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We investigate the topological phases in a coupled one-dimensional p-wave superconducting Fibonacci quasicrystal modeled by the quasiperiodic Kitaev chain. Recent studies have shown that the coupled system can host topological edge modes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-07 Koki Mizuno

We have investigated the effects of long-range Coulomb interaction on the topological superconducting phase in a quasi-one dimensional semiconductor wire, proximity coupled to a s-wave using the exact diagonalization approach. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Areg Ghazaryan , Tapash Chakraborty

High-order topological phases host robust boundary states at the boundary of the boundary, which can be interpreted from their boundary topology. In this work, considering the interplay between superconductors and magnetic fields to gap the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-29 Xun-Jiang Luo , Xiao-Hong Pan , Xin Liu

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

A pair of counter-propagating Majorana edge modes appears in chiral p-wave superconductors and in other superconducting systems belonging to the same universality class. These modes can be described by an Ising conformal field theory. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 Chang-Yu Hou , Fabian Hassler , Anton R. Akhmerov , Johan Nilsson

The existence of an excitation gap in the bulk spectrum is one of the most prominent fingerprints of topological phases of matter. In this paper, we propose a family of two dimensional Hamiltonians that yield an unusual class $D$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-07-30 Yuval Baum , Thore Posske , Ion Cosma Fulga , Björn Trauzettel , Ady Stern

Classical wave fields are real-valued, ensuring the wave states at opposite frequencies and momenta to be inherently identical. Such a particle-hole symmetry can open up new possibilities for topological phenomena in classical systems. Here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-08 Dafei Jin , Ling Lu , Zhong Wang , Chen Fang , John D. Joannopoulos , Marin Soljačić , Liang Fu , Nicholas X. Fang

Combination of proximity-induced superconductivity and ferromagnetic exchange field in a two-dimensional square-lattice antiferromagnet with spin-orbit coupling and nonsymmorphic symmetry can induce a topological superconductor phase with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-09 Ma Luo

Topological edge states in systems of two (or more) dimensions offer scattering-free transport, exhibiting robustness to inhomogeneities and disorder. In a different domain, time-modulated systems, such as photonic time crystals (PTCs),…

In the context of slow quenching dynamics of a $p$-wave superconducting chain, it has been shown that a Majorana edge state can not be adiabatically transported from one topological phase to the other separated by a quantum critical line.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Atanu Rajak , Tanay Nag , Amit Dutta

We discuss the Josephson effect and the appearance of dissipationless edge currents in a holographic Josephson junction configuration involving a chiral, time-reversal breaking, superconductor in 2+1 dimensions. Such a superconductor is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Moshe Rozali , Alexandre Vincart-Emard

Doped strong topological insulators are one of the most promising candidates to realize a fully gapped three-dimensional topological superconductor (TSC). In this letter, we revisit this system and reveal a possibility for higher-order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-03 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Jennifer Cano , Enrico Rossi , Taylor L. Hughes

We demonstrate that Majorana fermions exist in edges of systems and in a vortex core even for superconductors with nodal excitations such as the d-wave pairing state under a particular but realistic condition in the case with an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-02-11 Masatoshi Sato , Satoshi Fujimoto

Topological superconductors are exotic gapped phases of matter hosting Majorana mid-gap states on their boundary. In conventional topological superconductors, Majorana in-gap states appear in the form of either localized zero-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-10 Junyeong Ahn , Bohm-Jung Yang

We analyze the transport properties of a Cooper pair splitter device composed of two-point electrodes in contact with a ferromagnetic/superconductor (F/S) junction constructed on the surface of a topological insulator (TI). For the pair…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-17 Oscar Casas-Barrera , Shirley Gómez Páez , William J. Herrera

Topological phases feature robust edge states that are protected against the effects of defects and disorder. The robustness of these states presents opportunities to design technologies that are tolerant to fabrication errors and resilient…

We show that one-dimensional electron systems in proximity of a superconductor that support Majorana edge states are extremely susceptible to electron-electron interactions. Strong interactions generically destroy the induced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-07-14 Suhas Gangadharaiah , Bernd Braunecker , Pascal Simon , Daniel Loss

We consider one-dimensional topological insulators hosting fractionally charged midgap states in the presence and absence of induced superconductivity pairing. Under the protection of a discrete symmetry, relating positive and negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-26 Doru Sticlet , Luis Seabra , Frank Pollmann , Jérôme Cayssol

We study the emergence of topological superconductivity in a two-dimensional (2D) Weyl system, composed of stacked Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains. A previous analysis of the model showed that the addition of an attractive Hubbard…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-18 Peter Rosenberg , Efstratios Manousakis

There have recently been several experiments studying induced superconductivity in semiconducting two-dimensional electron gases that are strongly coupled to thin superconducting layers, as well as probing possible topological phases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Christopher Reeg , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja