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Realistic selfconsistent calculations of unconventional superconductivity in a heavy-fermion material are reported. Our calculations for UPd$_2$Al$_3$ start from accurate energy band dispersions that are computed within the local…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Oppeneer , G. Varelogiannis

We present an exactly solvable spin-3/2 model defined on a pentacoordinated three-dimensional graphite lattice, which realizes a novel quantum spin liquid with second-order topology. The exact solutions are described by Majorana fermions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-01 Y. X. Zhao , Y. Lu , Shengyuan A. Yang

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

We study topological phases of time-reversal invariant singlet superconductors in three spatial dimensions. In these particle-hole symmetric systems the topological phases are characterized by an even-numbered winding number $\nu$. At a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-15 Andreas P. Schnyder , Shinsei Ryu , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

Topological superconductivity has been sought for in a variety of heterostructure systems, the interest being that a material displaying such a phenomenon could prove to be the ideal platform to support Majorana fermions, which in turn…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-22 N. Zaki , G. Gu , A. M. Tsvelik , C. Wu , P. D. Johnson

The extension of the topological classification of band insulators to topological semimetals gave way to the topology classes of Dirac, Weyl, and nodal line semimetals with their unique Fermi arc and drum head boundary modes. Similarly,…

We show that the pair of Majorana modes at each end of a 1D spin triplet superconductor with total Cooper pair spin S_x=0 (i.e., Delta_{up,up} = -Delta_{down,down} = p*Delta_0; two uncoupled time reversed copies of the Kitaev p-wave chain)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-07 E. Dumitrescu , Sumanta Tewari

Topological nodal superconductors (SCs) have attracted considerable interest due to their gapless bulk excitations and exotic surface states. In this paper, by establishing a general framework of the effective theory for multi-orbital SCs,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-17 Dao-He Ma , Jin An

We propose a route to achieve odd-parity spin-triplet superconductivity in metallic collinear antiferromagnets with inversion symmetry. Owing to the existence of hidden antiunitary symmetry, which we call the effective time-reversal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-17 Seung Hun Lee , Bohm-Jung Yang

We propose a feasible route to engineer one and two dimensional time reversal invariant (TRI) topological superconductors (SC) via proximity effects between nodeless extended s wave iron-based SC and semiconductors with large Rashba…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-06 Fan Zhang , C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele

Topological superconductors are an intriguing and elusive quantum phase, characterized by topologically protected gapless surface/edge states residing in a bulk superconducting gap, which hosts Majorana fermions. Unfortunately, all…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-10 Kyung-Hwan Jin , Huaqing Huang , Jia-Wei Mei , Zheng Liu , Lih-King Lim , Feng Liu

We analyze the topological properties of the possible superconducting states emerging from a Cd$_3$As$_2$-like, $\mathcal{C}_4$-symmetric Dirac semimetal, with two four-fold degenerate Dirac points separated in the $k_z$ direction. Unlike…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-21 Zhenfei Wu , Yuxuan Wang

The recent phase sensitive measurements in the superconducting $B$-phase of UPt$_3$ provide strong evidence for the triplet, chiral $k_z(k_x \pm ik_y)^2$ pairing symmetries, which endow the Cooper pairs with orbital angular momentum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-20 Pallab Goswami , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

We study the superconductivity of spin-polarized electrons in centrosymmetric ferromagnetic metals. Due to the spin-polarization and the Fermi statistics of electrons, the superconducting pairing function naturally has odd parity. According…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Junyeong Ahn , Bohm-Jung Yang

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

Recent discovery of superconductivity in CeRh$_2$As$_2$ clarified an unusual $H$-$T$ phase diagram with two superconducting phases [Khim et al. arXiv:2101.09522]. The experimental observation has been interpreted based on the even-odd…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-29 Kosuke Nogaki , Akito Daido , Jun Ishizuka , Youichi Yanase

Conventional topological superconductors are fully gapped in the bulk but host gapless Majorana modes on their boundaries. We instead focus on a new class of superconductors, second-order topological superconductors, that have gapped,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-09 Yuxuan Wang , Mao Lin , Taylor L. Hughes

Superconductivity is characterized by vanishing electrical resistance and magnetic flux expulsion. For conventional type II superconductors, the magnetic flux expulsion is incomplete in an applied magnetic field above a critical value and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-04 P. García-Campos , V. O. Dolocan , A. D. Huxley , D. Aoki , K. Hasselbach

Chiral spin-triplet superconductivity is a topologically nontrivial pairing state with broken time-reversal symmetry, which can host Majorana quasiparticles. The recently discovered heavy-fermion superconductor UTe$_2$ exhibits peculiar…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-25 K. Ishihara , M. Roppongi , M. Kobayashi , Y. Mizukami , H. Sakai , Y. Haga , K. Hashimoto , T. Shibauchi

Topological superconductors, characterized by topologically nontrivial states residing in a superconducting gap, are a recently discovered class of materials having Majorana Fermions. The interplay of superconductivity and topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-12 Peng-Fei Liu , Jingyu Li , Xin-Hai Tu , Huabing Yin , Baisheng Sa , Junrong Zhang , David J. Singh , Bao-Tian Wang