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Van Hove singularities (VHSs) in proximity to the Fermi level promote electronic interactions and generate diverse competing instabilities. It is also known that a nontrivial Berry phase derived from spin-orbit coupling (SOC) can introduce…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-06 Xinloong Han , Jun Zhan , Fu-chun Zhang , Jiangping Hu , Xianxin Wu

The spin-orbital polarization of superconducting excitations in momentum space is shown to provide distinctive marks of unconventional pairing in the presence of inversion symmetry breaking.Taking the prototypical example of an electronic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-02 Yuri Fukaya , Shun Tamura , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco

A one-dimensional spin-orbit coupled nanowire with proximity-induced pairing from a nearby s-wave superconductor may be in a topological nontrivial state, in which it has a zero energy Majorana bound state at each end. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 G. Kells , D. Meidan , P. W. Brouwer

We predict that twisted bilayers of 1T-ZrS$_2$ realize a novel and tunable platform to engineer two-dimensional topological quantum phases dominated by strong spin-orbit interactions. At small twist angles, ZrS$_2$ heterostructures give…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-30 Martin Claassen , Lede Xian , Dante M. Kennes , Angel Rubio

New phases of matter can be stabilized by a combination of diverging electronic density of states, strong interactions, and spin-orbit coupling. Recent experiments in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) have uncovered a wealth of…

The topological state of a two-dimensional triplet superconductor may be changed by an appropriate addition of magnetic impurities. A ferromagnetic magnetic chain at the surface of a superconductor with spin-orbit coupling may eliminate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-13 P. D. Sacramento

We study the phase diagram and edge states of a two-dimensional p-wave superconductor with long-range hopping and pairing amplitudes. New topological phases and quasiparticles different from the usual short-range model are obtained. When…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-12 Oscar Viyuela , Liang Fu , Miguel Angel Martin-Delgado

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…

Previous studies have shown that $\text{SU}(4)_1$ chiral spin liquid can emerge in the SU($4$) Hubbard model on triangular lattice. A natural question then arises: What is the phase upon doping? In this work, we show the possibility that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 Lu Zhang , Ya-Hui Zhang , Xue-Yang Song

We analyze various possible superconducting pairing states and their relative stabilities in lightly doped graphene. We show that, when inter-sublattice electron-electron attractive interaction dominates and Fermi level is close to Dirac…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-01-03 Jianhui Zhou , Tao Qin , Junren Shi

We study three-dimensional time-reversal-invariant topological superconductivity in noncentrosymmetric materials such as RhSi, CoSi, and AlPt which host coupled multifold nodes energetically split by the spin-orbit coupling at the same…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-11 Changhee Lee , Chiho Yoon , Taehyeok Kim , Suk Bum Chung , Hongki Min

We demonstrate that superconductivity driven by strong quantum-critical fluctuations can emerge near relativistic Mott transitions in twisted two-dimensional materials, taking on a remarkably rich character. In twisted double-bilayer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-09 Veronika C. Stangier , Mathias S. Scheurer , Daniel E. Sheehy , Jörg Schmalian

We study the superconducting proximity effect in an InAs nanowire contacted by Ta-based superconducting electrodes. Using local bottom gates, we control the potential landscape along the nanowire, tuning its conductance to a quasi-ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 J. C. Estrada Saldaña , R. Žitko , J. P. Cleuziou , E. J. H. Lee , V. Zannier , D. Ercolani , L. Sorba , R. Aguado , S. De Franceschi

We compute the topological phase diagram of 2D tetragonal superconductors for the only possible nodeless pairing channels compatible with that crystal symmetry. Subject to a Zeeman field and spin-orbit coupling, we demonstrate that these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-01-24 Santiago Varona , Laura Ortiz , Oscar Viyuela , Miguel Angel Martin-Delgado

Twisted nodal superconductors have been shown to exhibit chiral topological superconductivity under broken time-reversal symmetry. Here we show how a time-reversal preserving topological superconductivity can be induced in nodal triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-12 Kevin P. Lucht , Pavel A. Volkov , J. H. Pixley

Recent theoretical and experimental studies point to a novel spin-triplet valley-singlet (STVS) superconducting phase in certain two-valley electron liquids, including rhombohedral trilayer graphene, Bernal bilayer graphene and ZrNCl. This…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-17 Benjamin T. Zhou , Shannon Egan , Dhruv Kush , Marcel Franz

Starting from the strong-coupling limit of an extended Hubbard model, we develop a spin-fermion theory to study the insulating phase and pairing symmetry of the superconducting phase in twisted bilayer graphene. Assuming that the insulating…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-20 Xingyu Gu , Chuan Chen , Jia Ning Leaw , Evan Laksono , Vitor M. Pereira , Giovanni Vignale , Shaffique Adam

Searching for unconventional Cooper pairing states has been at the heart of superconductivity research since the discovery of BCS superconductors. In particular, spin-triplet odd-parity pairing states were recently revisited due to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-14 Zi Yang Meng , Fan Yang , Kuang-Shing Chen , Hong Yao , Hae-Young Kee

We consider the effect of spin-orbit coupling on a two-dimensional Kondo Lattice model, in which conduction electrons are antiferromagnetically coupled to a Yao-Lee spin liquid. When a Rashba spin-orbit interaction and a nearest-neighbor…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-07 Zekun Zhuang , Piers Coleman

Recent experiments on the chiral kagome antiferromagnet Mn$_3$Ge have provided strong evidence of proximity-induced spin-polarized superconductivity. We introduce and explore a minimal model which exhibits a rich phase diagram as a function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Adam Yanis Chaou , Gal Lemut , Felix von Oppen , Piet W. Brouwer
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