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Twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ near two-degree twists has emerged as a platform for exotic correlated topological phases, including ferromagnetism and a non-Abelian fractional spin Hall insulator. Here we reveal the unexpected emergence of an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-16 Cheong-Eung Ahn , Donghae Seo , Gyeoul Lee , Youngwook Kim , Gil Young Cho

We analyze the topological properties of a chiral ${p}+i{p}$ superconductor for a two-dimensional metal/semimetal with four Dirac points. Such a system has been proposed to realize second-order topological superconductivity and host corner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-07 Apoorv Tiwari , Ammar Jahin , Yuxuan Wang

We investigate the potential existence of a superconducting phase in $5d$ Mott insulators with an eye to hole doped Sr$_2$IrO$_4$. Using a mean-field method, a mixed singlet-triplet superconductivity, $d + p$, is observed due to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-01-30 Mohammad-Hossein Zare , Mehdi Biderang , Alireza Akbari

Despite much effort for over the two decades, the paring symmetry of a Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ superconductor has been still unclear. In this Rapid Communication, motivated by the recent rapid progress in fabrication techniques for Sr$_2$RuO$_4$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-01 S. Ikegaya , K. Yada , Y. Tanaka , S. Kashiwaya , Y. Asano , D. Manske

We determine the optimal conditions to achieve topological superconducting phases having spin-singlet pairing for a planar nanowire with finite lateral width in the presence of an in-plane external magnetic field. We employ a microscopic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-25 C. A. Perroni , V. Cataudella , M. Salluzzo , M. Cuoco , R. Citro

We propose the metallic and weakly dispersive surface states of half-Heusler semimetals as a possible domain for the onset of unconventional surface superconductivity ahead of the bulk transition. Using density functional theory (DFT)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-21 Tilman Schwemmer , Domenico Di Sante , Jörg Schmalian , Ronny Thomale

Twisting two monolayers of a high-$T_c$ cuprate superconductor can engender a chiral topological state with spontaneously broken time reversal symmetry $\mathcal{T}$. A crucial ingredient required for the emergence of a gapped topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-21 Rafael Haenel , Tarun Tummuru , Marcel Franz

Superconductors with an odd number of bands crossing the Fermi energy have topologically protected Andreev states at interfaces, including Majorana states in one dimensional geometries. Superconductivity, a low number of 1D channels, large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 J. G. Rodrigo , V. Crespo , H. Suderow , S. Vieira , F. Guinea

We show that finite angular momentum pairing chiral superconductors on the triangular lattice have point zeroes in the complex gap function. A topological quantum phase transition takes place through a nodal superconducting state at a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-05-30 Sen Zhou , Ziqiang Wang

We investigate topological Cooper pairing, including gapless Weyl and fully gapped class DIII superconductivity, in a three-dimensional doped Luttinger semimetal. The latter describes effective spin-3/2 carriers near a quadratic band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-14 Bitan Roy , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Matthew S. Foster , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

In this work we show that Rashba-based topological superconductor nanowires, where the spin-orbit coupling may change its sign, support three topological phases protected by chiral symmetry. When a superconducting phase gradient is applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Teemu Ojanen

Van der Waals materials like NbSe$_2$ or TaS$_2$ have demonstrated Ising superconductivity down to atomically thin layers. Due to the spin-orbit coupling, these superconductors have the in-plane upper critical magnetic field far beyond the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-10-05 Xiaodong Hu , Ying Ran

Two-dimensional $p+ i p$ superconductors and superfluids are systems that feature chiral behavior emerging from the Cooper pairing of electrons or neutral fermionic atoms with non-zero angular momentum. Their realization has been a…

Modeling the spin-triplet superconductor Sr2RuO4 through a three-orbital tight-binding model we investigate topological properties and edge states assuming chiral p-wave pairing. In concordance with experiments the three Fermi surfaces…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-16 Yoshiki Imai , Katsunori Wakabayashi , Manfred Sigrist

Interfaces between materials with differently ordered phases present unique opportunities to study fundamental problems in physics. One example is the interface between a singlet superconductor and a half-metallic ferromagnet, where Cooper…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-09-22 M. Eschrig , T. Löfwander

In this work, we explore the possible emergence of superconducting phases in a multi-Weyl semimetal. In particular, we show that the presence of a pair of Weyl nodes with chirality $|\nu| \ge 1$ leads to an effective description of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-07 Alonso Tapia , Enrique Muñoz

We study a one-band Hubbard model for a twisted cuprate bilayer with a twist angle of 43.6$^\circ$ and a moire cell containing 58 sites. We use the variational cluster approximation (VCA), which treats short-range correlations exactly and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-08 Mathieu Bélanger , David Sénéchal

We introduce and study a realistic model for superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe$_{2}$, where electron pairing arises from spin-valley fluctuations in the weak-coupling regime. Our model comprises both the full continuum model…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-26 Constantin Schrade , Liang Fu

We theoretically investigate the tunneling conductance of the $d+ip$-wave superconductor which is recently proposed to be realised at the (110) surface of a high-$T_c$ cuprate superconductor. Utilizing the quasiclassical Eilenberger theory,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-02 Yuhi Takabatake , Shu-Ichiro Suzuki , Yukio Tanaka

Spin-triplet chiral p-wave superconductivity is typically described by a two-component order parameter, and as such is prone to unique emergent effects when compared to the standard single-component superconductors. Here we present the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-03 L. -F. Zhang , L. Covaci , M. V. Milošević