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Topological phases open a door to such intriguing phenomena as unidirectional propagation and disorder-resilient localization at a stable frequency. Recently discovered higher-order topological phases further extend the concept of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-02 A. A. Stepanenko , M. D. Lyubarov , M. A. Gorlach

Higher-order topological phases are gapped phases of matter that host gapless corner or hinge modes. For the case of superconductors, corner or hinge modes are gapless Majorana modes or Majorana zero modes. To construct 3d higher-order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-13 Ryota Nakai , Kentaro Nomura

As platforms of Majorana modes, topological insulator (quantum anomalous Hall insulator)/superconductor (SC) heterostructures have attracted tremendous attention over the past decade. Here we substitute the topological insulator by its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Zhongbo Yan

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

The topological superconducting state is a highly sought-after quantum state hosting topological order and Majorana excitations. In this work, we explore the mechanism to realize the topological superconductivity (TSC) in the doped Mott…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-03 Yixuan Huang , Shou-Shu Gong , D. N. Sheng

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) emerge as edge states in topological superconductors and are promising for topological quantum computation, but their detection has so far been elusive. Here we show that non-Hermiticity can be used to obtain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-25 R. Arouca , Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

It is interesting to ask whether electron interaction can turn a topologically trivial superconductor into a nontrivial one without the presence of spin-obital coupling. In this paper we solve a correlated $s$-wave superconducting model…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-27 Huai-Shuang Zhu , Zhidan Li , Qiang Han , Z. D. Wang

Topological superconductors can support localized Majorana states at their boundaries. These quasi-particle excitations have non-Abelian statistics that can be used to encode and manipulate quantum information in a topologically protected…

In this article we provide a general mechanism for generating interaction-enabled fermionic topological phases. We illustrate the mechanism with crystalline symmetry-protected topological phases in 1D and 2D. These non-trivial phases…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-23 Matthew F. Lapa , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo , Taylor L. Hughes

We investigate the topological phases of two one-dimensional (1D) interacting superconducting wires and propose topological markers directly measurable from ground state correlation functions. These quantities remain powerful tools in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-03 Frederick del Pozo , Loïc Herviou , Karyn Le Hur

We demonstrate a topological classification of vortices in three dimensional time-reversal invariant topological superconductors based on superconducting Dirac semimetals with an s-wave superconducting order parameter by means of a pair of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Pedro L. S. Lopes , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo , Shinsei Ryu

Systems of strongly interacting particles, fermions or bosons, can give rise to topological phases that are not acessible to non-interacting systems. Many such interaction-enabled topological phases have been discussed theoretically but few…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-30 Ching-Kai Chiu , D. I. Pikulin , M. Franz

There are large isotope effects in the phonon kinks observed in photoemission spectra (ARPES) of optimally doped cuprate high temperature superconductors (HTSC), but they are quite different (Gweon et al. 2004) from those expected for a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 J. C. Phillips

Atomic manipulation and interface engineering techniques have provided a novel approach to custom-designing topological superconductors and the ensuing Majorana zero modes, representing a new paradigm for the realization of topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-18 Eric Mascot , Jasmin Bedow , Martin Graham , Stephan Rachel , Dirk K. Morr

Topological superconductors are believed to host exotic quasiparticle excitations known as Majorana zero-modes, with much of the evidence based on BCS mean-field theory. The direct application of mean-field arguments is tenuous in finite,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-03 Jaden Thomas-Markarian , Kartiek Agarwal , Ivar Martin

A higher-order topological superconductor can experience topological phase transitions driven by variations in a bulk parameter without closing the bulk gap. This presents a challenge in establishing a direct bulk-boundary correspondence,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-09 Xiaoyu Zhu

The 1D Kitaev model in the topological phase, with open boundary conditions, hosts strong Majorana zero modes. These are fermion parity-odd operators that almost commute with the Hamiltonian and manifest in long coherence times for edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Loredana M. Vasiloiu , Apoorv Tiwari , Jens H. Bardarson

The discovery of topological order has revolutionized the understanding of quantum matter in modern physics and provided the theoretical foundation for many quantum error correcting codes. Realizing topologically ordered states has proven…

The topological property of a gapped odd-parity superconductor is jointly determined by its pairing nodes and Fermi surfaces in normal state. We reveal that the contractibility of Fermi surfaces without crossing any time-reversal invariant…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-30 Zhongbo Yan

Realizations of Majorana fermions in solid state materials have attracted great interests recently in connection to topological order and quantum information processing. We propose a novel way to create Majorana fermions in superconductors.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-04 Yuan-Ming Lu , Ziqiang Wang