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The type II Dirac semimetal PdTe$_2$ is unique in the family of topological parent materials because it displays a superconducting ground state below 1.7 K. Despite wide speculations on the possibility of an unconventional topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-22 Anshu Sirohi , Shekhar Das , Rajeswari Roy Chowdhuri , Amit , Yogesh Singh , Sirshendu Gayen , Goutam Sheet

Many proposals to generate a time-reversal invariant topological superconducting phase are based on imposing a $\pi$ phase difference between the superconducting leads proximitizing a nanostructure. We show that this phase can be induced on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-01 Oscar E. Casas , Liliana Arrachea , William J. Herrera , Alfredo Levy Yeyati

The relative twist angle between layers of near-lattice-matched van der Waals materials is critical for the emergent correlated phenomena associated with moire flat bands. However, the concept of angle rotation control is not exclusive to…

We demonstrate superconducting vertical interconnect access (VIA) contacts to a monolayer of molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$), a layered semiconductor with highly relevant electronic and optical properties. As a contact material we use MoRe,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 M. Ramezani , I. Correa Sampaio , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , C. Schönenberger , A. Baumgartner

We show that introducing spin-singlet or spin-triplet superconductivity into twisted bilayer graphene induces higher-order topological superconductivity. $C_{2z}T$-protected corner states of Majorana Kramers pairs appear at the boundary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-13 Aaron Chew , Yijie Wang , B. Andrei Bernevig , Zhi-Da Song

The search for unconventional superconductivity has been focused on materials with strong spin-orbit coupling and unique crystal lattices. Doped bismuth selenide (Bi$_2$Se$_3$) is a strong candidate given the topological insulator nature of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-01 Tomoya Asaba , B. J. Lawson , Colin Tinsman , Lu Chen , Paul Corbae , Gang Li , Y. Qiu , Y. S. Hor , Liang Fu , Lu Li

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) host deeply bound excitons interacting with itinerant electrons, and as such they represent an exciting new quantum many-body Bose-Fermi mixture. Here, we demonstrate that electrons…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-10-24 Aleksi Julku , Jami J. Kinnunen , Arturo Camacho-Guardian , Georg M. Bruun

In this work, we show that a quasi-one-dimensional $d_{x^2-y^2}$-wave superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling is a topological superconductor (TS). This time-reversal invariant DIII class TS supports two topologically protected zero…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-01-31 L. M. Wong , K. T. Law

Topological superconductors (TSCs) are of significant current interest because they offer promising platforms for finding Majorana fermions. Here we report a new superconductor synthesized by intercalating Cu into a naturally-formed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-19 Satoshi Sasaki , Kouji Segawa , Yoichi Ando

The recent-discovered Sr$_x$Bi$_2$Se$_3$ superconductor provides an alternative and ideal material base for investigating possible topological superconductivity. Here, we report that in Sr$_{0.065}$Bi$_{2}$Se$_3$, the ambient…

We consider a system where structural polymorphism suggests the possible existence of superconductivity through the implied structural instability. SrPd2Bi2 has two poly-morphs which can be controlled by the synthesis temperature: a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-04 Weiwei Xie , Elizabeth M. Seibel , Robert J. Cava

We study the superconducting state of multi-orbital spin-orbit coupled systems in the presence of an orbitally driven inversion asymmetry assuming that the inter-orbital attraction is the dominant pairing channel. Although the inversion…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-06 Yuri Fukaya , Shun Tamura , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco

Ti-based two-dimensional transition-metal carbides (MXenes) have attracted attention due to their superior properties and are being explored across various applications1,2. Despite their versatile properties, superconductivity has never…

The quantum transport properties of graphene and monolayer $MoS_2$ superconductor heterostructures has been of considerable importance in the recent few years. Layered nature of molybdenum disulfide permits the superconducting correlation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Maryam Khezerlou , Hadi Goudarzi

In topological semimetals the Dirac points can form zero-dimensional and one-dimensional manifolds, as predicted for Dirac/Weyl semimetals and topological nodal line semimetals, respectively. Here, based on first-principles calculations, we…

Topological superconductors (TSCs) are correlated quantum states with simultaneous off-diagonal long-range order and nontrivial topological invariants. They produce gapless or zero energy boundary excitations, including Majorana zero modes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-05 Yi Zhang , Kun Jiang , Fuchun Zhang , Jian Wang , Ziqiang Wang

The weak interlayer Van Der Waals material \{beta}-Bi2Pd has recently been established as a strong topological superconductor candidate with unconventional spin-triplet pairing and Majorana zero modes at vortices. In this letter, we study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Xin-Hai Tu , Peng-Fei Liu , Wen Yin , Jun-Rong Zhang , Ping Zhang , Bao-Tian Wang

Motivated by the recent observations of nodeless superconductivity in the monolayer CuO$_{2}$ grown on the Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8+\delta }$ substrates, we study the two-dimensional superconducting (SC) phases described by the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-07-11 Guo-Yi Zhu , Ziqiang Wang , Guang-Ming Zhang

Topological superconductors are gapped superconductors with gapless and topologically robust quasiparticles propagating on the boundary. In this paper, we present a topological field theory description of three-dimensional time-reversal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-29 Xiao-Liang Qi , Edward Witten , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Molybdenum ditelluride, MoTe2, is a versatile material where the topological phase can be readily tuned by manipulating the associated structural phase transition. The fine details of the band structure of MoTe2, key to understanding its…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-19 D. Santos-Cottin , E. Martino , F. Le Mardele , C. Witteveen , F. O. von Rohr , C. C. Homes , Z. Rukelj , Ana Akrap