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Topological one-dimensional superconductors can sustain in their extremities zero energy modes that are protected by different kinds of symmetries. The observation of these excitations in the form of Majorana fermions is one of the most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 A. C. P. Lima , R. C. Bento Ribeiro , J. H. Correa , Fernanda Deus , M. S. Figueira , Mucio A. Continentino

Transition out of a topological phase is typically characterized by discontinuous changes in topological invariants along with bulk gap closings. However, as a clean system is geometrically punctured, it is natural to ask the fate of an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-12-15 Saikat Mondal , Subrata Pachhal , Adhip Agarwala

Two-dimensional topological superconductivity has attracted great interest due to the emergence of Majorana modes bound to vortices and propagating along edges. However, due to its rare appearance in natural compounds, experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-19 J. L. Lado , M. Sigrist

We propose helical topological superconductivity away from the Fermi surface in three-dimensional time-reversal-symmetric odd-parity multiband superconductors. In these systems, pairing between electrons originating from different bands is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 Masoud Bahari , Song-Bo Zhang , Chang-An Li , Sang-Jun Choi , Philipp Rüßmann , Carsten Timm , Björn Trauzettel

We study a junction between two time-reversal-invariant topological superconductors and show this system goes through a series of multiple transitions between a $0$-junction phase, where the free energy has its minimum for a superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 Arbel Haim

We prove that a system of non-interacting electrons proximity coupled to a conventional s-wave superconductor cannot realize a time reversal invariant topological phase. This is done by showing that for such a system, in either one or two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Arbel Haim , Erez Berg , Karsten Flensberg , Yuval Oreg

We consider a two-dimensional electron gas with strong spin-orbit coupling contacted by two superconducting leads, forming a Josephson junction. We show that in the presence of an in-plane Zeeman field the quasi-one-dimensional region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Falko Pientka , Anna Keselman , Erez Berg , Amir Yacoby , Ady Stern , Bertrand I. Halperin

As one of the simplest systems for realizing Majorana fermions, topological superconductor plays an important role in both condensed matter physics and quantum computations. Based on \emph{ab~initio} calculations and the analysis of an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-06 Gang Xu , Biao Lian , Peizhe Tang , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Topological superconductors are one of the intriguing material groups from the viewpoint of not only condensed matter physics but also industrial application such as quantum computers based on Majorana fermion. For the real application,…

Time crystals form when arbitrary physical states of a periodically driven system spontaneously break discrete time-translation symmetry. We introduce one-dimensional time-crystalline topological superconductors, for which time-translation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Aaron Chew , David F. Mross , Jason Alicea

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

Chiral and helical Majorana edge modes are two archetypal gapless excitations of two-dimensional topological superconductors. They belong to superconductors from two different Altland-Zirnbauer symmetry classes characterized by $\mathbb{Z}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Haiping Hu , Indubala I. Satija , Erhai Zhao

For Josephson junctions based on s-wave superconductors, time-reversal symmetry is known to allow for powerful relations between the normal-state junction properties, the excitation spectrum, and the Josephson current. Here we provide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-10 E. A. Mellars , B. Béri

We study the time reversal (T) symmetry breaking of 2d helical fermi liquid, with application to the edge states of 3d topological band insulators with only one two-component Dirac fermion at finite chemical potential, as well as other…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Cenke Xu

The interplay between time-reversal symmetry (TRS) and band topology plays a crucial role in topological states of quantum matter. In time-reversal-invariant (TRI) systems, the inversion of spin-degenerate bands with opposite parity leads…

Chiral topological semimetals host multifold degenerate band crossing points under the protection of crystalline symmetries. In this paper, we suggest that the recently discovered chiral topological semimetals in space group 198, parts of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yingyi Huang , Shao-Kai Jian

In iron-based superconductors, band inversion of $d$- and $p$-orbitals yields Dirac semimetallic states. We theoretically investigate their topological properties in normal and superconducting phases, based on the tight-binding model…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-18 Takuto Kawakami , Masatoshi Sato

The continuous quantum phase transition between noninteracting, time-reversal symmetric topological and trivial insulators in three dimensions is described by the massless Dirac fermion. We address the stability of this quantum critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Bitan Roy , Pallab Goswami , Jay D. Sau

The recent discovery of heavy-fermion superconductor UTe$_2$ has broadened the possibility of realizing exotic time-reversal-symmetry-breaking superconductivity. However, a comprehensive understanding of the topological phases in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-11 Yuki Yamazaki , Shingo Kobayashi

We investigate a mechanism to produce superconductivity by strong purely repulsive interactions for flat dispersion $\varepsilon \sim k^4$, without using pairing instability in Fermi-liquid. The resulting superconductors break both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-24 Minho Kim , Abigail Timmel , Long Ju , Xiao-Gang Wen