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Majorana fermions were proposed to occur at edges and interfaces of gapped one-dimensional systems where phases with different topological character meet due to an interplay of spin-orbit coupling, proximity-induced superconductivity and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Eran Sela , Alexander Altland , Achim Rosch

We study one-dimensional topological superconductivity in the presence of time-reversal symmetry. This phase is characterized by having a bulk gap, while supporting a Kramers' pair of zero-energy Majorana bound states at each of its ends.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-15 Arbel Haim , Konrad Wölms , Erez Berg , Yuval Oreg , Karsten Flensberg

The study of Majorana fermions is of great importance for the implementation of a quantum computer. These modes are topologically protected and very stable. It is now well known that a p-wave superconducting wire can sustain, in its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-22 Fernanda Deus , Mucio A. Continentino , Heron Caldas

A primary motivation for studying topological matter regards the protection of topological order from its environment. In this work, we study a topological emitter array coupled to an electromagnetic environment. The photon-emitter coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Wei Nie , Mauro Antezza , Yu-xi Liu , Franco Nori

We theoretically study superconducting proximity effect between a topological insulator (TI) and a high-temperature d-wave superconductor (dSC). When the TI-dSC heterostructure violates 90 degree-rotation and certain reflection symmetries,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-30 Zi-Xiang Li , Cheung Chan , Hong Yao

The topological properties in topological superconductors are usually characterized by the bulk Chern numbers, edge-state spectra, and Majorana zero modes. Whether they are equivalent or inequivalent is not well understood. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Xiao-Ping Liu , Yuan Zhou , Yi-Fei Wang , Chang-De Gong

We discuss the proximate phases of a three-dimensional system with Dirac-like dispersion. Using the cubic lattice with plaquette $\pi$-flux as a model, we find, among others phases, a chiral topological insulator and singlet topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-11 Pavan Hosur , Shinsei Ryu , Ashvin Vishwanath

In this letter we present, in a number conserving framework, a model of interacting fermions in a two-wire geometry supporting non-local zero-energy Majorana-like edge excitations. The model has an exactly solvable line, on varying the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-12 Fernando Iemini , Leonardo Mazza , Davide Rossini , Rosario Fazio , Sebastian Diehl

Twodimensional spin-orbit-coupled Fermi gases subject to s-wave pairing can be driven into a topological phase by increasing the Zeeman spin splitting beyond a critical value. In the topological phase, the system exhibits the hallmarks of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-01-15 K. Thompson , J. Brand , U. Zülicke

We discuss the topological p_x+ip_y superfluid phase in a 2D gas of single-component fermionic polar molecules dressed by a circularly polarized microwave field. This phase emerges because the molecules may interact with each other via a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-08-26 J. Levinsen , N. R. Cooper , G. V. Shlyapnikov

Recently, it has been suggested that topological superconductivity and Majorana end states can be realized in a chain of magnetic impurities on the surface of an s-wave superconductor when the magnetic moments form a spin helix as a result…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-17 Falko Pientka , Leonid I. Glazman , Felix von Oppen

We present a detailed theoretical study of chiral topological superconductor phases in proximity-superconducting graphene systems based on an effective model inspired by DFT simulations. Inducing s-wave superconductivity to quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-10 Petra Högl , Tobias Frank , Denis Kochan , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

Topological superconductivity is currently one of the prime interests, given the properties of its exotic nature of chiral edge states. A broken time-reversal symmetry (TRS) is an essential ingredient in the recipe of a chiral edge state.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-05 Sajid Sekh , Andrzej Ptok

We introduce a one-dimensional non-Hermitian Kitaev chain with staggered imbalance in the $p$-wave superconducting pairing. By tuning the chemical potential and the pairing imbalance, we find that the eigenenergy spectrum undergoes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Xiao-Jue Zhang , Rong Lü , Qi-Bo Zeng

I study the edge states of the topological exciton condensate formed by Coulomb interaction between two parallel surfaces of a strong topological insulator. When the condensate is contacted by superconductors with a {\pi} phase shift across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-07 Babak Seradjeh

We study one-component fermions in chain lattices with proximity-induced superconducting gap and interparticle short-range interaction, capable of hosting Majorana fermions. By systematically tracking various physical quantities, we show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-22 Y. -H. Chan , Ching-Kai Chiu , Kuei Sun

We study the topological properties of the two-body bound states in an interacting Haldane model as a function of interparticle interactions. In particular, we identify topological phases where the two-body edge states have either the same…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-01 Grazia Salerno , Marco Di Liberto , Chiara Menotti , Iacopo Carusotto

Despite extensive experimental efforts over the past two decades, the quest for Majorana fermions in superconductors remains inconclusive. We propose an experimental method that can conclusively confirm, or rule out, the existence of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 S. Forstner , H. Choi , G. I. Harris , A. Sawadsky , W. P. Bowen , C. G. Baker

This paper demonstrates a pathway to topological superconductivity in monolayer triangular lattices through long-range pairing without requiring spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field, contrasting conventional frameworks reliant on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Yizhi Li , Yanyan Lu , Jianxin Zhong , Lijun Meng

Higher-order topological phases are gapped phases of matter that host gapless corner or hinge modes. For the case of superconductors, corner or hinge modes are gapless Majorana modes or Majorana zero modes. To construct 3d higher-order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-13 Ryota Nakai , Kentaro Nomura