson , Tomas Löfwander , Mikael Fogelström

Topological superfluids protected by mirror and time-reversal symmetries are exotic states of matter possessing Majorana Kramers pairs (MKPs), yet their realizations have long been hindered by the requirement of unconventional pairing. We…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-11-06 Haiping Hu , Fan Zhang , Chuanwei Zhang

Time-reversal breaking topological superconductors are new states of matter which can support Majorana zero modes at the edge. In this paper, we propose a new realization of one-dimensional topological superconductivity and Majorana zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 Gang Xu , Jing Wang , Binghai Yan , Xiao-Liang Qi

Majorana fermions are predicted to play a crucial role in condensed matter realizations of topological quantum computation. These heretofore undiscovered quasiparticles have been predicted to exist at the cores of vortex excitations in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hsiang-Hsuan Hung , Pouyan Ghaemi , Taylor L. Hughes , Matthew J. Gilbert

Certain types of topological superconductors and superfluids are known to host protected Majorana zero modes in cores of Abrikosov vortices. When such vortices are arranged in a dense periodic lattice one expects zero modes from neighboring…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-28 Tianyu Liu , M. Franz

Recent experiments engineered special spin-degenerate Andreev bound states in atomic cages of adatoms on superconductors, the Machida-Shibata states, a promising building block for quantum matter. Here, we investigate the formation of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-13 Ioannis Ioannidis , Ching-Kai Chiu , Thore Posske

One of the cornerstones for topological quantum computations is the Majorana zero mode, which has been intensively searched in fractional quantum Hall systems and topological superconductors. Several recent works suggest that such an exotic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-18 Rui-Xing Zhang , Chao-Xing Liu

Recent experiments have observed bulk superconductivity in doped topological insulators. Here we ask whether vortex Majorana zero modes, previously predicted to occur when superconductivity is induced on the surface of topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-17 Pavan Hosur , Pouyan Ghaemi , Roger S. K. Mong , Ashvin Vishwanath

Intensive studies for more than three decades have elucidated multiple superconducting phases and odd-parity Cooper pairs in a heavy fermion superconductor UPt$_3$. We identify a time-reversal invariant superconducting phase of UPt$_3$ as a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-06-30 Youichi Yanase , Ken Shiozaki

Vortices of several condensed matter systems are predicted to have zero-energy core excitations which are Majorana fermions. These exotic quasi-particles are neutral, massless, and expected to have non-Abelian statistics. Furthermore, they…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-02 Yaacov E. Kraus , Ady Stern

We show that introducing spin-singlet or spin-triplet superconductivity into twisted bilayer graphene induces higher-order topological superconductivity. $C_{2z}T$-protected corner states of Majorana Kramers pairs appear at the boundary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-13 Aaron Chew , Yijie Wang , B. Andrei Bernevig , Zhi-Da Song

When the impurity mean free path is short, only spin-polarized Cooper pairs which are non-locally and antisymmetrically correlated in time may exist in a half-metallic ferromagnet. As a consequence, the half-metal acts as an odd-frequency…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-30 Eirik Holm Fyhn , Jacob Linder

Higher-order topological superconductors host Majorana zero modes localized at corners or hinges, providing a promising route toward scalable and controllable Majorana networks without vortices or magnetic flux. Here we propose a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-06 Yongting Shi , Qing Wang , Zhen-Guo Fu , Ping Zhang , Ning Hao

We study the boundary Majorana modes for the single component p-wave weak topological superconductors or superfluids, which form zero energy flat bands protected by time-reversal symmetry in the orbital channel. However, due to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-20 Yi Li , Da Wang , Congjun Wu

In this paper, we investigate the non-Markovian quantum transport dynamics of a two-terminal Majorana device that is made of an asymmetric topological superconducting chain coupled to two leads. This asymmetric superconducting chain is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-20 Chuan-Zhe Yao , Wei-Min Zhang

The presence or absence of certain symmetries in the normal state (NS) also determines the symmetry of the Cooper pairs. Here we show that parity (${\mathcal P}$) and time-reversal (${\mathcal T}$) odd Dirac insulators (trivial or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Bitan Roy

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 investigate the vortex flow anisotropy in the mixed state of nematic superconductors, focusing on the effects of nematic-superconducting coupling on vortex dynamics. Using numerical simulations within a time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau…

The chiral topological superconductor in two dimensions has a full pairing gap in the bulk and a single chiral Majorana state at the edge. The vortex of the chiral superconducting state carries a Majorana zero mode which is responsible for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Xiao-Liang Qi , Taylor L. Hughes , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The external controllability of topological superconductors and Majorana fermions would be important both for fundamental and practical interests. Here we predict the electric-field control of Majorana fermions in two-dimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-07 Jing Wang