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Three-dimensional doped Dirac insulators foster simply connected (in both topological and trivial regimes) and annular (deep inside the topological regime) Fermi surfaces (FSs) in the normal state, and allow on-site repulsions among…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Andras L. Szabo , Bitan Roy

Recent experimental breakthrough in magnetic Weyl semimetals have inspired exploration on the novel effects of various magnetic structures in these materials. Here we focus on a domain wall structure which connects two uniform domains with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-07 Zhao Huang , Christopher Lane , Dmitry Yarotski , A. J. Taylor , Jian-Xin Zhu

Topological superconductivity has attracted intensive interest for its ability of hosting Majorana zero mode and implementing in topological quantum computations. Based on the first-principles calculations and the analysis of the effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Wenjun Liu , Aiyun Luo , Guyue Zhong , Jinyu Zou , Gang Xu

Planar topological superconductors with power-law-decaying pairing display different kinds of topological phase transitions where quasiparticles dubbed nonlocal-massive Dirac fermions emerge. These exotic particles form through long-range…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-17 T. O. Puel , O. Viyuela

We study three dimensional systems where the parent metallic state contains a loop of Weyl or Dirac points. We introduce the minimal $\vec{k} \cdot \vec{p}$ Hamiltonian , and discuss its symmetries. Guided by this symmetry analysis, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-27 Rahul Nandkishore

The hope to realize Majorana fermions at the vortex core of a two dimensional topological superconductor has led to a variety of proposals for devices which exhibit topological superconductivity. Many of these include superconductivity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-05 Aaron Farrell , T. Pereg-Barnea

The modern understanding of topological insulators is based on Wannier obstructions in position space. Motivated by this insight, we study topological superconductors from a position-space perspective. For a one-dimensional superconductor,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-02 Frank Schindler , Barry Bradlyn , Mark H. Fischer , Titus Neupert

We explore higher order topological superconductivity in an artificial Dirac material with intrinsic spin-orbit coupling, which is a doped $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological insulator in the normal state. A mechanism for superconductivity due to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-01 Harley D. Scammell , Julian Ingham , Max Geier , Tommy Li

The band topology of a superconductor is known to have profound impact on the existence of Majorana zero modes in vortices. As iron-based superconductors with band inversion and $s_{\pm}$-wave pairing can give rise to time-reversal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-10 Majid Kheirkhah , Zhongbo Yan , Frank Marsiglio

Superconductivity in topological insulators is expected to show very unconventional features such as $p+ip$ order parameter, Majorana fermions etc. However, the intrinsic superconductivity has been observed in a very limited number of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-29 I. Pletikosic , T. Yilmaz , B. Sinkovic , A. P. Weber , G. D. Gu , T. Valla

We introduce higher-order topological Dirac superconductor (HOTDSC) as a new gapless topological phase of matter in three dimensions, which extends the notion of Dirac phase to a higher-order topological version. Topologically distinct from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-07 Rui-Xing Zhang , Yi-Ting Hsu , S. Das Sarma

We consider three dimensional superconductors in class DIII with a four-fold rotation axis and inversion symmetry. It is shown that such systems can exhibit higher order topology with helical Majorana hinge modes. In the case of even-parity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-11 Nick Bultinck , B. Andrei Bernevig , Michael P. Zaletel

We identify time-reversal symmetry breaking mixed-parity superconducting states that feature eight Majorana corner modes in properly cleaved three-dimensional cubic crystals. Namely, when an odd-parity isotropic $p$-wave pairing coexists…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-11 Bitan Roy , Vladimir Juricic

Using a cryogenic scanning tunneling microscopy, we report the observation of topologically nontrivial superconductivity on a single material of \beta-Bi2Pd films grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The superconducting gap associated with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-06-20 Yan-Feng Lv , Wen-Lin Wang , Yi-Min Zhang , Hao Ding , Wei Li , Lili Wang , Ke He , Can-Li Song , Xu-Cun Ma , Qi-Kun Xue

Higher-order topological superfluids have gapped bulk and symmetry-protected Majorana zero modes with various localizations. Motivated by recent advances, we present a proposal for synthesizing multi-order topological superfluids that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-07-09 Yu-Biao Wu , Guang-Can Guo , Zhen Zheng , Xu-Bo Zou

As one of the simplest systems for realizing Majorana fermions, topological superconductor plays an important role in both condensed matter physics and quantum computations. Based on \emph{ab~initio} calculations and the analysis of an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-06 Gang Xu , Biao Lian , Peizhe Tang , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

A topological superconductor is characterized by having a pairing gap in the bulk and gapless self-hermitian Majorana modes at its boundary. In one dimension, these are zero-energy modes bound to the ends, while in two dimensions these are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-20 Arbel Haim , Yuval Oreg

Non-trivial topology and unconventional pairing are two central guiding principles in the contemporary search for and analysis of superconducting materials and heterostructure compounds. Previously, a topological superconductor has been…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-10 Xianxin Wu , Wladimir A. Benalcazar , Yinxiang Li , Ronny Thomale , Chao-Xing Liu , Jiangping Hu

We show that corner Majorana zero modes in a two-dimensional $p+id$ topological superconductor can be controlled by the manipulation of the parent $p-$wave superconducting order. Assuming that the $p$-wave superconducting order is in either…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-09 Morten Amundsen , Vladimir Juričić

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