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Noncentrosymmetric 2D superconductors with large spin-orbit coupling offer an opportunity to explore superconducting behaviors far beyond the Pauli limit. One such superconductor, few-layer T$_d$-MoTe$_2$, has large upper critical fields…

Hybrid structures between conventional, s-wave superconductors and two-dimensional topological insulators (2D TIs) are a promising route to topological superconductivity. Here, we investigate planar Josephson junctions fabricated from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-30 Arman Rashidi , Robert Kealhofer , Alexander C. Lygo , Victor Huang , Susanne Stemmer

Time-reversal invariant $p$-wave superconductors (SCs) are characterized by their $\boldsymbol{d}$-vectors, whose orientations could be manipulated by a tiny magnetic field. We study in this paper the adiabatic pumping process induced by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-07 Jun-Jie Fu , Jin An

Topological insulators embody a new state of matter characterized entirely by the topological invariants of the bulk electronic structure rather than any form of spontaneously broken symmetry. Unlike the 2D quantum Hall or quantum…

Under what conditions does a superconductor inherit topologically protected nodes from its parent normal state? In the context of Weyl semimetals with broken time-reversal symmetry, the pairing order parameter is classified by monopole…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-02 Chiu Fan Bowen Lo , Hoi Chun Po , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

Despite intensive searches for topological superconductors, the realization of topological superconductivity remains under debate. Previous proposals for the topological $s$-wave, $p$-wave, and chiral $d$-wave superconductivity have both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-06 Youichi Yanase , Akito Daido , Kazuaki Takasan , Tsuneya Yoshida

We report the composition and gate voltage induced tuning of transport properties in chemically synthesized Bi2(Te1-xSex)3 nanoribbons. It is found that increasing Se concentration effectively suppresses the bulk carrier transport and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-21 ZhenHua Wang , Richard L. J. Qiu , Chee Huei Lee , ZhiDong Zhang , Xuan P. A. Gao

We propose a general framework for designing a two-dimensional (2D) topological superconductor (TSC) using a magnet-superconductor hybrid system. This setup involves a monolayer of CrInTe$_3$, which hosts noncoplanar magnetic textures, in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-12 Arnob Mukherjee , Fengyi Zhou , Soheil Ershadrad , Tanay Nag , Duo Wang , Biplab Sanyal

The ThIrSi superconductor, with $T_c = 6.5$ K, is expected to show unusual features in view of its noncentrosymmetric structure and the presence of heavy elements featuring a sizable spin-orbit coupling. Here, we report a comprehensive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-17 D. Tay , T. Shang , Priscila F. S. Rosa , F. B. Santos , J. D. Thompson , Z. Fisk , H. -R. Ott , T. Shiroka

Using high-pressure magnetotransport techniques we have discovered superconductivity in Bi2Te, a member of the infinitely adaptive (Bi2)m(Bi2Te3)n series, whose end members, Bi and Bi2Te3, can be tuned to display topological surface states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-23 Ryan L. Stillwell , Zsolt Jenei , Samuel T. Weir , Yogesh K. Vohra , Jason R. Jeffries

Recently, superconductivity has been observed in twisted WSe$_2$ moir\'{e} structures (Xia et al., Nature 2024; Guo et al., Nature 2025). Its transition temperature is high, reaching a few percent of the Fermi temperature scale. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-02 Fang Xie , Lei Chen , Shouvik Sur , Yuan Fang , Jennifer Cano , Qimiao Si

Topological superconductors have been theoretically predicted as a new class of time-reversal-invariant superconductors which are fully gapped in the bulk but have protected gapless surface Andreev bound states. In this work, we provide a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Liang Fu , Erez Berg

The single helical Fermi surface on the surface state of three-dimensional topological insulator Bi2Se3 is constrained by the time-reversal invariant bulk topology to possess a spin-singlet superconducting pairing symmetry. In fact, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-24 P. Neha , P. K. Biswas , Tanmoy Das , S. Patnaik

Superconductivity and its underlying mechanisms are one of the most active research fields in condensed-matter physics. An important question is how to enhance the transition temperature $T_{\rm c}$ of a superconductor. In this respect, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-02 M. Kriener , M. Kamitani , T. Koretsune , R. Arita , Y. Taguchi , Y. Tokura

There have been several proposals for platforms sustaining topological superconductivity in high temperature superconductors, in order to make use of the larger superconducting gap and the expected robustness of Majorana zero modes towards…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-29 Mainak Pal , Andreas Kreisel , P. J. Hirschfeld

Low power consumption in both static and dynamic modes of operation is a key requirement in modern, highly scaled nanoelectronics. Tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) that exploit direct band-to-band tunneling of charges and exhibit…

Superconductivity has been observed in twisted MoTe2 within the anomalous Hall metal parent state. Key signatures-including a fully spin/valley polarized normal state, anomalous Hall resistivity hysteresis, superconducting phase adjacent to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-07 Cheng Xu , Nianlong Zou , Nikolai Peshcherenko , Ammar Jahin , Tingxin Li , Shi-Zeng Lin , Yang Zhang

Disproportionation in 3d compounds can give rise to an unconventional electron-hole Bose liquid with a very rich phase diagram from a Bose metal, charge ordering insulator to an inhomogeneous Bose superfluid. Optimal conditions for the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-12 A. S. Moskvin

Twisted van der Waals materials have risen as highly tunable platform for realizing unconventional superconductivity. Here we demonstrate how a topological superconducting state can be driven in a twisted graphene multilayer at a twist…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Maryam Khosravian , Elena Bascones , Jose L. Lado

Since the very recent discovery of unconventional superconductivity in twisted WSe$_2$ homobilayers at filling $\nu=-1$, considerable interest has arisen in revealing its mechanism. In this paper, we developed a three-band tight-binding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-03 Chuyi Tuo , Ming-Rui Li , Zhengzhi Wu , Wen Sun , Hong Yao