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We study free fermionic models that host Majorana zero modes using the Majorana orthogonal transformation, which is a type of transformation between different fermionic models under Majorana representation of complex fermions. Using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-08 Jianlong Fu

Motivated by the recent Kitaev's K-theory analysis of topological insulators and superconductors, we adopt the same framework to study the topological phase structure of Jackiw-Rebbi model in 3+1 dimensions. According to the K-theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Shih-Hao Ho , Feng-Li Lin , Xiao-Gang Wen

We propose a general construction of commuting projector lattice models for 2D and 3D topological phases enriched by U(1) symmetry, with finite-dimensional Hilbert space per site. The construction starts from a commuting projector model of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-21 Qing-Rui Wang , Meng Cheng

We study a two-band model of fermions in a 1d chain with an antisymmetric hybridization that breaks inversion symmetry. We find that for certain values of its parameters, the $sp$-chain maps formally into a $p$-wave superconducting chain,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-19 Mucio A. Continentino , Heron Caldas , David Nozadze , Nandini Trivedi

A monolayer of the high-$T_c$ superconductor FeTe$_{1-x}$Se$_x$ has been predicted to realize a topologically non-trivial state with helical edge modes at its boundary, providing a novel intrinsic system to search for topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-27 Xianxin Wu , Xin Liu , Ronny Thomale , Chao-Xing Liu

We propose heterostructures that realize first and second order topological superconductivity with vanishing net magnetization by utilizing altermagnetism. Such platforms may offer a significant improvement over conventional platforms with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Taylor L. Hughes , Jennifer Cano

We study the superconducting instabilities of a single species of two-dimensional Rashba-Dirac fermions, as it pertains to the surface of a three-dimensional time-reversal symmetric topological band insulators. We also discuss the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Luiz Santos , Titus Neupert , Claudio Chamon , Christopher Mudry

After exploring much on two-dimensional higher-order topological superconductors (HOTSCs) hosting Majorana corner modes (MCMs) only, we propose a simple fermionic model based on a three-dimensional topological insulator proximized with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Arnob Kumar Ghosh , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha

After the recognition of the possibility to implement Majorana fermions using the building blocks of solid-state matters, the detection of this peculiar particle has been an intense focus of research. Here we experimentally demonstrate a…

Systems of strongly interacting particles, fermions or bosons, can give rise to topological phases that are not acessible to non-interacting systems. Many such interaction-enabled topological phases have been discussed theoretically but few…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-30 Ching-Kai Chiu , D. I. Pikulin , M. Franz

Topological quantum computation, featuring qubits built out of anyonic excitations known as Majorana zero modes (MZMs), have long presented an exciting pathway towards scalable quantum computation. Recently, the advent of altermagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Themba Hodge , Eric Mascot , Stephan Rachel

We propose a topological field theory for a spin-less two-dimensional chiral superconductor that contains fundamental Majorana fields. Due to a fermionic gauge symmetry, the Majorana modes survive as dynamical degrees of freedom only at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-11-12 T. H. Hansson , A. Karlhede , Masatoshi Sato

A spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ Kitaev sublattice interacting with a subsystem of spinless fermions is studied on a honeycomb lattice when the fermion band is half filled. The model Hamiltonian describes a topological Kondo lattice with the Kitaev…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-08 Igor N. Karnaukhov , Igor O. Slieptsov

In this paper, we construct an exactly solvable lattice Hamiltonian model to investigate the properties of a composite system consisting of multiple topological orders separated by gapped domain walls. There are interdomain elementary…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-14 Yu Zhao , Shan Huang , Hongyu Wang , Yuting Hu , Yidun Wan

We demonstrate that the one-dimensional helical Majorana edges of two-dimensional time-reversal symmetric topological superconductors (class DIII) can become gapless and insulating by a combination of random edge velocity and interaction.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-10 Yang-Zhi Chou , Rahul M. Nandkishore

We present a toy model with a Hamiltonian $H^{(2)}_T$ on a folded one-dimensional spin chain. The non-trivial ground states of $H^{(2)}_T$ are separated by a gap from the excited states. By analyzing the symmetries in the model, we find…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-10 Pejman Jouzdani

Atomic manipulation and interface engineering techniques have provided a novel approach to custom-designing topological superconductors and the ensuing Majorana zero modes, representing a new paradigm for the realization of topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-18 Eric Mascot , Jasmin Bedow , Martin Graham , Stephan Rachel , Dirk K. Morr

Monolayer WTe$_2$, a centrosymmetric transition metal dichacogenide, has recently been established as a quantum spin Hall insulator and found superconducting upon gating. Here we study the pairing symmetry and topological nature of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-07 Yi-Ting Hsu , William S. Cole , Rui-Xing Zhang , Jay D. Sau

We investigate the emergence of topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes in the two-dimensional electron gas formed at the LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ (001) interface. Using a realistic multiband tight binding model that incorporates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Piotr Żeberek , Paweł Wójcik

The importance of models with an exact solution for the study of materials with non-trivial topological properties has been extensively demonstrated. Among these, the Kitaev model of a one-dimensional $p$-wave superconductor plays a guiding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-10 T. O. Puel , P. D. Sacramento , M. A. Continentino